I needed her to talk to me about justice and jubilee, about Isaiah and Exodus,
about midwives and women on the edge.
At the time I didn't know much
about midwives — who they were, what they did — and was happy enough with my OB, so I didn't bother finding out more information.
It wasn't until I had given birth to my daughter, officially joined the «mommy club,» and made some mommy friends of my own that I began to hear more and more
about midwives and learn about the role that they play in helping women prenatally, during birth and postnatal.
Midwifeinfo.com www.midwifeinfo.com All
about midwives with links to birthing and alternative birthing information.
Asking
about my midwives and plans for my birth team was nice, but it was also nice that instead of asking who was going to «deliver» my baby, they were recognizing that I was the one doing the work, and asking about who was going to help make sure I stayed safe.
We can't have it both ways — if we complain
about midwives making bad choices that put mothers / babies at risk, then we should be glad that they are transferring women to hospital care before an emergency arises, instead of making fun of them for transferring care.
Instead of ranting
about midwives maybe you and your colleagues need to catch up with the rest of the developed world?
Midwifery is as midwifery does — and before being pressed very hard by this recent report, Cathy Warwick who's one of the FACES of midwifery showed that she only cared
about midwives» employment.
What are their thoughts
about midwives and homebirth?
After all, what's so special
about a midwife attended birth?
There is no real way to get anything done
about midwives acting in negligent ways.
Q: This story is only about you, not
about ALL midwives.
The woman whose baby she caught said NOTHING about her baby, was only talking
about her midwife.
I had heard
about this midwife before, but not that she had delivered a footling breech at home.
There are several types of midwives with different types of training, so it's important to learn
about a midwife's experience and certification before choosing to work with her.
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)
What is particularly infuriating about the situation is that BY DEFINITION, homebirth midwives should ONLY be attending to women with no risk factors, yet again and again we read
about midwives who refuse to transfer women out of their care when red flags develop.
Additionally, it is important to inquire
about the midwife's philosophy of care.
I've often wondered the same thing
about the midwives who continue to practice and take no responsibility for deaths or accidents of women / babies in their care.
NNAMDIWelcome back to our conversation
about midwives and homebirth in the wake of a well - publicized case in the Washington area in which a midwife was prosecuted after a baby died in childbirth.
Did you read the post
about midwives going overseas to «help» these women in impoverished countries?
I have heard great things
about the midwife group at Mount Auburn, but that is where my father and grandparents died, so I didn't want to be in that thinking space in labor and delivery.
I started writing
about the Midwives Alliance of North America and their campaign to hide their death rates more than 5 years ago, back in August of 2006.
It's all
about midwives» fine sensitivities.
best part
about my midwife.
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.»
I also think you misunderstood, I don't believe bloggers have any control, it's more
about the midwife, woman and healthcare institutions.
hahahahaha, Liz Paparella reported this exact thing
about her midwife and was told that (certain) midwives aren't covered by HIPAA.
SHERAH: i think you are confusing skepticism
about midwives with skepticism about home births.
One of my closest friends raved and raved
about a midwife.
If not before, you will certainly hear
about a midwife as soon as you get pregnant.
I know that women planning a hospital birth may not want to read
about midwives and home births but those of us with midwives are seriously looking for articles that aren't all about hospitals and doctors.
We think these common myths
about midwives may have something to do with it.
Right before we left, my husband reminded me to ask her to check me (this was the first time I'd had to «drop my bottoms,» and I was nearly 39 weeks pregnant - just one of the things I loved
about my midwife).
It is
about midwife nuns in post-WWII London.
Bohjalian's 1997 book
about a midwife accused of murder (by performing an emergency c - section) is one of my favorite courtroom novels of recent memory, pitting doctors against midwives and townspeople against one another — all the while raising plenty of ethical dilemmas.
There are some very serious issues that many people do not know
about midwives.
Not exact matches
So I told my
midwife about my dreams.
This work that you've
midwifed is
about to head out into the wild to do what it was meant to do or needs to do.
I have an essay I'm halfway working on
about mission theology in Call the
Midwife — I really should finish it.
But one of the things I've always loved
about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write
about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the
Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses
about this stuff.
The books andwebsites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of «the baby», my
midwife talks
about listening to the baby's heartbeat and at the 12 - week scan, the time at which the majority of abortions are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my baby's head and spine and tiny hands were pointed out on a screen.
Following the visit, the royals learned
about a new innovative training centre for nurses,
midwives and paramedics at Coventry University.
Gut / / The Omnivore's Dilemma / / Hot Lights, Cold Steel / / Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs / / The Night Shift / / The Secret Language of Doctors / / Call the
Midwife / / Blood, Bones & Butter / / Madness, Rack, and Honey / / How Not to Die / / What I Talk
About When I Talk
About Running / / The Third Plate / / The Red Parts / / The Argonauts
This is the second time in recent months I've found myself talking
about coconut oil, the first being with an off - duty male
midwife who my wife and I ran into at Wal - Mart one night, and that conversation somehow steered it's way into the realm of natural birth.
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.
I had ZERO idea
about the serious risks associated with an epidural and was not the slightest bit educated
about home birth or the use of a
midwife / doula.
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 just delivered my second last week and was thankful to have a
midwife who cared
about our birth plan.
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.