Sentences with phrase «delivered by a midwife»

But labour moved quickly and less than an hour after arriving at the hospital, she was safely delivered by our midwife at 2:16 p.m. after 5 hours of labour.

I saw an OB the whole pregnancy, but was delivered by a midwife.

The number of women in the United States whose babies were delivered by midwives increased by 33 percent between 1996 and 2006.

The statistic is that a higher PERCENTAGE of babies delivered by midwives die.

In 2006, 61 % of home births throughout the country were delivered by midwives — 16 % by certified nurse midwives, and 45 % by other midwives.

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.

When I was delivered by a midwife when I born in Guyana, South America, there was only one choice, the midwife.

We were to be cared for and delivered by midwives, but a doctor would be available should an emergency arise.)»

Imagine that, a doctor learning from the midwives... One of my attendings from medical school (he was the head of OB / Gyn) has all four of his children delivered by midwives.

Baby death significantly higher for those delivered at home or in a freestanding birthing center when compared to those delivered by midwives in the hospital: Term neonatal deaths resulting from home births: an increasing trend

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

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.»

I was even delivered by a midwife which I had always wanted.

Not exact matches

That was my experience in hospital in Australia with my last baby — although my little boy was delivered by two midwives and not an OB (he had examined me when i came in for the induction and been consulted on a couple things throughout the labour).

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.

You will be able to discuss the advantages of VBAC with your midwife or doctor if your last baby was delivered by caesarean.

So, I would hope a woman would consider the possibility of complications and choose to deliver her * first * at a birthing center run by midwives, next to a hospital.

I stand by my assertion that the vast majority of women would choose to give birth in a hospital if they could not find a midwife willing to deliver high risk patients at home.

Midwifes that deliver in the hospital still get the same compensation; only the room has to be paid for by the expectant mother.

A nurse midwife delivered my baby a year ago, but it was the ob standing by who sewed up my tear.

- midwife tried to deliver baby by applying fundal pressure - midwife cut an eposiotomy while baby was at +1 station, then sewed it back up when the baby did not deliver and before transport to ER - mother was uncooperative and combative to staff at Hopkins, refusing to give medical history, refusing to consent to C - section, and refusing blood draw.

Women resident in the Northern region who expected to deliver in 1993 and whose request for home birth had become known to one of the local supervisors of midwives were asked to help with the study by their local community midwife.

Plenty of respected research supports the safety of planned home birth (most recent large prospective trial published in the British Medical Journal), but for women who need to deliver in a hospital due to a complication, the midwife stays by your side and adopts a doula role.

Limited retrospective information was also collected by the community midwives on all the other mothers delivering outside hospital in 1993, which was validated against the birth registration returns made to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (now the Office for National Statistics).

Information on each case was collected by six anonymised Freepost questionnaires designed to collect factual and attitudinal predelivery and postdelivery information from the woman, her general practitioner, and her midwife irrespective of where she eventually delivered.

I love my natural baby delivered by a loving midwife!!

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Unfortunately, the stories here tend to include high - risk women who were encouraged by (usually) under - qualified midwives to deliver at home.

The absolute risk of a baby having a 5 minute Apgar of zero is 0.16 per 1000 for those delivered by MDs in hospital, and 1.63 per 1000 for babies delivered by «home midwife» (CPM in most cases).

«We have to do everything to ensure the comfort of women and the safety of their children, so ultimately they must be allowed to make the choice between having their baby delivered by a doctor or a midwife,» she said yesterday.

By the time the labor nurse and midwife attended the mother and delivered the baby, the infant was blue and unresponsive.

Pulling on the cord was first recommended by Mauriceau in 1673, who feared that the uterus might close before the placenta was spontaneously delivered.21 In fact, the recumbent (lying) postures, increasingly adopted under doctor's care meant that spontaneous delivery of the placenta was less likely: the upright postures that women and midwives have traditionally used encourage the placenta to fall out with the help of gravity.

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.

Though you might think your doctor or midwife is where you should start, it is possible that your baby will not be delivered by your regular provider, so it is important to know about the hospital's overall rate.

But midwives say women are not encouraged by their doctors to explore alternatives such as birthing centers, where low - risk women can give deliver naturally, balancing technology with a home - like environment.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, followed 5,418 women expecting to deliver at home in 2000 with the aid of midwives certified by the North American Registry of Mmidwives certified by the North American Registry of MidwivesMidwives.

What happens in Missouri is being closely watched by both sides: midwifery advocates who argue that childbirth is not a medical emergency and that women should be able to deliver at home with a certified midwife, and members of the medical establishment who argue that home births without physicians are perilous ventures for mothers and babies.

The subjects comprise the 1 percent or so of U.S. women who deliver outside of a hospital with the assistance of midwives each year; by comparison, 70 percent of births in Europe and Japan are midwife - attended.

Twelve hours after labour began Alexander was delivered by forceps in front of an audience of student midwives and doctors.

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.

The new Illinois amendment was spurred by the case of midwife Betty Peckmann, who was charged with practicing without a license in Illinois in connection with the death of an infant that she delivered in 1988 in Taylorville.

By the early twentieth century doctors supplanted midwives in delivering babies, who now entered the world more often in hospitals than in homes.

«We opened up Novant Health midwifery services about two years ago and that was all hospital based deliveries by a midwife, but what we were hearing from our moms was, «Gosh, I really wish I could deliver somewhere other than a hospital,»» said Kirsten Royster, service line leader for OBGYN in Novant Health's Winston - Salem market.

As a nurse midwife I love delivering babies, but I also love the fact that if something goes wrong I know I have the in - house OBGYN & NICU team close by.

The role of non-nursing trained midwives in New Zealand is dogged by controversy such as the feature article in North and South Magazine in August 2011 «A failure to deliver» [9]

My nurse - midwife this go around is more highly trained than either of the midwifes who delivered in the hospital and is over seen by the best OB in the South East.

In the midwife - attended hospital group, 162 (28.4 %) clients had their babies delivered by physicians, 4 (0.7 %) by nurses and one (0.2 %) by «other.»

Results: Newborns delivered by other midwives or certified nurse midwives (CNMs) in a birthing center or at home had a significantly higher likelihood of a 5 min maximum Apgar score of 10 than those delivered in a hospital [52.63 % in birthing centers, odds ratio (OR) 29.19, 95 % confidence interval (CI): 28.29 — 30.06, and 52.44 % at home, OR 28.95, 95 % CI: 28.40 — 29.50; CNMs: 16.43 % in birthing centers, OR 5.16, 95 % CI: 4.99 — 5.34, and 36.9 % at home births, OR 15.29, 95 % CI: 14.85 — 15.73].

Intention to deliver at home or hospital was identified through documentation supplied by midwives to the HBDP.

Registered midwives are mandated to offer women the choice to deliver in hospital or at home if they meet the eligibility criteria for home birth defined by the college (Box 1).