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Now that homebirth is on the precipice of being banned given that independent midwives are likely going to be denied indemnity insurance from next year, the suggestion that all women who homebirth are crazy radicals or that homebirth represents the majority of birthing women in Australia (only about 2 %) is ridiculous.

I was able to share my anxieties about me and my wife potentially feeling isolated, as she is from overseas and wasn't going to have her family around her — and it was good to be able to say this without feeling like I was being over-anxious in front a midwife.

Reminiscent of our comments in previous editions, most of you found the best advice about breastfeeding came from friends, La Leche League, childbirth educators, midwives, and books.

Continuity of care midwife, great relationship with knowledgeable midwife, lots of interaction and talking with children about birth and baby, stand ing strong in the face of medical opposition, eating vegies and staying away from sugar and carbs, empowered by Blessingway ceremony, contractions started and stopped, sleep in between, wanting pool but clear about at what temperature, different kind of pushing, more power required and more lucidity, her body knew how to give birth and her baby knew how to be born

While the neonatal nurse practitioner documented excellent notes from our face - to - face report about preceding events, two days later upon discharge, the report read that the baby laid without heart rate and resuscitation efforts for forty minutes under the care of «an alleged midwife» until arrival of paramedics.

As a registered nurse and midwife, homebirthed mother of three, breastfeeding advocate, In making decisions about how to raise my children I read widely, asked advice from a range of professionals, some being medical doctors some being highly trained, skilled midwives.

All the while wailing about the «manhandling» from the midwives and nurses in the hospital.

Also, when she was talking about birthing mothers being elemental forces, which is probably from Spiritual Midwifery, she was not speaking as a doctor or really even a midwife, she was speaking as a student of nature; she's a hippie (duh!)

I think Dr Amy's anger comes from reading story after story about preventable deaths, and preventable permanent injury to infants, month after month, and having the home - birth advocates here in the USA simply ignore the very real risks of homebirth with an uneducated «midwife».

You really don't know the problems about American unlicensed uninsured home birth midwives, yet you come onto the this blog shouting from your soapbox how ignorant we are.

I will refrain from writing my own due to the length of the discussion board as it is, but I do want to express a few thoughts: - Because of the «breast is best» campaign, I firmly believe that even if doctors, pediatricians, midwives et cetera know about the real trouble that many women have BF, they will not say anything so that moms still try.

Information about products is available to the public on the NHS Choices website and from regional health departments and from midwives and health visitors who support families.

It takes longer to recover from a caesarean section and you should wait at least six weeks before you even start to think about exercising; wait until you have had your six week check - up and ask your doctor or midwife for advice about exercising.

My baby is almost 3 weeks and I had to start with formula top ups from about a week in — my midwife said he'd lost too much weight and if we didn't top up with formula he'd have to be hospitalised.

This is an excellent book about birth trauma and it opens one's eyes to the medical field and how some doctors, nurses, midwifes really do not care... The imagery is incredible the poem is well written — more so because it is from your heart and your pain.

The vast majority of laboring women get individual support from a midwife, are free to move about and birth in whatever position feels best, and are rarely induced, anesthetized, or cut.

He latched on almost immediately following his birth, with help from the midwife, though I don't remember how long he nursed for or really much about it at all.

I remember saying to the midwife when she visited the house, about 12 hours after our return from hospital.

If I hadn't joined the message boards at Mothering.com, I probably wouldn't have known that birth is inherently safe and that all that stuff about «risk» was made up by doctors trying to steal business from midwives.

While receiving report from an ER doc about a patient with an ectopic, he told me she had delivered her first child in a water tub with a midwife.

It's About the Relationship Mentoring from a midwife, doula, lactation consultant and peers regarding specific tips and techniques can be helpful to the new mama.

This article talks about another Indiana midwife, along with commentary from Debbie Pulley of NARM about how much training a CPM has.

Nearly 1 in 10 births are attended by a midwife today, up from about 1 in 100 in the mid-1970s.

Midwives dodge any and all responsibility because there isn't proper legislation in place to prevent them from lying about anything they feel like (their credentials, their record, the safety of homebirth, the safety of a specific patients pregnancy, if a transfer was recommended or not, etc).

Also, it is slander to call our midwives «clueless» without knowing them personally, their medical backgrounds, their birth experiences, and getting a firsthand report from them about what happened.

I found a midwife about an hour from my house named Dinah.

Maybe it was a mistake that your wife made to make those postings public, but something good has come out from it because these stories, even though it's painful to be written about, these stories need to be told, because the midwives and home birth community are not talking about these risks.

To acknowledge that the midwife was irresponsible, undereducated or incompetent is to acknowledge that the mother, far from being «knowledgeable» about finding a competent provider, had actually been clueless when it came to determining the midwife's skills.

In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

One of the best bits about a home birth is the level of care you get afterwards from the midwife - it's much better than anything you'll get in hospital.

Last year, they hosted a group of doctors, nurses and midwives from Alabama (where CPMs can't legally practice) so that they could learn more about how legalized midwifery works and to create a greater conversation and collaboration around working together.

Getting back to birth, though, what I would like to see is more birth centers, more midwives like the one in the NPR story, and less of both the «classic» hospital birthing experience and also less of NCB madness like «power birthing» (shudder) that I just this morning learned about from a comment on this blog.

However, the «cult of natural birth» filmmakers were interviewing scientists, perinatologists, nurses, midwives even an OB if I remember correctly about how the foundation of the immune system (the transfer of microbes from mother to baby) might be facilitated through natural birth OR by artificial, mechanical means after a Cesarean birth.

I have been helping women breastfeed their babies for six years, and have been nursing my own children for over eight years, but I am still floored when I hear some of the things women are told about breastfeeding — from their doctors, midwives, friends, grandmothers, Dr. Google, and even other lactation consultants.

I think the concerns of doctors about the safety of homebirth does indeed come from less self interested motives than the lack of concern homebirth midwives show.

Inspired by the home birth of his son (which also included a midwife and birth doula), he created The Dadvocate in 2014 to help dads (and moms) be educated and informed about the many decisions and dynamic changes that come with pregnancy and birth, all the while using humor and raw insight to show the birth world and parenthood from a dad's point of view.

By the end of the 10 days, I was getting compliments about how calm and relaxed we both were, and the midwives were coming into my room to get a moment's peace and quiet from the chaos elsewhere

We must not be deterred from learning as much as we can about our rights and our options in childbirth, no matter how much it may inconvenience midwives or doctors.

For the purposes of the current analysis, we excluded responses about childbirth experiences from outside of British Columbia and about health center nurses and «other» care providers from the dataset, to focus on the three types of primary maternity care providers available in BC (i.e. midwives, family physicians, or obstetricians).

Other than that I feel I have no worries about the labour or birthing process because of my midwife who won't leave my side from the moment I start and my husband who is a very strong individual and can read my body's needs well.

«Most women don't know about their choices,» said Asya Portnaya, 29, and a certified midwife from the Brooklyn Birthing Center in New York.

Find out about these classes from the hospital where you plan to have your baby, your OB / GYN, midwife, friends and family.

In the country's 250 birth centers, midwives tend to take far more time with patients than busy doctors do and the emphasis is on the whole woman — everything from consultations on what a woman should be eating during pregnancy to conversations about anxiety over delivery.

When testifying about possible complications resulting from cord prolapse, she suggested that a midwife's decision to call 911 depends on the «choices of the parents.»

The survey included a number of questions about baby movements, including: when they first felt their baby move; what they would do if they felt their baby moving less; and what would prevent them from calling the midwife.

«We opened up Novant Health midwifery services about two years ago and that was all hospital based deliveries by a midwife, but what we were hearing from our moms was, «Gosh, I really wish I could deliver somewhere other than a hospital,»» said Kirsten Royster, service line leader for OBGYN in Novant Health's Winston - Salem market.

Midwives have obtained consent from childbearing families across North America to provide detailed information about their maternity care.

Maybe highlight this dismal statistic about deaths, even for low - risk birth, and then restructure that with bullets to counter some of the key cliches that moms will parrot from the midwives» salespitch.

Most of this story is from what I directly remember, but there are parts that I was told about afterwards, from my midwife and doula and a friend that was there, filling in the blanks when I was too out of it to fully realize what was going on.

Did you know you can have a lactation consultant, a doula, a midwife, your favorite blogger, or another mom going through exactly what you're going through sitting right across from you in your living room every other Thursday - without having to worry about picking up...