I continued working as
an OB Nurse in that hospital.
She has over 21 years of experience as a home birth midwife, after previously working as
an OB nurse in the hospital.
Not exact matches
As your best guarantee of having a normal vaginal birth once you're
in the
hospital, we suggest that you plan
in advance to have helpers — mate, doula, and perhaps a monitrice (your personal
ob nurse)-- with you.
Having such an obvious obstetric risk factor means giving birth
in a nasty
hospital with machines and interventions and eebil
nurses and
OBs who will cut you open so they can get home to dinner.
Let's not sugar coat reality too much by saying if a baby dies
in hospital it's never the
OB or
nurse or surgeon's fault.
Um, yes, an obstetrician works
in a
hospital, and when a baby is born
in need of immediate care, the
OB hands him or her off to a neonatal rescucitation team, made of pediatricians and
nurses who handle this sort of thing every day.
With my daughter, born
in a
hospital with a midwife, we used the vacuum to get her out and by that time, there was the
OB, the resident, my midwife and 2 - 3
nurses.
In our area, the midwives have good relationships with both the local
OBs and
hospital nursing staff.
Miriam's medical and education background includes: teaching prenatal classes and
nursing students
in the classroom and clinical setting, coordinating an
OB department, and working as the
Hospital Obstetric Consultant which included policy writing and continuing education for all obstetric staff.
What is absolutely critical is that health professionals, i.e.
ob / gyns, pediatricians, and
nurses in the
hospital are either trained to accurately assess IGT, or to refer mothers to quality IBCLCs.
The
hospital had a great lactation specialist and I had a good friend as my
OB nurse so I was
in a comfortable learning environment for learning to latch both kids.
She was an
OB nurse practitioner when she had her first two children, so she felt she had a pretty good handle on what to expect and how things would go
in the
hospital.
In a hospital birth the two patients each have their own doctor (OB [or CNM] and, if needed, neonatologist or pediatrician) and nurse and / or other assistants (e.g. residents), plus a whole team ready to run in and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's notic
In a
hospital birth the two patients each have their own doctor (
OB [or CNM] and, if needed, neonatologist or pediatrician) and
nurse and / or other assistants (e.g. residents), plus a whole team ready to run
in and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's notic
in and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's notice.
My
nurse - midwife this go around is more highly trained than either of the midwifes who delivered
in the
hospital and is over seen by the best
OB in the South East.
My 3rd pregnancy a yr later went great normal pregnancy but 2 months before I had my son I had a staph infection but I was free of a staph infection when he was born but the
nurses found out my joy turned to a living nightmare no
nurse would take care of me my son wasn't allowed
in the nursery only good thing that came out of it but me being a epileptic I needed daily medication for my seizures my
ob / gyn for some unknown reason told me to bring my meds from home not normal procedure its against
hospital rules but I did as he told me and thank god I did or I would have died my sons
nurses were the only
nurses I saw my whole weekend
in the
hospital they could only take my vitals and give me the basics pain meds & stool softener they fed me too if not for them I would have starved they brought me my
hospital food its dangerous for a epileptic after birth to be denied food meds and regular monitoring because stress from the birth could make me seize but they didn't my
ob told them flat out I was not infected and to remove me from isolation but they refused.