PKU and Supplemental Screening: This blood test for the baby will be
done by the midwife at your home 2 days after the birth.
You envision this opening, just like you have been guided to
do by your midwife.
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?
It's good that medical care and trained professionals now exist and give mums the option and ability to take advantage of the medical care, but to
do a complete U-turn so that ALL women should be forced to have medicalised births attended
by midwives or doctors, is damaging and unfair.
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.
I hope that those that
do are thoroughly educated
by their
midwife or doula and are sure that's what they want.
Second time around with my son i planned a home birth and it all happened very quickly so my
midwife actually missed the birth
by seconds which meant we had a completely undisturbed birth again, my husband caught him, my body
did what it had to
do, both births were amazing and very calm.
The authors
do inform readers that when studies are excluded from the analysis that include births attended
by uncertified or non-nurse
midwives that the odds ratio for neonatal death between home and hospital births is no longer statistically significant (Wax, 2010).
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.
Unfortunately, the authors
did not reference this statement and the nurse - midwifery profession has grown to the point that it could potentially prove that the majority of out - of - hospital births today are in fact, attended
by certified nurse -
midwives.
This
does not just cover medical appointments but also includes antenatal or parenting classes if they have been recommended
by your doctor or appointed
midwife.
However, seventeen percent of healthcare plans
do not cover primary care services offered
by nurse -
midwives, even though ACNM standards defining the scope of practice for these providers include primary care services.
«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).
Smarty Tourtle that means that 90 % of homebirths in US are attended
by midwives that are so lacking in skills and training that they would not be allowed to come near pregnant women anywhere else in the developed world, and if you
did not know that please learn more before you accuse people on here of being inflammatory.
It
does not contain soley homebirths attended
by midwives.
Lately
midwives from the UK, Australia and New Zealand have been parachuting in and
by their comments, show that education
does not
do any good if you believe birth without interventions should be the goal and pain relief is bad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I wonder if you're practicing as
midwife underground in a state where you're not licensed, if you sort of
by default don't report your income, since what you're
doing isn't a legal profession?
In the ward the
midwife did my lo's blood and said in the nastiest of all tones «if you
do nt get his blood sugar up we will have to suppliment with formula», she then proceeded to «help» me
by insisting i lay on my side, flat, and grabbed my boob and babys head and shoved them together.
So
midwives need to market themselves or they risk being eclipsed
by obstetricians who know more and can
do more.
I was swept away
by the BOBB and believed I could avoid a c - section
by my diet, using a
midwife,
by «
doing everything right» and «trusting my body».
That birth was obviously attended
by midwives who didn't know what they were
doing.
When my son was 2 weeks the
midwife advised I supplemented with formula which I
did and
by the time he was 7 weeks old I had virtually no milk and gave up altogether.
Lots of people don't seem to really care about the individuals hurt
by the inadequacies of homebirth
midwives and other alternative health providers / advocates.
If a
midwife was paid in advance, what extra service is she or he providing
by doing the transfer and / or
by staying with the mother in the hospital?
The second sentence in the abstract
does state: «Analysis of combined data from all 8 studies showed a three-fold increase in risk of neonatal deaths for homebirth attended
by midwives, compared to hospital births.»
Did the
midwives forecast for a potential cooling situation and begin that process
by removing all sources of heat?
When you suggest that it's a victim's fault that she believed a state - authorized health - care provider was competent to care for her, you're repeating what
midwives themselves often say when shirking responsibility: that if an individual woman was not satisfied with the care provided
by an incompetent provider, that it was her own fault for not
doing her research.
, the AAP in concert with the ACOG
does not support the provision of care
by lay
midwives or other
midwives who are not certified
by the American Midwifery Certification Board.
Fetal monitoring is
done by both a
midwives and doctors at home births, birth center births or hospital births.
I feel like it has been proven
by science that not breathing will kill you... But what
do I know... I'm no
midwife.
They also don't comment on whether hospital births attended
by a
midwife were transfers or were intended to be hospital births.
-
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.
One thing I don't see... when they refer to a hospital birth attended
by a
midwife,
does that include births that started at home and ended up in the hospital?
Screening for various prenatal issues, especially if there seems to be an indication that there may be a problem, can be ordered
by a
midwife, eliminating the need to spend hours waiting for an appointment with the doctor in order to get the screening
done.
How can you trust that homebirth is safe when the most comprehensive study ever
done of homebirth (and analyzed
by a
midwife) found that PLANNED homebirth with a LICENSED
midwife has a death rate approximately 800 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth, and even MANA can't figure out how to criticize it?
HER
MIDWIFE THOUGHT A TEAR THROUGH HER ANUS
DID N'T REQUIRE REPAIR
BY A DOCTOR!
I am well - connected within the hierarchy of The Big Push for
Midwives, and feel as if I am
doing all I can at this time to obtain licensure in all 50 states, which should come with oversight
by a joint midwifery / MD / consumer panel.
I was told to come to Mount Carmel hospital at 8 am on the morning which I
did, I was examined and was told I was 2 cm dilated so I had started labour naturally, my consultant broke my waters this time though it was explained to me exactly what was going on
by the most wonderful
midwife in the world, Karen..
In North Carolina home birth is legal, however it has to be attended
by a certified nurse
midwife; and you also
do parallel care with a supportive OB — for us it was UNC family medicine, where you
do labs, ultrasounds and any further testing.
As far as I know, you
did the math right and the non-DEM deliveries include all comers, i.e. free births, CNM attended, OB attended, attended
by a doula, dolphin
midwife, whatever else people can think up.
It's self - serving because «normal birth» is defined as what
midwives can
do autonomously, not
by what is best for babies and mothers.
«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.
Sometimes it is
done by a doctor at the hospital where you gave birth, your
midwife or a public health nurse.