Having attended births at all of the hospitals in the Triangle area in addition to birth center and home births, I am comfortable working with
your birth team of a midwife or doctor, nurses, and support partner to help you feel calm and empowered throughout your labor and birth.
Not exact matches
In terms
of your health care providers, «some families
birth unassisted, while others have a
team of midwives and a doula,» says Maria Moser, a writer who chronicles her home
birth story at Change Diapers.
The thing that I loved most about my
birth experience was having a
team of midwives and a doula.
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.
To that end, I had chosen my obstetrician carefully: the only one in the Greater Cincinnati area at that time who specialized in natural
birth, having as well a
team of certified
midwives and offering a home
birth option.
I know there's no way to truly tell what would've happened had my entire pre-natal care leading up to
birth been with a
midwife and the intention
of a home
birth, but in thinking it all through I realized that I was going to have to trust one thing or the other: my own body, with no quick access to modern medical technology, or a
team of medical staff with all
of the equipment possibly needed.
This type
of care includes care in the community from a
team of midwives, caseload midwifery or independent
midwives and can include antenatal care, home
birth and postpartum care options such as early transfer home.
Together with Mary Jackson home
birth midwife they have developed a system for evaluating the needs
of pregnant mom's, their babies and the father that involves establishing «two layers
of support» to the baby, the mother, the father and also the
birth team.
I met with a
team of midwives from a practice called
Birth Matters Midwifery Care.
Home
Birth Opting for a planned home birth means your lead carer will be a self - employed community midwife (SECM), who may be part of a team or may work independe
Birth Opting for a planned home
birth means your lead carer will be a self - employed community midwife (SECM), who may be part of a team or may work independe
birth means your lead carer will be a self - employed community
midwife (SECM), who may be part
of a
team or may work independently.
Michelle had called the rest
of our home
birth team by this point and Allie, her assistant, and Gillian, our secondary
midwife, were there when I made it back out to the living room.
Lakeland Midwifery Care is a
team of Florida Licensed
Midwives providing holistic pregnancy,
birth, and prenatal and postpartum care to families throughout the Lakeland, Tampa Bay, and Central Florida areas.
I am incredibly glad I have a
team of intelligent
midwives and a very caring and supportive obstetrician helping me throughout my pregnancy and
birth and not someone like you!
But I armed myself with an arsenal
of resources and educational materials, and a rock - star
birth team (an experienced and skilled
midwife, a doula and my husband).
Throughout the entire pregnancy and
birth, I was carefully monitored by an extremely competent and devoted
team of midwives, and I knew that having a home -
birth was a privilege I would enjoy only if I remained a low - risk patient.
Owned by Certified Nurse
Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Mary Mumford Haley, the
team of midwives at RI Home
Birth provide personalized care for the childbearing years for all pregnant people, and proudly care for families in the collaborative and empowering tradition that midwifery embodies.
A
team of three
midwives, one
of whom would go on to deliver all three
of the Williams children, decided that Deedee, then 30, was a healthy candidate for a home
birth.
Midwife - led continuity models provide care from the same midwife or team of midwives during the pregnancy, birth and the early parenting period, and many women valu
Midwife - led continuity models provide care from the same
midwife or team of midwives during the pregnancy, birth and the early parenting period, and many women valu
midwife or
team of midwives during the pregnancy,
birth and the early parenting period, and many women value this.
I am a Montreal - based
midwife, looking forward to the adventure
of relocating to Edmonton to work with the Lucina
Birth Center
team!
Comparison 2
Midwife - led versus other models
of care: variation in midwifery models
of care (caseload / one - to - one or
team), Outcome 3 Instrumental vaginal
birth (forceps / vacuum).
This study compared
birth centre care - characterised by comprehensive antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care, on the same premises with a home - like environment and the same
team of midwives - to the standard obstetric care divided into antenatal care at neighbourhood antenatal clinics, intrapartum care in hospital delivery wards, and postpartum care in hospital postpartum wards.
Comparison 2
Midwife - led versus other models
of care: variation in midwifery models
of care (caseload / one - to - one or
team), Outcome 2 Caesarean
birth.
Comparison 2
Midwife - led versus other models
of care: variation in midwifery models
of care (caseload / one - to - one or
team), Outcome 6 Preterm
birth (< 37 weeks).
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).
This means that while a doula is part
of your
birth team, they do not replace an OB or a
midwife.
A
midwife is the medical professional
of the
birth team.