Lisa received her Masters degree from University of California, San Francisco in 1997 and has been providing full scope
midwifery care since then.
Not exact matches
Since 2006, I have expanded my offerings from natural childbirth classes to a full spectrum of family education and support, including breastfeeding classes and counseling, fertility education, natural family planning classes, doula
care, perinatal loss
care, and prenatal
care and
midwifery services.»
Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity
care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding
midwifery units,
midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside
midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in
midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.
Jo Anne Myers - Ciecko, MPH, had her first baby at home in 1976 and has been a staunch advocate for childbearing women, the
midwifery model of
care and the recognition of
midwifery in state and national policy ever
since.
Midwife owned and operated
since 1997, Innovation Billing Service, Inc., formerly Midwife's Billing Service, Inc., knows the business of
midwifery and the value of personalized
care.
Since 1998, midwives have provided a full range of antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and newborn
care for women whose pregnancies are considered to be at sufficiently low risk to fall within the scope of
midwifery practice.
And in the 8 years
since my first birth, at least 15 of my coworkers chose
midwifery care for their pregnancies and half of them had out - of - hospital births as well (more planned to, but the babies had other plans).