Sentences with phrase «living as a midwife»

I liked this basic book that covers pregnancy and birth in a really clear and freak - out - free way, and this memoir on life as a midwife was really interesting.

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From the Cajun Navy to Houston midwives, this live voice app has seen 20 times as many new users after the hurricane.

«When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.»

Just as the midwife warned me might happen, as I approach labor I find myself revisiting the ancient traumas of my life.

The boy midwife on his knees, engaged by his own life of feeling, was, as Webster defines the midwife, «the woman with.»

I pray for spiritual midwives in your life, women who will breathe alongside of you as you are giving birth to the new you over and over again.

Midwives are becoming more and more involved with birthing families and have been instrumental in redefining birth as a natural event in women's lives.

Tomorrow evening, Jan. 2, barring any late - breaking big news stories, ABC's 20/20 is set to air an episode featuring segments on long - term (extended) breastfeeding, as well as home birth (both with and without midwives), serial surrogates (women that have numerous babies for other women), «fake babies» (life - like dolls), and orgasmic birth.

As a healthy, able - bodied mama living in a safe home that's close to a nearby emergency room if it was needed, birthing at home with trained midwives was a great option for me.

The interrogation isn't just at work, but also in our personal lives as our church members or small groups label us as the home birth midwife.

[The mother] said that in the hospital immediately after it was clear that Kai had died, Ms Engel [the midwife] said she would never do a home birth again as long as she lived and kept saying «I am so sorry, I am so sorry.»

The home birth midwives there are as incompetent as CPMs, and they flee the «crime scene» as soon as they can If something goes wrong, because they can be charged with endangering a life of a minor or manslaughter.

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.

A few years ago, I met with a nurse - midwife for my annual screenings and as part of that discussion she reviewed my health history and current life style.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

It is based on my years of experience, as a midwife and yoga teacher, helping thousands of women tap into their calm and live and birth from a place of grounded relaxation and joy.

People have already pointed out that other countries with midwives working with Obs are strict on who can call themselves a midwife and who can be classed as low risk and deliver at home (I live in one of these countries).

«Judy Slome Cohain is a masters degree certified nurse midwife in the US who has been living and working in Israel since 1983 as an unlicensed midwife.

She practiced in Portland as a home birth midwife and has lived and practiced in rural Jamaica.

And as the famous midwife Ruth Lubic once said, birth is as safe is anything else that we do in life.

Bizarro world: Birth trauma in a hospital is referred to as «birth rape»... yet here we have a prominent midwife, highly regarded in homebirth circles, who is OK with sexually assaulting you during one of the most stressful times of your life.

Why are you so keen to license a type of substandard midwife that is not educated or experienced enough to practise anywhere else in the developed world and certainly wouldn't qualify as a homebirth midwife where I live?

In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

So it just boggles my mind that a lay person who knows next to nothing about childbirth thinks she can hire herself out as a midwife, risk the lives of her clients and their infants and then dust off her hands and say «oh well» when something like this happens.

Since then I have been repeatedly visiting these midwives to interview them and observe their lives and practices, in order to understand the changes they make in both practice and consciounsess as a result of their ongoing contact with the professional midwives.

As a Certified Nurse Midwife and an OB / GYN Nurse Practitioner, I specialize in the full life cycle of supporting women.

The midwifery philosophy emphasizes pregnancy and birth as normal and profound life experiences and the role of the midwife in keeping birth normal [15, 16].

As an experienced midwife, I feel excited that the messages fit with what I've seen & lived for 3 decades.

Ptients like you are the exact reason why midwives have patients even though they are not as knowledgeable, skilled or effective at saving lives.

Your midwife is just not as good at the live, non-disabled baby thing as your local obstetrics ward is.

It turns out to be much easier to make a living as a freelancer of any kind (midwife included) if you live in a major population center, among a geographical cluster of patients.

Deaths of older babies do have to do with standard of care (or lack thereof), by Pediatricians or MD's since Midwives do not do care past the 6th week, but are usually available to their clients for life on a referral basis, or as I have done — suturing my kids deep cuts & splinting broken fingers.

She really enjoys life as a caseloading midwife as she can get to know her families and support them for the full 6 weeks postnatally, combining her two roles and offer new parents the support with slings and carriers that not everyone feels confident going out looking for early on.

She blessed my life by serving as a midwife for my fourth child after a previous rough birth.

However, because midwives offer eligible clients the choice of home or hospital births, subjects in this comparison group lived in the same hospital catchment areas as those in the home birth group because the same midwives attended both groups.

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Her true life's calling is as a midwife.

Spiritual Midwifery, published in 1975 as a collection of birth stories written by the mothers of The Farm, collected by the midwives, has touched the lives of millions around the world.

The idea of live streaming the birth tickled at the back of my mind and I found myself reflecting on the labor and birth videos I had watched over the years either preparing for my own births or as a student midwife.

As a sacred Midwife I do not control birth rather allow birth to evolve freely and gracefully to its natural conclusion in doing so each of us Father, mother, baby and midwife empower ourselves by allowing the birth process of life to unfold according to the individual DivinMidwife I do not control birth rather allow birth to evolve freely and gracefully to its natural conclusion in doing so each of us Father, mother, baby and midwife empower ourselves by allowing the birth process of life to unfold according to the individual Divinmidwife empower ourselves by allowing the birth process of life to unfold according to the individual Divine plan.

For instance, the Rockefeller Foundation published a highly influential report, «Good Health at Low Cost,» promoting China's patriotic health campaign, Costa Rica's universal health insurance, Sri Lanka's land reform movement and Kerala's rural nurse - midwives as reasons residents of these areas were living better.

As for my homebirth, midwives aren't licensed where I live.

Then a midwife recommended Vitex, and as soon as I started, I was getting 28 - day cycles nearly every month for the first time in my life.

I am so grateful to have had Molly in my life these past 2 years not only as my midwife but also as my Naturopathic Doctor.

As a mother, she practices what she teaches about nutrition and healthful living - becoming pregnant at age 39 and delivering her healthy baby girl safe at home, with midwife, doula, and husband assisting.

Not much happens in The Midwife, but its depth and texture make this a moving film about families, time passing and shared history — and the handful of scenes in the maternity unit where Claire works, five or six little miracles of birth, somehow add to its sense of a life as mysterious and precious.

Jenny Agutter provides «Call the Midwife» with a solid center as the head of the order of nuns with whom the midwives live and work, and several other razor - sharp character actors fill out other roles extremely well, but Miranda Hart, who plays Chummy, walks off with the show.

Early in Tara's life, her mother becomes a midwife and then develops oils and herb infusions to treat mishaps, as doctors and hospitals were mostly verboten.

The town midwife, Adelaide, who sees it as her job to protect the children, the sheriff, who has plenty of tragedy in his own life, and the two young boys, Jess, who is in third grade, and his older but mute brother, Christopher.