This was at a birth center staffed
by midwives who should have known better.
Birth centers are run
by midwives who are the safest providers for pregnant women and have the lowest intervention rate and best outcomes for mom and baby.
Their partners were usually of the same opinion and this was sometimes backed up
by midwives who told them they didn't need to attend when breastfeeding was being discussed.
the pediatrician should advise her that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and ACOG support provision of care only
by midwives who are certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board
That birth was obviously attended
by midwives who didn't know what they were doing.
The College specifically supports the provision of care
by midwives who are certified by AMCB or whose education and licensure meet the ICM Global Standards.
The AAP recommends pediatricians tell their clients that they «support provision of care only
by midwives who are certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board,» which would be either the certified nurse - midwife or certified midwife (not licensed in Indiana).
A website I found that greatly disturbed me was run
by a midwife who followed the trials of midwives involved in home birth deaths.
Also, I was attended
by a midwife who was there for moral support.
Most home births are attended
by a midwife who has worked with the pregnant woman and her family throughout the pregnancy.
Homebirths are usually attended
by a midwife who has training and experience in caring for mothers and babies at home.
Their legal status varies from state to state, and your insurance company probably won't pay expenses for a birth attended
by a midwife who is unlicensed.
Finally remember at home you are cared for
by a midwife who is trained to view birth as normal.
The 7th son of the 7th son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born
by a midwife who pronounces him dead.
Not exact matches
One of the most unpalatable lessons of history is that evil is often perpetrated
by people
who think they are doing good as
midwives of progress, agents of natural selection, saviors of Christendom — whatever.
Do I want to play pot - luck with whether I get a good
midwife who respects me and listens to me, or one
who is more interested in playing it
by the book and doing things her way for an easy life?
We were inspired to make the film
by the injustice happening to Anna's home birth
midwife, Agnes Gereb,
who had been imprisoned and at the time of filming was under house arrest and facing multiple criminal charges (and even today, four years later, Agnes is still facing multiple charges).
While some folks
who birth at home do so assisted
by professionals, they usually call their births «unassisted» or «independent,» so when I talk about home births in this piece, I'm talking about the kinds attended
by trained
midwives.
In fact, I found a group of
midwife providers
who worked together, so I knew if my
midwife wasn't there for whatever reason, another woman whom I had bonded with would be
by my side, coaching me through the process.
Recently, it is being advocated
by eminent paediatric surgeons and lactation consultants
who see a role for trained
midwives, nurses and lactation consultants in using this simple and effective method of releasing a tight frenum that is inhibiting breastfeeding in neonates.
She had a supportive
midwife and family members
who were there when she was taken away
by the ambulance.
«The AAP in concert with the ACOG does not support the provision of care
by lay
midwives who are not certified
by the American Midwifery Certification Board» (AAP, 2013, p 1019, para 5).
Midwives describe the desire to peel away these fictions of medicalized prenatal care, exposing strong and capable women
who «grow» and birth babies outside the regulatory and self - regulatory processes naturalized
by modern, technocratic obstetrics...
Before I went to the UK in 1974, I remember reading angry articles
by American
midwives who could not see any reason why they could not be permitted to use outlet forceps.
It absolutely trivializes the women
who were actually mistreated
by their medical providers or (in the case of so many
midwives in America) non-medical providers.
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.
All
midwives in Israel MUST be RNs
who have done postgraduate courses in midwifery, pass exams, and be licensed
by the Ministry of Health as
midwives.
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.
The
midwives who participated in this study openly reject the messages of danger, uncertainty, fear, «tentative pregnancy,» doctor - as - ultimate - authority, strangemaking, and even, to some extent, the separation they believe are communicated
by the rituals of medicalized prenatal care...
I have yet to see any
midwife who is destroyed
by the unnecessary death of a child — they all have crap to say about how sad it is that they didn't make it earthside, blah blah blah, but I have yet to see even one of these stories where she takes full responsiblity for her actions or lack thereof.
No cuts and no stitches needed... My daughter before that, I had with a registered
midwife who was supposed to be skilled and I needed 9 stitches and was being lied to
by her and the doctor many many times (and have it in writing too).
A Certified Professional
Midwife (CPM) is a knowledgeable, skilled and professional independent midwifery practitioner
who has met the standards for certification set
by the North American Registry of
Midwives.
I was finally able to convince my daughter to supplement
by bringing a friend
who is a nurse -
midwife to see her and give a second opinion.
I was helped in this
by a couple of phone calls; one from a very eloquent certified nurse
midwife at OHSU, the Oregon Health and Sciences University,
who had tried to transfer a patient to one of our hospitals during labor and received so much flak and criticism and expletives over the phone and there was so much overt hostility that she wound up not pursuing that transfer, which would have been a very important transfer.
When we were eventually united after an hour or so he wasn't particularly interested in breastfeeding and I was terribly frustrated as I was bedridden and was getting different advice from every
midwife who I met but
by this stage I was pretty determined.
«The sheer magnitude of numbers in de Jonge et al. — over half a million
midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or in the hospital — combined with a true comparison group (low - risk, women
who chose hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and hospital groups, attended
by the same group of
midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»
Approximately 83 - 85 % of obstetrical clients are appropriate clients for midwifery - led care (
WHO, 2005;
WHO, 2010), which is best delivered
by midwives in
midwife - led facilities, including homes.
Women
who planned a home birth were at reduced risk of all obstetric interventions assessed and were at similar or reduced risk of adverse maternal outcomes compared with women
who planned to give birth in hospital accompanied
by a
midwife or physician.
The women
who chose nonhospital consulted most with a
midwife, followed closely
by their spouse or partner.
Expectant parents are supported
by our 24 - hour team of our board - certified obstetricians / gynecologists and our certified nurse
midwives,
who are advanced practice nurses specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at Women's Health located in Middlebury, Vermont.
Birthing From Within ® was conceived and developed
by Pam England, MA, CNM, a home birth
midwife and mother
who, inspired
by her own birth experiences, developed this innovative, holistic approach to childbirth and postpartum preparation.
So
midwives need to market themselves or they risk being eclipsed
by obstetricians
who know more and can do more.
By talking to people
who are actually willing to face the possibility that their
midwives fooled them.
I can not imagine that there are not women out there
who have not felt violated
by these practises whether IMG was their
midwife or someone
who believes that she is right and practises this way.
She was being stitched up
by her
midwife at home (the one
who wields Super Glue) so her MIL went to the hospital.
Getting holistic prenatal through postpartum care and birthing in one's own home attended
by a skilled
midwife, is a refuge for those
who want to protect the normalcy and sanctity of pregnancy and birth.
And
by the way, my main problem is not even the fact that there are
midwives who are downright dangerous (although you can be sure my father would not have appreciated having the cinnamon gal at my mother / s second birth, the lovely natural birth of a 10 - pounder when she almost bled to death).
The home birth community seems to be inhabited
by singularly callous people,
who find that it is worth ostracising and ignoring loss parents, sacrificing other people's (and sometimes even their own) babies, and protecting dangerous
midwives, all for the sake of avoiding any kind of discussion whatsoever of the risks and benefits of home birth.
We analyzed 8 outcomes of child health (neonatal deaths, prenatal deaths, Apgar...», or even «The findings suggest that homebirths attended
by midwives may be equally safe if not safer for women with low - risk pregnancies», which could mean «safer for women»
who have «low - risk pregnancies» or equally «safer» for «women
who have low - risk pregnancies».
All women attended
by an NHS
midwife during labour in their planned place of birth, for any amount of time, were eligible for inclusion with the exception of women
who had an elective caesarean section or caesarean section before the onset of labour, presented in preterm labour (< 37 weeks» gestation), had a multiple pregnancy, or
who were «unbooked» (that is, received no antenatal care).