Sentences with phrase «hospital by midwives»

In a study presented at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in New Orleans, researchers will report that patients delivered at home by midwives had a roughly four times higher risk of neonatal deaths than babies delivered in the hospital by midwives.

Doctors there reported that babies born at home to midwives have four times the risk of neonatal deaths than those delivered in the hospital by midwives.

Not exact matches

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.

By now you may have gathered that instead of choosing to have an OB - attended hospital birth this time around, we are planning to have a midwife - attended homebirth.

What we need is a maternity care system in which ALL low - risk pregnancies are followed by midwives - and then we should be offering a choice for home, hospital or birth centre locations.

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.

The filmmakers set out to look at alternatives to hospital births attended by a doctor, such as midwife deliveries in hospitals, homes or birth centers.

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.

Hutton EK, Reitsma AH, Kaufman K. Outcomes associated with planned home and planned hospital births in low - risk women attended by midwives in Ontario, Canada, 2003 — 2006: a retrospective cohort study.

However, a few years later, my daughter was taking an EMT course at the same hospital and was told by her mentor that there is a «local midwife that brings women in from out of state to birth here so she can sell their babies.»

After a diagnostic ultrasound with an OB at the delivery hospital, I was placed in the group that is low risk enough to be cared for primarily by midwives during delivery.

These reconstructed «natural facts,» while equally socially embedded relative to more medicalized perspectives, are seen by midwives as essential components of the foundation needed for «trusting birth outside the hospital» once labor begins.

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).

If you choose an accredited birth center, you'll be cared for by licensed professionals, usually a midwife and a nurse, with a backup hospital nearby and a doctor on call in case of an emergency.

We have a birth center that is wildly popular with the younger generation (like in their 20's) it's run by a lay midwife, and our hospital birth center takes in their patients whose births are going wrong.

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.

From 1994 - 2008 she served on the Board of Directors of a Joint Underwriting Association created by the Washington State legislature to provide medical liability insurance to midwives providing out - of - hospital birth services.

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.

Those cafés, which are resourced by experienced midwives from King's College hospital, are a vital resource for new nursing mothers.

And, unlike an epidural which requires a hospital birth and the presence (and a bill from) an anesthesiologist, nitrous oxide can often be offered at a birth center by a midwife.

The typical scenario would be that something had gone dreadfully wrong and the community midwives, after exploring their options, would finally, and receiving nothing but hostile response from the various hospitals, would have the patient transported to the hospital by ambulance and then they would all bolt and just leave the patient in the emergency room and to the care of whoever was on emergency call.

I came by natural birth honestly - my mom had unmedicated births and three of those were out - of - hospital births with midwives.

My babies tongue tie was diagnosed by the Midwife while we were still in the hospital.

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.

«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).»

The authors concluded that the decision to plan a birth attended by a registered midwife at home versus in the hospital was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death.

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.

Independent midwives are insured and just like the staff you would encounter on the maternity unit in hospital they are regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

By the same token, your independent midwife can refer you to a consultant if you need it, or arrange for you to be transferred to hospital should it become necessary during a home birth.

Indeed a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Perinatology analyzed homebirths attended by a certified nurse midwife (CNM) and found that they had double the risk of neonatal death of CNM attended hospital births, even though the hospital birth cohort included high risk patients.

If you are cared for by a midwife they come and assess you at home when you go into labor even if you are planning on a hospital birth (unless you choose to go right in and meet them there but most midwife clients want to be at home as long a possible from what I understand).

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.

She was being stitched up by her midwife at home (the one who wields Super Glue) so her MIL went to the hospital.

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?

Your midwives saw to it that was maintained as well by not warning you that all of the data on homebirth in the US show a 3 - 8x higher risk of the baby dying in homebirth than in hospital birth.

This birth center was unique in that it was completely unattached to a hospital, or a medical board of directors, and was one of only a handful in the nation to be solely owned and run by non-nurse midwives.

The other interesting aspects of this article are the possible anecdotal evidence for one of the benefits of free birth over a birth with an unskilled midwife, possible resulting in a false sense of security - she realised something was wrong and went to hospital - and also the description of the birth - the first twin's head essentially becoming trapped by the second twin - which seems to match something Attitude Devant raised as a possible complication of first twin breech, in one of the Lisa Barrett threads.

There were no significant differences in outcome of home or hospital births attended by midwives for the other child health measures.

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.»

It will now be easier for hospitals, physicians, midwives, and epidemiologists to sort out the stats and outcomes by place of birth, intended, and actual.

Nine studies were included in the meta - analysis of child health outcome of births attended by midwives in homes or in hospitals.

With my daughter, born in a hospital with a midwife, we used the vacuum to get her out and by that time, there was the OB, the resident, my midwife and 2 - 3 nurses.

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

5) even the Johnson & Daviss study in 2000 which is quoted so much by midwives shows an increased risk when you compare the year 2000 Homebirth stats with the year 2000 hospital low risk deliveries.

Fetal monitoring is done by both a midwives and doctors at home births, birth center births or hospital births.

Plus I'd seen a family member who'd had 9 home births all handled extremely well by a midwife, with only one being transferred to the hospital, early in labor.

The latest example is an analysis prepared by faculty at the College of Public Health of the University of Arizona, Tucson and the Arizona Public Health Training Center for the Arizona Department of Health Services entitled Outcomes of Home vs. Hospital Births Attended by Midwives: A Systematic Review and Meta - analysis.