Sentences with phrase «as a birth attendant»

Throughout the book the medical practitioner is the default term, as the authors appreciate that the reader may opt for a physician specialty or midwife as their birth attendant.

Not exact matches

But the festival appears to have had a pre-exodus history among pastoral folk as a spring celebration of the birth of the lambs with attendant rites for the consecration of the flocks and probably a communion meal shared by the shepherd group and the deity.

The core of the festival - no doubt known by some other name - may well have been much older than the thirteenth century B.C., originating among pastoral people as a spring celebration of the birth of the lambs, with appropriate attendant rites for the consecration and protection of the flocks, and probably a communion meal shared by the shepherd group and its deity.

Just as when going for a birth in the hospital it makes sense to check and understand the credentials and mind set of your practitioner, the same is true of any home birth attendant.

The only numbers out there on UC include ALL unattended births, such as precipitous births, dumpster babies, and any birth that occurred outside the hospital and in the absence of a professional birth attendant.

As I could determine, none were required, as no one recognized the home birth - based attendant as a credible member of the healthcare infrastructurAs I could determine, none were required, as no one recognized the home birth - based attendant as a credible member of the healthcare infrastructuras no one recognized the home birth - based attendant as a credible member of the healthcare infrastructuras a credible member of the healthcare infrastructure.

We encourage all home birth practices, many of which we are blessed to have as readers on our blog, to implement a debriefing strategy with your attendants.

As a home birth attendant, most practices contract their assistants rather than employ them and I suspect most home birth practices are owned by solo practitioners rather than in partnerships or in a team of clinicians.

In my experience, CNMs are all Ina Mae wannabes who revere her as a patron saint and would gladly attend to home births with all the attendant woo and unicorn sprinkles if their CNM licensure did not prohibit them from doing so.

For certified nurse midwives and other midwives, nearly all, 98 % and 99 %, respectively, of home births were planned home births, whereas almost two - thirds (65 %) of home births attended by «other» attendants were reported as planned.

Yes, a home birth with a competent attendant would be safer than an unattended home birth or an incompetent attendant, but it won't be and can't be as safe as a hospital birth.

There are several different surveys related to home birth and unassisted birth, including surveys for health practitioners, birth attendants, as well as if you've had a home birth or unassisted birth, want to share your thoughts on childbirth literature, intuition in birth, sexuality in birth and birthrape.

As your midwife / birth attendant, I should be viewed as a resource and friend who will share your experience of pregnancy and birth with yoAs your midwife / birth attendant, I should be viewed as a resource and friend who will share your experience of pregnancy and birth with yoas a resource and friend who will share your experience of pregnancy and birth with you.

For example, the fact that 27 transfer patients are listed as having a physician as their planned birth attendant is most likely due to errors in birth - certificate completion; data are currently lacking to inform the degree of misclassification related to this and others factors that affect the study outcomes.

Inclusion criteria were as follows: the study population was women who chose planned home birth at the onset of labor; the studies were from Western countries; the birth attendant was an authorized mid-wife or medical doctor; the studies were published in 1985 or later, with data not older than from 1980; and data on transfer from home to hospital were described.

Most people don't realize that the consensus from the research shows that homebirth is as safe as or safer than hospital birth for low - risk women with a skilled birth attendant.

Women who were classed as not having had a birth attendant were also excluded.

A skilled birth attendant is an accredited health professional — such as a midwife, doctor or nurse — who has been educated and trained to proficiency in the skills needed to manage normal (uncomplicated) pregnancies, childbirth and the immediate postnatal period, and in the identification, management and referral of complications in women and newborns.

When used as transitive verb the OB, the midwife, the cab driver or whoever is the birth attendant is the agent, and the woman giving birth is the patient.

I don't know as much about the american system and would agree that birth attendants need adequate training or they do more harm than good!

«Every single country in the European region with perinatal and infant mortality rates lower than the United States uses midwives as the principal and only birth attendant for at least 70 % of all births.»

But I have a big, big problem with birth attendants misrepresenting their training and abilities and telling expectant parents that home birth is «as safe or safer» than hospital birth when the data shows the exact opposite.

Whatever the studies show for other countries, they show that home birth is not safest as undertaken with the available attendants in the US.

To truly address the reasons why women choose potentially unsafe home birth situations and attendants, we need to look as their — usually unconscious — drive to protect their mental health, when faced with disrespectful, intrusive and abusive medical environments (I'm not saying that all hospitals are like that at all, mine isn't, but it can be a major factor).

Preference to hospital birth for safety reasons is not found in this book, although research supporting homebirth is also absent and while many of Penny's suggestions were implemented into this book (far beyond her expectations), the third chapter recommends the gynecologist as the «ideal» practitioner so women can maintain continuity from well woman care to birth attendant.

The 2nd row shows data on deaths associated with planned OOH births with direct - entry midwives as the planned birth attendants.

As Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at home), that planned home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital birtAs Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at home), that planned home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital birtas safe as or safer than hospital birtas or safer than hospital birth.

I see these «birth attendant doulas» as having practical knowledge and skills and the understanding of when to transfer to another location and when to handle what is in the moment.

A number of non-invasive, non-pharmocological solutions have been shown scientifically to be as effective as active management in lowering cesarean section rates: a companion in labor in the hospital (Thornton and Lilford 1994), midwives rather than doctors as the principle birth attendants in hospital births of women without complications (Wagner 1994), out - of - hospital birth centers (Rooks et al. 1990), and planned home birth (Wagner 1994).

And her birth team included a male midwife as her backup birth attendant.

The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.