Sentences with phrase «midwife care outside»

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.

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Midwives describe the desire to peel away these fictions of medicalized prenatal care, exposing strong and capable women who «grow» and birth babies outside the regulatory and self - regulatory processes naturalized by modern, technocratic obstetrics...

I am a home birth midwife who practices according to the Midwives Model of Care and is trained to assist healthy pregnant women who choose to give birth outside the hospital.

With out - of - hospital birth, we assess the baby's vital signs and do a full physical exam after the birth, however, midwives and even OBs who practice outside of the hospital are not specialists in pediatric care.

In many countries outside of the US, midwives are the primary care givers in maternity systems that have better neonatal mortality rates than those of the US.

For the purposes of the current analysis, we excluded responses about childbirth experiences from outside of British Columbia and about health center nurses and «other» care providers from the dataset, to focus on the three types of primary maternity care providers available in BC (i.e. midwives, family physicians, or obstetricians).

For parents planning births outside of the hospital, it is also important to know your midwife's usual plan for transfer of care (prenatally and in labor), whether or not surgical birth is part of your birth plan.

To what extent the observed benefits can be attributed to the model of midwifery care, midwifery philosophy, or to the quality and degree of relationship between the care provider and women was outside the scope of this review and requires an in - depth exploration of the mechanisms through which midwife - led care might work.

When we consider the well - known health consequences of a cesarean — not to mention the exponentially higher costs — this study brings a fresh reminder of the benefits of midwife - led care outside of our overburdened hospital system.

When the care required is outside the midwife's scope of practice or expertise, the woman is referred to other health care providers for additional consultation or care.

Midwives need to know when the situation becomes outside of their scope of practice and then shift the care to doctors if necessary.