Sentences with phrase «midwife comes to your home»

Generally, a midwife comes to your home to assist and ensure the health and safety of you and your baby.

In other countries, such as Germany, a midwife comes to your home once you return from the hospital to provide you and your newborn with additional support.

Mothers might consider having a midwife come to their home or perhaps complete the delivery process at the hospital.

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Perhaps it does all come down to money, but if that really were the case, then why wouldn't my insurance company reimburse me a measly $ 2000 (relatively speaking) to cover my prenatal care, home birth, and postnatal care that I had with a midwife for my son's birth in 2006?

I had lots of help: dh was not working at the time and was committed to helping me 24/7 and was 100 % supportive; mil is a IBCLC and would drop everything and come to our home if we called her; my midwife was passionate about breastfeeding, visited me ever other day, sometimes every day; I saw Dr. Jack Newman regularly until my son was 8 weeks old.

If labor stalls, you don't get pressured to be induce or told to go home; you just go to sleep and the midwife gets to be the one that comes and goes as needed.

I came to the conclusion that it is perfectly safe for a healthy woman with a normal pregnancy to deliver at home with an experienced midwife.

I think Dr Amy's anger comes from reading story after story about preventable deaths, and preventable permanent injury to infants, month after month, and having the home - birth advocates here in the USA simply ignore the very real risks of homebirth with an uneducated «midwife».

After my first 24 hrs at home with my new born daughter and exclusively breast milk, the first time the midwife came to my house she said to give her a bottle.

Birth Support: The Midwife will come to your home or meet at the hospital to labor with as planned during our prenatal sessions.

If you are cared for by a midwife they come and assess you at home when you go into labor even if you are planning on a hospital birth (unless you choose to go right in and meet them there but most midwife clients want to be at home as long a possible from what I understand).

Your midwife, health visitor and a local breastfeeding counsellor can give you support over the phone or come visit you at home to show you some useful techniques.

Maybe it was a mistake that your wife made to make those postings public, but something good has come out from it because these stories, even though it's painful to be written about, these stories need to be told, because the midwives and home birth community are not talking about these risks.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

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.....

We take home birthing classes to teach us how to do it, and we're gonna have our midwife and when the baby's head comes out he's gonna be Dr. Wiz.

Some midwives will come to your house to do a home birth.

We monitored my BP for another week, but when we realize that it wasn't coming down my midwife and I had a heart to heart about the fact that I likely wasn't a good candidate for a home birth.

Inspired by the home birth of his son (which also included a midwife and birth doula), he created The Dadvocate in 2014 to help dads (and moms) be educated and informed about the many decisions and dynamic changes that come with pregnancy and birth, all the while using humor and raw insight to show the birth world and parenthood from a dad's point of view.

But some couples just seem to have it down - still don't believe me - check out what Suzanne Su'a from Croydon, England shared on Facebook: «I had a home birth with my husband delivering the baby, meanwhile our midwife was buzzing urgently to come in to help.

Mamas who have midwives for either a birth center or home birth seem to have the most choices when it comes to prenatal care.

So much research has come to show that home births and midwives are the way to go health wise.

Family support was crucial for Nicki, who struggled to get her son, Cruz, to continue to breastfeed after they came home from hospital, despite the continued support she received from her midwife.

Since I wanted a home birth, my midwife also came to my house for one of our visits & we got to discuss how I wanted to labour, who I wanted present at the birth, what my ideal situation would be as well as what my preferences were for things like episiotomies (no thank you!)

For the first little while, you'll probably have midwives and health visitors coming to your home to keep an eye on you and baby, and ensuring baby is gaining weight nicely.

If you are planning a home birth and suddenly find yourself in labor when you're 6 months pregnant, do you go to the nearest hospital with a NICU or do you call your home birth midwife to come over and deliver the baby.

Women were BUILT to give birth, OBGYNs are glorified surgeons, oh a BTW what about leaving sponges inside women, and all kinds if issues that come with surgery, and the fact that a hospital is full of germs and sick people, where as at home its the same environment moms been in the whole pregnancy... Hospitals smeared midwives when they first started cutting babies out, and they continue to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they lied about the stats

Not matter what a midwife says, you call the shots during your delivery and can request to have your care transferred at any time - whether that means having a doctor come in an check on you, or in the event of a home birth, be transferred to the hospital.

On the way home, I called our doula and our photographer and midwife and made plans to have them all come over at their various times that they could make it (from being out of town or whatever).

During the active stage of labour you should move to your place of birth, or have your midwife come out to you if you're having a home birth.

Midwives can tell a lot by talking to you on the phone in early labour (from your breathing, voice etc) and if you are planning a hospital birth, she will probably suggest you stay at home until your contractions are coming frequently and your labour is established.

It is often easy to come up with an extensive list of questions when you are considering a home birth with a Midwife.

When it comes to your options, Tulsa Family Doulas are very familiar with the local hospitals and OBs and equally familiar with the local home birth and birth center midwives.

She comments, «My first home birth was unattended because the obstetrician with whom my CNM had a practice agreement would not support the home birth plan and would not allow my midwife to come to me.

Most midwives will give you a home birth kit to keep at home 4 - 6 weeks out from your expected due date so you'll be ready in case baby decides to come early.

Whatever my ego might gain from any prestige or exposure associated with a gallery show seems lost in the soul - satisfaction that comes of midwifing my art from start to finish, including sending the work to a new home with a collector I know.