Sentences with phrase «as a midwife for»

«As a midwife for the last 14 years I have worked in many areas of maternity care, the last few years concentrating on antenatal and postnatal care.

She has worked as a midwife for almost 25 years both in England and in the Edmonton area (Birth Choices Midwifery, Shared Care Maternity Program, Westside Midwives).

She blessed my life by serving as a midwife for my fourth child after a previous rough birth.

I have a background in the Healthcare industry, am trained in Hospice Care and serve as a Midwife for the... View Graduate

I practiced exclusively as a midwife for seven years before I made the decision to return to practicing as a naturopath full time.

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New Democrats have long been advocating for the expanded use of midwifery services across the province as we believe that midwives play an integral role in the health care system and can be of particular benefit to women, families and First Nations communities by bringing specialized maternity care to otherwise isolated areas.

The other sort of qualification necessary for being a teacher is the possession of personal gifts for the indirect «teaching» that, as a midwife, helps another come to gnosis.

As Loren Mead says, «We are being called to be midwives for a new church, working to help our present forms and structures give birth to forms appropriate for the new mission of the church.»

More to the point, just as William Paley, in his perverse way, acted as a kind of accidental midwife to Darwin's theory, so too I think the speculations of Michael J. Behe and William A. Dembski (and others, many of whom belong to the Discovery Institute) will lead not to a more robust theism but to a new impetus to find adequate explanatory laws for chemical complexity.

I pray for spiritual midwives in your life, women who will breathe alongside of you as you are giving birth to the new you over and over again.

The other is a set of personal gifts for the indirect «teaching» that, as midwife, helps another come to personal appropriation of revealed wisdom.

We are all ultimately human and even as doulas it only takes one really bad experience for us to decide whether or not we like a doctor or midwife.

Under their socialized medicine I'm entitled even as outsider to a midwife delivery but for me that sounds like something out of the backwoods.

It should not be used as a substitute for the advice of a medical professional (doctor or midwife).

The largest study of its kind has found that for low - risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a midwife.

Tomorrow evening, Jan. 2, barring any late - breaking big news stories, ABC's 20/20 is set to air an episode featuring segments on long - term (extended) breastfeeding, as well as home birth (both with and without midwives), serial surrogates (women that have numerous babies for other women), «fake babies» (life - like dolls), and orgasmic birth.

Under the guidance and assistance of the midwife, the opportunity is available for husbands or partners to «catch» their child as it is born.

As a nurse, midwife, or doula, you spend a lot of your time concerned for other people's needs, leaving your own to the wayside.

However, after being awake for only 30 minutes this morning, both kids were in tears, Ava was melting down repeatedly and, as much as I wanted to see my midwife, I didn't think a social event would be in anyone's best interest — us or anyone in attendance.

Guest Blogger: Maria Layne has a strong passion for women's health and is trained as a midwife and OB nurse.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

She doesn't believe in routine circumcision, but has seen many circumcised boys in her years as a midwife, and even acted as a mohel for a while.

As a healthy, able - bodied mama living in a safe home that's close to a nearby emergency room if it was needed, birthing at home with trained midwives was a great option for me.

She trained with Birth Arts International for her Labor Support Training and is completing her midwife assistant training with them as well.

Whaaaaaaaaat??!! I managed to get in touch with all three midwives and, guess what, none of them were available for my due month as they already had women on their books and my dates were also slap bang in the middle of summer and that was holiday time.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives (ACNM) calls for the utilization of written practice guidelines within each practice setting, as part of the Standards for the Practice of Midwifery.

We need to ensure that midwives are competent in caring for mothers and babies in emergency situations, as well as to provide a safe, sanitary environment in which to practice if the social stigma is going to change.

I was encouraged by her arguments for this movement, and was grateful that our ideas resonated so perfectly, as my attempts to think through this idea with homebirth midwives in previous years proved to be a catastrophically failure.

The findings, which began as a thesis written by a midwife at a Swedish university, most likely ring true for men at any stage of fatherhood.

I always appreciate finding midwives who are fighting for standards for the sake of improving safety and midwifery as an option.

is that women be respected as full, empowered participants in their pregnancies and births; that babies be born into an atmosphere of love and reverence; that midwifery be recognized as the standard of care for all healthy women during the childbearing year; and that midwives support each other with as much passion as they support their clients, lifting each other up to maintain and improve the quality of care provided to birthing women and their families

Home Birth Home Birth is rapidly gaining popularity as parents learn that it is a safe and reasonable option for low risk pregnancies with trained midwives.

Her bed had been raised by putting beer crates underneath it (raising the bed is stand ard practise in The Netherland s as it facilitates things a bit for the midwife and also puts the bed at a good «lean - on» height for labouring mama).

As we mentioned in How To Prepare Your Best For Your Home Birth, most of our local Registered Midwives strongly encourage their home birth clients to hire a doula.

It seemed too often I was learning the hard way, and as importantly, I felt I was accumulating a tremendous amount of knowledge that should be documented and shared with fellow midwives who also had vision for establishing their own independent practices.

As midwives we are independently practicing health care providers and are experts in caring for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

For me, that meant just my midwives and my husband, surrounded by candlelight and music that helped me stay relaxed and energized as needed.

Who do homebirth - based midwives turn to for support when most everyone fails to appreciate our role as an advocate, the advocate to a client who no longer appreciates our efforts?

I am so thankful for the good midwife we have found, as well as the incredible assistants she has, and also for the good birth experiences.

Birth centre, decided to hire a midwife for continuity of care, used birth pool, stayed at home as long as she could, very clear about continuity of care, in birth centre used birth pool, believed in herself and was very determined to have natural birth

This country needs to frigging catch up with the rest of the developed world and have legal consequences for these charlatans posing as «midwives».

These reconstructed «natural facts,» while equally socially embedded relative to more medicalized perspectives, are seen by midwives as essential components of the foundation needed for «trusting birth outside the hospital» once labor begins.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

as my midwife said, all babies need is arms for warmth and comfort, and breasts for food.

The Director of Medicine at the hospital I work for refers to certified midwives as being an important factor to reforming health care and increasing accessibility to care.

CDC data shows that neonatal mortality is about half as high with CNM and «other» midwives (there's no direct entry of homebirth category) as it is for MDs for all births, as well as by weeks gestation.

Homebirth midwives petitioned for and were granted an extension until October 15, and as the date drew near, they petitioned to postpone the requirement for informed consent until January 1, 2012.

The midwife would be a freaking criminal for accepting the mother as a client with this appaling distance alone.

There isn't any home visiting by a district midwife as in the British system, but pregnant women do not pay for any maternity care.

These are the changes envisaged: • comprehensive new information about the changes produced and given to both parents • midwives encouraged to inform parents about registration — and the benefits of both parents» signing • the opportunity for fathers to register ante-natally in the health service records alongside the mother • training for registrars in the new way of engaging with both parents • community outreach to reach fathers as well as mothers • an «acknowledgement of paternity» event at the birth where father and mother could jointly sign a form.