I had
heard about this midwife before, but not that she had delivered a footling breech at home.
If not before, you will certainly
hear about a midwife as soon as you get pregnant.
Not exact matches
It wasn't until I had given birth to my daughter, officially joined the «mommy club,» and made some mommy friends of my own that I began to
hear more and more
about midwives and learn
about the role that they play in helping women prenatally, during birth and postnatal.
Do
midwives ever talk
about being able to
hear it or not?
I am a student
midwife at the hospital that Ceri works at and I am so excited
hearing good things
about the awesome MGP program there.
If you want to
hear the three little words «BREAST IS BEST» over and over again, go to any website
about breast feeding or even better, get your
midwives and health visitors to say it to you even more times than they already have....
Over the years as a homebirth - based
midwife, I've
heard many ignorant statements
about the risks of homebirth.
I have
heard great things
about the
midwife group at Mount Auburn, but that is where my father and grandparents died, so I didn't want to be in that thinking space in labor and delivery.
Listeners have the opportunity to learn more
about Delivering Strength's mission and its co-creator's wellness journeys,
hear a great pregnancy and birth story
about an unmedicated hospital birth overseen by the
Midwives at Lake West Hospital, and learn
about postpartum thyroid concerns with Dr. Jerrica Sweetnich, an Akron - based Naturopathic Doctor.
Add on top of it the stories of incompetence that we have
heard about for
midwives doing homebirths, and these things would be an actuarial disaster.
I have been helping women breastfeed their babies for six years, and have been nursing my own children for over eight years, but I am still floored when I
hear some of the things women are told
about breastfeeding — from their doctors,
midwives, friends, grandmothers, Dr. Google, and even other lactation consultants.
You may have
heard your
midwife or lactation specialist talk
about the «let down.»
Everything I'd read and
heard leading up until the birth was
about how important breastmilk was for you baby («Breast is best»), and then all of a sudden all the health professionals I saw (GP,
midwife, lactation consultant etc.) were saying «don't worry
about it, just give him formula».
I stayed for a little while, chatting with her family and
hearing all
about how proud they were of her and grateful they were to her
midwives and staff at the birth center.
Just talking to the
midwives and
hearing how intelligent they were and competent on childbirth really helped him feel confident
about using a birth center and midwifery care.
«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.
I have
heard first - hand stories of women being denied epidurals, lied to
about the effects of epidural analgesia, and not being provided with proper informed consent
about the risks of going to 42 weeks at her 41 week appointment (as in, the mother wasn't told anything that was in the College of
Midwives» sample consent document
about increased risk of stillbirth).
I once
heard a terrifying story of a birth that went wrong: A woman was
about to give birth under the supervision of a
midwife but her baby was facing the wrong way.
As a student
midwife in AZ, I have
heard the same argument
about not being educated from the medical camp too.
I get to
hear directly from
midwives about the issues they and their patients are facing every day
The bothersome and irritating thing
about the way The
Midwife is written is that we keep
hearing detail after detail and story after story
about the shared history between Claire and Béatrice, but we never get a solid idea of what that history was.