And shows how either untruthful they are (since if they read through them, they would understand that the studies aren't
about midwives like them) or stupid (didn't read them at all, but liked what they saw and think it makes them look better)
Not exact matches
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.
They are so totally clueless
about how their own behavior comes across that homebirth midwives like Wendy Gordon, CPM, MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) executive, can actually write an inadvertently hilarious blog post like this: Why ALL Midwives Should Care About What's Going On With Midwifery Internati
about how their own behavior comes across that homebirth
midwives like Wendy Gordon, CPM, MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) executive, can actually write an inadvertently hilarious blog post like this: Why ALL Midwives Should Care About What's Going On With Midwifery Intern
midwives like Wendy Gordon, CPM, MANA (
Midwives Alliance of North America) executive, can actually write an inadvertently hilarious blog post like this: Why ALL Midwives Should Care About What's Going On With Midwifery Intern
Midwives Alliance of North America) executive, can actually write an inadvertently hilarious blog post
like this: Why ALL
Midwives Should Care About What's Going On With Midwifery Intern
Midwives Should Care
About What's Going On With Midwifery Internati
About What's Going On With Midwifery International.
Please be sure to include your
midwife's name, some information
about why you
like her, her location, her coverage area and her contact inforamtion.
I'd
like a natural birth, but my husband is worried
about an in - home
midwife.
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).
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me
about homebirth advocates
like yourself is that you appear to have absolutely no idea that homebirth
midwives are a second, inferior class of
midwife that would not be eligible for licensing in any other first world country.
I'd also
like to thank all of the
Midwives,
Midwife Students, OBs, nurses, and doulas for all of their help and being so supportive
about having these moments filmed and photographed.
I hated the class where we went over what to do in the event of infant loss (let's just say I got a bit emotional and had to bury my wet face in Andy's shirt for awhile), but
like my
midwife said, it's good to talk
about it.
If you already know what kind of birth you would
like to have, or are thinking
about an alternative birth, discuss this with your
midwife.
Just another homebirth baby who was «fine» right up until it dropped nearly dead into the hands of the clueless
midwife... just
like the other 18 homebirth babies I have written
about in the past 3 years who died in the same way.
So it just boggles my mind that a lay person who knows next to nothing
about childbirth thinks she can hire herself out as a
midwife, risk the lives of her clients and their infants and then dust off her hands and say «oh well» when something
like this happens.
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.
I was picky
about midwives and I always had a backup plan because I think safety is important and we should use the technology we have when we DO need it (and I ended up needing it) but I definitely felt
like having the opportunity to birth outside of a clinical environment was important to me.»
Dr. Danny Singley: So we cover things
like that in the expectant dads class and we also get down to real brass tacks
like you know, folks want to know
about Core Blood Banking and getting a Doula, a
midwife or daddy nesting...
why do we always talk
about how to make hospitals more
like homebirths having recognised that private
midwives have lots to offer but do nt give them access to stuff that makes hospitals record safety.
Did the Pro
Midwives talk
about making it
like, IDK, Not Happen Again?
And I wanted you know, if it was gonna happen I wanted to keep going and so you know, went to bed at night and I woke up
about 2 am in the morning and I was
like «Okay, this is the real deal» and I called my
midwife about 7.30 am saying «Okay, I am on an intensity
about 8 out of 10 so I think we definitely have to meet.»
I don't know for certain what other testing my friend received prenatally (I know she didn't get ultrasounds, but I'm unsure
about GBS, RH or the
like)- but it does sound
like her
midwife, at least, isn't a total whackadoodle.
The
midwife on call told me that from what the monitors said, it seemed
like the baby's heart rate during contractions was almost identical to my heart rate, and they were concerned
about whether the monitor was picking up the correct one.
Current patients who would
like to meet with
midwives as they prepare for labor and birth and anyone else interested in learning
about pregnancy and...
I read
about everything from the highly medicated «twilight births» that were popular at the beginning of the century to «unassisted births» which were gaining popularity in the last few years (unassisted birth is basically the mother / father and her chosen team delivering at home without the assistance of a trained professional
like a doctor or
midwife).
I anticipate these are the kinds of skills and abilities you are seeking in a Nurse
Midwife, and would
like to meet with you to talk
about this further.
It's super important that you
like your doctor or
midwife and feel comfortable talking honestly with them
about what kind of pregnancy and birth you want to have.