Sentences with phrase «midwife at my homebirth»

I actually did have a midwife at my homebirth and sadly my baby died.

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The media has failed to differentiate between freebirth or unassisted birth (no midwife or doctor) and homebirth (a birth at home, usually with a midwife or homebirth doctor).

We had chosen to have a homebirth through the midwives at the birth centre in St George hospital.

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, we called our midwives who gently told us that we couldn't have a home birth because we were at 35 weeks which was too early for a homebirth.

How many of the 27,000 babies in their database of outcomes from 2001 - 2008 died at the hands of homebirth midwives?

Homebirth midwives, since they aren't under any legal requirement to keep complete records [or any records at all, really] in the US, would probably fudge or omit such extreme outcomes except that most of these cases wind up in hospitals and can't be hidden.

Just because YOU and YOUR babies were fine doesn't negate the mountain of data (including MANA's own study) that clearly indicates the dangers of homebirth and the hideously higher death rate at the hands of homebirth midwives.

MANA refuses to release the number of those 24,000 babies who died at the hands of homebirth midwives.

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How many babies die at the hands of homebirth midwives?

The key point for us is that first, it's the US homebirth we generally discuss here and second, it's impossible for a midwife to ensure a safe birth when after the mother's DEATH, a trained midwife feels that she, the midwife, is the victim, because the bereaved husband somehow forgot that his wife had a «really lovely spontaneous birth at home» and listened to her, the midwife, when she told him over the phone that transfer wasn't necessary because her, the midwife's husband, would not have listened to the midwife but to his wife when she told him, «I want to go to the hospital.»

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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.

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I actually met a homebirth midwife at a fetal monitoring class who does use EFM at home.

Like most Americans, I simply thought you needed medication in the birthing process even though my sister, Amy, is a nurse midwife who specialized in homebirth and is now working to change this misperception and to empower women to give birth naturally (check out her blog at scienceandsensibility.org).

Maybe they are smiling because they know it doesn't matter how many babies die at the hands of self - proclaimed homebirth midwives.

Shouldn't self - proclaimed «midwives» Mary Barhite and Jacqueline Proffit look even a tiny bit remorseful or at least sad in the wake of presiding over yet another homebirth death in the state of North Carolina?

That makes no sense at all until you remember that the entire point of MANA is to provide intellectual cover for homebirth midwives, who are nothing more than lay people, to do whatever they want to do.

Evidently, they are taking a page out of the playbook of the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), the organization that represents homebirth midwives, who conducted a publicly announced collection of safety data from 24,000 planned homebirths and now are hiding how many deaths occurred at the hands of homebirth mMidwives Alliance of North America (MANA), the organization that represents homebirth midwives, who conducted a publicly announced collection of safety data from 24,000 planned homebirths and now are hiding how many deaths occurred at the hands of homebirth mmidwives, who conducted a publicly announced collection of safety data from 24,000 planned homebirths and now are hiding how many deaths occurred at the hands of homebirth midwivesmidwives.

Unless standards are raised, babies will continue to die unnecessarily at births attended by American homebirth midwives.

How many babies have to die before the Midwives Alliance of North America is forced to publicly acknowledge that they KNOW that homebirth at the hands of a CPM dramatically increases the rate of perinatal death?

Our practice is unique however, in that we have a higher ratio of trained staff than most all homebirth practices in the country (three assistants at each birth all equipped to provide a full resuscitation), and we carry far more equipment than generally secured by midwives.

(I am an Australian midwife and also had homebirths prior to becoming a midwife) Your system in America is quite radically different to ours here in Australia and so we don't have the same problem with poorly trained and undereducated midwives and although we still have ideologically driven midwifery, where process is promoted over outcome, we have strict protocols, guidelines and governance at all levels to ensure dangerous midwives are prevented from continuing to practice and women and their families are protected and have recourse for compensation.

Apparently Sherry was «so calm» and «so experienced» (since she has been a homebirth midwife since 1975 in a town that just now is reaching a population of 13,000) that she delivered a FOOTLING BREECH AT HOME.

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I have had five babies, all came out of my nether regions, one was born at home with fantastic community midwives, and one started out as a homebirth and ended up in hospital.

Dutch midwife Ank de Jonge is at it again, slicing and dicing data in yet another unsuccessful attempt to show that homebirth is safe.

They're raising money to «free» an uncredentialed, unlicensed «midwife» who is charged with misrepresenting her qualifications to parents, presiding over a homebirth death, and who was arrested for prostitution, without making an attempt at, indeed without even calling for an investigation of any kind.

The paper is only looking at the hospital based government programmes, not the private midwife homebirths that are outside of the health system.

Homebirth is safe or safer than hospital birth because when you exlude women who midwives shouldn't have taken at all and those who doctors and real miwives couldn't save after homebirth clowns botched deliveries — well, it totalHomebirth is safe or safer than hospital birth because when you exlude women who midwives shouldn't have taken at all and those who doctors and real miwives couldn't save after homebirth clowns botched deliveries — well, it totalhomebirth clowns botched deliveries — well, it totally works!

Bear in mind that homebirth midwives want cold, hard cash in advance, so a homebirth is not an attractive choice for families with cash - flow problems (which, like it or not, describes most US families at nearly all income levels).

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I expect that you worship at his altar because your homebirth midwives surely do.

It's hardly surprising therefore that death rates at the hands of homebirth midwives are appalling.

She apprenticed in a rural homebirth practice as well as another birth center during her studies between 2005 and 2008, but came to land back at Andaluz as a primary midwife in 2008.

She attended homebirths with her midwife for two years before apprenticing at Andaluz.

Yet another baby has been placed at risk of significant brain damage and possible death because the clueless homebirth midwives didn't understand how to diagnose fetal distress.

I have a friend who is in her third trimester and planning a homebirth despite having had a near miss at her first birth (also a homebirth; baby arrived limp and floppy and the «awesome midwife» resuscitated him, and no one acknowledges that he probably wouldn't have been in distress without the very long and post dates labor he'd endured).

Will MANA, the organization that represents homebirth midwives, review its requirements in light of the unacceptably high rate of death and injury at homebirth?

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The problem is the homebirth midwives cause this harm at a rate 3 - 10 time higher in hospital.

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The overall all rate of perinatal death at planned homebirth with a LICENSED midwife was 800 % higher than comparable risk hospital deaths.

Losing my son (3rd child) at 43 weeks during labor, was attempting a home birth vba2c, his passing was NOT due to me attempting a vaginal birth or a home birth, in fact when we attempt to have our 4th child I will be going for a vba3c, I am so supported through this by the women in my local homebirth group, it has allowed me to see the sun in the storm, I have started a charity in my sons name to help women get a doula or midwife when they would not be able to afford their services other wise.

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

The choice of an Apgar score of zero and the primary outcome measurement is particularly apt, since severe neurologic injury is particularly likely at homebirth, because homebirth midwives do not monitor the fetal heart rate appropriately.

National mortality statistics for homebirth midwives are dismal and individual states like Colorado have truly appalling death rates at homebirth.