Sentences with phrase «by a midwife because»

I wanted my baby delivered by a midwife because I felt very strongly that unless something goes wrong, birth is not a medical procedure.

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I had unmedicated childbirth with a doula and a midwife and a perinatalogist by my side because of some complications my daughter developed.

That wasn't working so I started taking Gaia Lactation Support that I bought from Whole Foods because it was highly recommended by local midwives.

Standards outlined by the AAP for care of the neonate are possible in an out - of - hospital settings, including homebirth, although because homebirth practices do not have an accreditation body similar to the American Association of Birth Centers there is no way to assure that any particular homebirth midwife or practice provides any certain standard of care.

My wife and I had our first 2 in a hospital and it almost killed them because of the drugs they forced on my wife the last 2 were born at home in a pool the 1st homebirth we had a midwife present the 2nd one the midwife was an hour and a half late so I delivered our daughter by myself it was awsome and now my wife is PG with our 5th baby we have the same midwife who was late to our last birth and we already know she is not going to be here ontime mostly because she lives 2 hours away from where we live and we are ok with this.

My healthy baby died because the midwife at the birth center did not pick up the falling heart rate and by the time I was blue - lighted to a hospital, it was too late to resuscitate my boy.

Most midwives do know when it's time to transfer because something has gone wrong, which by the way would go wrong at a hospital.

I nearly lost my first grandson because my daughter's midwife was adamant that she not supplement with a bottle even though her son was not latching on well and by the second day was becoming lethargic.

Sometimes those areas need to be avoided completely because of complications, when recommended by your doctor or midwife.

I was assuming you were in B.C. And I am intensely curious about this, because the integration of trained midwives in the system is lauded by so many people.

If I had been seeing one of these fly - by - night homebirth midwives my child probably would have died anyway because his ultrasound looked «great.»

However, because of changing societal ideals, by the beginning of the 20th century, the number of pregnancies assisted by a midwife began to decline dramatically in the United States.

If you need Rhogham because your baby is Rh Positive it will be administered by the midwife.

If a government - run health service decides to seriously restrict the practice of midwives, then a woman's right to choose a home birth becomes a moot point because even if she can secure the services of an Independent Midwife, or if she qualifies for one of the handful of hospital - led home birth schemes (known as DOMINO)-- she will not genuinely be «allowed» to make this choice because midwives are not covered by insurance to attend these births.

The reason there's no difference is because midwives and lactation consultants are afflicted by the same problem that bedevils right wing trolls: cognitive dissonance.

For my first birth, which was attended by a midwife in a hospital, I brought along a doula because my mother lives overseas, so I wanted an advocate — and she was indeed very helpful.

They may not have chosen to report one absolute risk because they look to have had two low - risk hospital birth cohorts, those attended by OBs and those attended by hospital midwives.

It's self - serving because «normal birth» is defined as what midwives can do autonomously, not by what is best for babies and mothers.

The girls got a «tour of the placenta», guided by one of our midwives, which was ironic because one of them was missing a school health test to be there.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

This time I've been being seen at a birth center by a nurse and their midwives, but not sure we'll stick with it because of the concerns with out of hospital birthing.

The Illinois attorney general on Wednesday filed suit against a midwife for continuing to deliver babies after she was ordered last summer by a state agency to stop because she was not a doctor or certified nurse.

Because the birth center is run by a doctor, White and the other midwife who works there are the only midwives legally practicing outside of hospitals in Missouri.

I have friends who lost their babies to preventable home birth accidents, attended by negligent midwives, and yet other friends who have lost babies because they refused induction of labor against the advice of their medical provider.

You are confusing certified nurse midwives, who have nursing degrees and usually an advanced degree with a focus on obstetrics, with lay midwives, whose level of regulation varies by state, but they mostly operate in a legal grey zone where they aren't regulated because they specifically aren't medical professionals, but then they promote themselves as having the training to handle just about anything.

If you know of any midwife that has had her license taken away by one of those board a, please let us know, because we have never heard of a single case.

I'll also fight tooth and nail against doctors and midwives breaching the standards of their profession by attending high risk women at home because «else she'd just go unattended!»

The mother's narrative of «home birth saved my baby» is largely in error due to both the mistakes made by the midwives that made the situation worse, not better — and because the intensive cooling therapy that saved Freddy's life and brain had nothing at all to do with midwives, and everything to do with hospital care.

Because doctors can't sweep this information under the rug, there are public records of what happen, but you read those Hurt by Homebirth stories and see how many times a perfectly nice wonderful BFF of a midwife then turns into a complete bitch when the birth goes wrong and they fear that there might be some sort of legal repercussion or bad press for them.

Direct entry midwives practice illegally, because certification that is required by state law is not available.

Because both home and hospital births were attended by the same cohort of midwives, we were able to conduct a true comparison of planned place of birth unconfounded by type of caregiver.

It is truly remarkable how closely this adheres to Shackel's explanation of logophobia: midwives shouldn't be constrained by rationality, because rationality does not support many of the claims of midwifery.

Right from the maternity ward, mums get the opportunity to learn her own magic tricks to keep her baby happy, while men are often excluded by midwives and even turfed out because visiting time is over.

Women are continuing to choose home birth, says Grunebaum (who was himself delivered by a midwife), because, «they are misled with misinformation about its safety.»

He was sent to the NICU because of a fever (which was due to the epidural) and I was sent to recovery afer a failed VBAC attempt attended by midwives.

We have used the term «midwifery - led» rather than «midwife - led» because we anticipated that some of the interventions, while constituting midwifery care, would involve care given by practitioners other than those holding an internationally - recognised qualification as a midwife.

He nearly wept because he did not envisage he was going to be made powerless in a Party where he was State Chairman and which he midwifed to the Government House by defeating a gradually incumbent moribund AD Party.

Because Dr. Bowker does not have hospital privileges, initial newborn exams are typically done by the hospital pediatrician or midwife (in the case of a home or birth - center birth).

I have been advised by my midwife that because of my age (42), I «won't be allowed» to go over 41 + 4 for fear of my baby's placenta not working properly after this gestation.

Many of these are preventable and occur because of negligence or improper procedure by doctors, nurses and midwives.