Sentences with phrase «when midwives»

Then the myths are perpetuated that women can't have babies safely without all these gadgets when midwives like Ina May who has participated in peer reviewed studies has proven that for MOST women these things are not needed.

¨ I still had no urge to push when the midwives asked me to turn onto my back, and bring my baby out.

When midwives consider homebirth safety, we are concerned with the mother's emotional, as well as physical, well - being.

When we midwives bemoan our high c - section rate, we often focus on how women can give birth vaginally.

When midwives talk about «safety,» too often they are talking about avoiding c - sections.

When your midwives had you provide informed consent to give birth at home, did they inform you that there are complications that can arise spontaneously in low - risk women that could result in the death of your son or yourself that could be more safely managed in hospital?

Policy makers and healthcare providers should be aware that such benefits are conferred when midwives provide intrapartum care in hospital settings and also where midwives provide continuity through pregnancy and childbirth.

We spend a lot of time in the prenatal period discussing signs of labor as well as labor coping methods and what to expect when your midwives arrive at your home.

When midwives are obliged to provide prospective homebirth parents with informed consent and to tell them that their choice increases the risk of death and / or disability to their child.

I watched in awe at the hospital those first few days postpartum when midwives could swaddle newborns so quickly and there would never be any issues of them wriggling out.

When midwives and obstetricians work together as a team, both using their unique skills, knowledge, expertise and training, the outcomes for moms and babies are far superior.

Only when midwives and obstetricians start working in partnership, and valuing each other's roles in supporting women, do we see women offered genuine choices, and offered the best care for themselves and their unborn baby (One example of research supporting this: Colter 2014, «Midwife - Physician collaboration — a conceptual framework for inter-professional collaborative practice»).

The difference is that when midwives screw up they aren't accountable.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

When midwives regularly advise hospital transfers to tell the hospital a lie - you know, when it REALLY matters that the truth is told, why the hell would anyone trust them to tell the truth about anything?

My longed - for home birth was derailed when the midwives changed shift.

When my midwife, Melissa, held him up, I was in complete shock!

We carried on like that until day 10 when the midwife came out and said that I must be very tired expressing for every feed, so we gave it one more go and he actually did it!

When the midwife feels the time is right she may ask you a few gentle pushes and the delivery itself is usually painless.

I never though I was going to need a Doula when my midwife told me my husband said will be fine because the midwife is coming with and assistant but when the time came having Esther it was such a blessing we set our minds to have her in all our future births.»

I understand so much more now than ever, when my midwife (who also happened to be a lactation consultant) immediately recommended that we supplement with formula for both our boys when they began to lose more weight than normal in the first few days of life.

If these conditions could not be met, the mother and baby could not be discharged from hospital after 48 hours but had to stay for 10 days [when the midwife's legal responsibility ended], and of course a home birth was ruled out.

What wasn't so lovely was when the midwife couldn't actually find the heartbeat.

One baby born at home had a low Apgar score but responded rapidly when the midwife gave bag and mask resuscitation.

When the midwife rated the general practitioner as supportive there was a higher rate of home delivery (66 of 94 cases; 70 %) than when the general practitioner was rated as unsupportive (45/83; 54 %).

I've had midwives claim they weren't at a birth when another midwife says they were.

I was birthing the child when my midwife arrived and the entire situation was calm and right.

When a midwife who has nearly lost hospital privileges and couldn't tell an obstructed labour to save her life continues to practice, promising she is a safe provider while not acknowledging that she has been sanctioned by her own College, when really she is actively continuing to lie to women and they pay with their bodies, how is that feminist?

If there is a good connection between the mom and the birth attendant, when the midwife tells the mother to get into hands knees on the floor and push real hard to get the shoulders out, she does so quickly.

When this midwife is some day able to see with clear eyes what she has done, I can't imagine that she will be able to deal with herself.

When the midwife listened to the message, she heard Alexia crying in the background before my mom even spoke.

That could explain instances of limp, unresponsive babies in home birth deliveries when the midwife says the heart tones were «fine.»

However, during the last 10 years of that period, when the midwife was always the community lead professional, mortality in this subgroup was lower in those booking for home delivery (1/1890 v 410/370 722).

When our midwife arrived, I was still feeling as in control as someone could feel in a birth:) Our midwife was very hands - off, which was helpful.

Mum had three kids in the 1960s - was very grateful to her male OB for some kind of knockout drug for a fair bit of my delivery; said the same doctor, as he stitched a bad tear caused when the midwife repeatedly ignored mum's cries for someone to come as my brother was born, told the midwife off and explained the damage her neglect had caused.

When a midwife allows a woman to labour

I got checked early in the afternoon when my midwife first got there, and I was at a 3, 50 %, and very squishy.

When my sister planned a home birth in NYC, she was very reassured when her midwife told her in the first interview that she had never (or maybe very rarely) done an * emergency * hospital transfer — her (relatively frequent) transfers to the hospital happened long before the point where it became an emergency.

Although this skill will be useful, it is best done after the birth of the baby, when a midwife can help you learn how to express breast milk and store it safely.

When my midwife came in to check on me, she asked if I'd tried to feed him yet, and I panicked.

My mom had suggested I get in the tub, and that's where I was when my midwife walked in.

One study suggests a higher cost, and one study no differences in cost of postnatal care when midwife - led continuity of care is compared with medical - led maternity care.

Hopefully he will meet your midwife there and will see some of the procedures done to you, so later he will be more comfortable when the midwife is touching you at birth.

Hoonie and his parents were not upset when the midwife showed him to them.

When a midwife's care falls below the accepted standard of practice in the medical community and a child is injured or dies in the process, they can (and should) be held liable for the damage that their incompetence has caused.

Not exact matches

When she became pregnant and a midwife instructed her not to lift packages over 20 pounds, Young asked to return to UPS to do either light duty or her regular job as a truck driver, which seldom required her to lift heavy boxes.

«When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.»

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When it comes to deciding whether or not a person should breastfeed or not, if they're unsure about their options, the best person to go to for advice would be a licensed nurse midwife, though most levels of healthcare for women should be able to offer suggestions for the best path for an expecting mother to follow.

When I found my midwife half way though my first pregnancy I jumped ship immediately.