Two university educated,
licensed midwives attend each homebirth and it is backed up by the main maternity hospital.
Not exact matches
In most of the US, doctors refuse to
attend VBACs, and
licensed midwives are legally prohibited from doing so.
It is interesting to learn that women are willing to go to the extreme of an unassisted birth for something like a VBAC when a
licensed doctor or
midwife could
attend to her.
And many American
midwives who
attend homebirths are not properly trained or
licensed, including Ina May Gaskin, a leading figure in the natural childbirth movement.
It would establish a
licensing system and create risk categories of things like breech and multiples that a
licensed midwife couldn't
attend.
With over twenty years of midwifery in both home and birth center practice, Constance has had the honor of
attending over 1100 births as well as the privilege of having over 20 apprentices, many who are now
licensed midwives.
The committee that advises
licensing in my state must consist of 2 CPMs, a CNM who
attends out of hospital births, an OB / GYN, and a member of the public who has had
midwife care outside of a hospital.
States are starting to collect the statistics on planned homebirth
attended by
licensed midwives and the results are nothing short of appalling.
I fully believe in the wisdom and expertise of having a
licensed care provider, whether obstetrician or
midwife,
attend birth.
By 1917, a physician who wanted to
attend births needed to be separately and additionally
licensed as a
midwife.
In contrast, almost all direct entry
midwives attend births in homes or in free - standing birth centers, although a very few
licensed midwives are now getting hospital privileges or hospital employment.
The authors fails to give any theoretical explanation for what complication of planned
attended homebirth, that is not present at planned hospital birth could account for 1 in every 625 homebirths dying during labor at the hands of
licensed doctors and
midwives.
Many great resources are available that support the safety and success of natural birth
attended by
licensed, experienced
midwives.
A Florida -
licensed midwife (CPM, LM) can
attend your birth at a standalone birth center or at your home.
A study of 3,257 out - of - hospital births
attended by Arizona
licensed midwives between 1978 - 85 shows a perinatal mortality rate of 2.2 per 1,000 and a neonatal mortality rate of 1.1 per 1,000 live births.
She co-authored the first study of outcomes of
licensed midwife -
attended births in Washington, published in Birth in 1994.
Currently, while 31 states
license and recognize certified professional
midwives (CPMs), Kentucky does not, making it risky for
midwives to
attend birth.