Sentences with phrase «lay midwife»

I was preparing for a home delivery with lay midwives.

There are several noted certified nurse - midwife practices and plenty of lay midwives as well.

But certified nurse midwives are distinctly different from lay midwives in their education and scope of practice.

However, there are doctors, nurse - midwives and lay midwives who perform home deliveries as well.

The home births were attended by lay midwives, while physicians cared for the hospital patients.

They are taught how to perform deliveries simply by watching other lay midwives.

I am a nurse midwife, and former lay midwife.

If lay midwives are aware of this — I wonder why this isn't a protocol for them as well, even for homebirth.

For at least two decades, lay midwife advocates have argued that they should be recognized by the state as legitimate caregivers, but physicians groups have opposed them.

They're often called lay midwives or empirical midwives and have informal apprenticeship type training from an experienced midwife.

There is no firm handle on the number of lay midwives, since keeping tabs on their numbers varies from state to state.

These are the things that used to get passed down through a woman's village — her sisters, her mother, her aunts, the women in town who served as lay midwives and had vast experience with babies.

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the rate of infant deaths for lay midwives from 1990 to 1998 was 4.2 per 1,000.

I suffer from living in Texas where lay midwives are licensed by the Dept of Health midwifery board and so many laypeople are completely clueless as to their lack of professional standards / education.

Why would the AMA or ACOG be interested in allowing lay midwives to practice?

Lay midwives doing home - birth procedures practice completely outside the boundaries of our medical system's checks and balances, where there are few safeguards for addressing immediate complications and little recourse other than calling 911 for emergency backup.

What I WOULD have a problem with is people birthing without proper prenatal care and screening with lay midwives practicing on their own.

Doctors argue that these figures are distorted because lay midwives take only the lowest - risk cases.

«That way parents can make an informed, educated decision,» Frye told the jury in the trial of lay midwife Yvonne Cryns, of Richmond in McHenry County.

She chose lay midwife Valerie Morris of Homeworks Midwifery Service in Elgin.

I would like to respond to lay midwife Valerie Runes» assertion that there are no clear - cut standards regarding the practice of midwifery («Midwife's trial in baby's death is set to begin,» Metro, May 14).

The 50 - year - old Richmond lay midwife faces two counts in the death of Spencer Verzi, who was stillborn in the feet - first breech position in his Round Lake Beach home last Aug. 19.

There are still so many who don't understand the difference between a CNM, CPM, and all other lay midwives let alone accreditation.

She's the Canadian lay midwife with no formal training who has learned nothing from presiding over a number of homebirth deaths.

«Direct Entry» in the United States means lay midwives.

IMO lay midwives have as much standing in the hospital as an opinionated aunt.

Of note, 13 of these deaths occurred at the hands of American lay midwives and CPMs.

I would much rather have a trained medical staff right there in the event something goes wrong while I'm in labor, instead of some hippie - granola lay midwife waving sage and crystals at my hoo - ha for four days.

I wish the statement was more clear in that an apprentice midwife isn't adequate for the baby cos that seems to be how lay midwives work — the primary midwife and the assistant or apprentice show up.

Lay midwives tend to emphasize the psychosocial and physiologic aspects of labor and delivery.

Homebirth will always be a choice, but let it be a choice with no implied approvals from government by licensing undereducated lay midwives.

The connection between lay midwives and chiropractors....

«Many [lay midwives] shy away from breech births,» Anne Frye said, testifying for the defense at the trial of a midwife charged in the death of a stillborn breech infant.

Supporters of direct - entry midwives, or lay midwives such as Cryns, acknowledge that high - profile cases such as this can serve to push the movement backward because of the negative publicity they generate.

Lay midwives came under intense scrutiny in Illinois in 2000 after a Round Lake Beach newborn died during a difficult feet - first delivery.

But Rep. Angelo «Skip» Saviano (R - Elmwood Park), who heads the committee on Registration and Regulation in which the midwife proposal was recently considered, said lay midwives could not convince him that proposed educational requirementsare adequate.

Last month, a bill to legalize lay midwives got only three votes in a House committee in Springfield.

The Coalition for Illinois Midwifery is fighting to license and certify lay midwives, which would add more options for those looking to have a home birth.

Under state law, only physicians and certified nurse - midwives are licensed to oversee a birth, according to the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, which is issuing cease - and - desist orders against lay midwives.

Because of the risks associated with such deliveries and the fact that lay midwives often feel ostracized by the medical profession for their beliefs in natural birth, Frye said it is imperative that any midwife discuss the procedure with her clients.