Sentences with phrase «like seeing your midwife»

There's nothing quite like seeing your midwife write, «stopped breastfeeding due to lactation failure» on your chart.

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Personally, when I saw my midwife for my prenatal care I felt like a real person, rather than just a number (which is how I felt at one OB's practice, that I left I might add).

Our midwife was puzzled and touched and told us that she had never seen anything like us before.

See, we do not have the opportunity to sue here like you do, because the hospital / midwife almost always wins.

I've seen adverts and posters like that all over the place, from Pediatrician / OBGYN / Nurse - Midwife offices to parenting magazines to pro-breastfeeding websites.

Perhaps a debrief for every birth would be helpful — it could be part of the postnatal midwife visits — I would have liked to have seen my UK labour notes (got given a copy for free in NZ).

By sharing stories like this one, people can start to see that my experiences as a midwife were far from unique.

And shows how either untruthful they are (since if they read through them, they would understand that the studies aren't about midwives like them) or stupid (didn't read them at all, but liked what they saw and think it makes them look better)

And none of those things even come close to what it must feel like if you are home with your laboring wife, and an incompetent midwife and suddenly the midwife starts cursing and freaking out, and you can see from where you are standing something is wrong, the baby's feet are coming first, and too much blood, and your wife is screaming in agony and you can't remember how to dial 911.....

A local OB / Gyn I know has taken matters into her own hands and reached out to the local direct entry midwives, offering to meet with them and discuss their practices, when they would like to see mothers transferred, and mothers that should be excluded from homebirth.

Getting back to birth, though, what I would like to see is more birth centers, more midwives like the one in the NPR story, and less of both the «classic» hospital birthing experience and also less of NCB madness like «power birthing» (shudder) that I just this morning learned about from a comment on this blog.

Only one of the midwives we saw actually seemed like she was acting in my partner's and my newborn son's interests.

It had its calm parts and its fearful parts and its dramatic parts — like when the baby's head was out and he began kicking his body visibly inside me, trying to work his way out, something my midwife had never seen in her 35 years of practice.

Midwifery advocates often cite what they see as the biggest irony of anti-midwife laws like the one in Missouri: that a good Samaritan who helps a woman deliver her baby on the side of a road or in a taxi cab is not subject to prosecution, but that a trained midwife who helps a woman carefully plan her out - of - hospital birth is.

You will see how there are lots of women who just like you thought they were getting the greatest care only to then lose a baby and then find out just how awful their midwife actually was.

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Seeing as how so many people (midwives and homebirth women alike... previously, me included) don't like to give homebirth a bad name... I am thinking a lot of bad births weren't turned into MANA (probably mine, included!).

Your doctor or midwife can recommend interventions that really help, such as seeing a therapist who works with lots of moms like you or taking an antidepressant that's safe when nursing.

And that's one of the things that I think, a point that needs belaboring with more people is that a lot what we see, I mean, a huge proponent of going back to basics in terms of childbirth, moving more towards with low risk or no risk pregnancies, more home birth and more midwives and things like that, going back to the way things used to be done before a lot of interventions.

And if Laplanders had never seen the likes of these warmongering foreigners, those foreigners never met up with a Laplander midwife.