But when one of
the midwives arrived to perform the delivery, she didn't bring it up, Jones says.
My midwives arrived after that.
To my delight,
the midwives arrived around 10:45, and spent several minutes setting up their gear.
I hung out in the birthing tub until the other
midwives arrived.
We have contractions timed until
my midwives arrived, so 11:57 pm Faith walked in the door.
He dismissed any explanation and was ready to ship us to Bankstown hospital until our primary
midwife arrived and set things straight.
The 142 home births were on the whole straightforward family events, though five occurred before
the midwife arrived.
We called her again 15 minutes later and by 1:15 am or so,
my midwife arrived.
We spend a lot of time in the prenatal period discussing signs of labor as well as labor coping methods and what to expect when
your midwives arrive at your home.
Our midwife arrived 15 minutes after he was born.
I was birthing the child when
my midwife arrived and the entire situation was calm and right.
When
our midwife arrived, I was still feeling as in control as someone could feel in a birth:) Our midwife was very hands - off, which was helpful.
Presumably in these cases the baby was delivered before
the midwife arrived at the woman's home.
Ten minutes later
a midwife arrived to examine me and saw that I was pushing Freddy's head out.
So many people told me about how they labored at home for hours or days, called their midwife, arrived at the hospital or had
their midwife arrive at their home just in time to transition in a warm pool of water.
Example transfer scenario:
The midwife arrives to care for a woman in labor.
At one point the babys heartbeat went up and after having talked about my fear of transference due to
the midwife arriving (my partner wanted her there, i really wanted to labour unassisted), it slowed down to normal.
The midwife arrived and helped me get settled into bed.
At some merciful juncture
my midwife arrived and wheeled me into L & D. All my dreams of squatting on the birthball, chanting mantras of calm blue ocean, while being massaged with essential oils went the down the drain.
They all made it there, only for the last 10 - 20 minutes (
the midwife arrived five minutes before the baby was born).
We used only one of those CDs before
my midwife arrived and determined the music not «soothing» enough.
Not exact matches
Brian called our
midwife, Joy, and she
arrived just a few minutes after my parents did.
But labour moved quickly and less than an hour after
arriving at the hospital, she was safely delivered by our
midwife at 2:16 p.m. after 5 hours of labour.
Now one fine day a swindler, calling herself
Midwife,
arrived.
She went into labour the next day about 4 pm and her
midwife Fiona Hallinan
arrived about two hours later.»
A baby who
arrives dead, or needs NICU and / or ventilation is a statistic, even if the parents attempt to hide the fact that it was a
midwife - only attended homebirth.
Close to the actual time of birth, our three
midwives would
arrive and they would put cold cloths on my head, rub my back, and help me through the hardest contractions.
Sue, the second
midwife,
arrived.
From her physician's labor support over the phone while waiting for the home birth
midwife to
arrive, to seeking out back - up care for her homebirths with physicians who had never heard of midwifery, to hearing the thoughts of feelings of both
midwives and physicians on the subject of homebirth, Sheryl believes the differences are not stumbling blocks; rather, they are the catalysts for necessary change.
When Elizabeth, the apprentice
arrived, I was annoyed that the
midwives were taking their sweet time coming.
this time we have got very «smart» and along with our family GP of 24 years (my daughter was a year old when he
arrived in our small town and we have all been together ever since) I am going to be the
midwife.
This high risk mother, (yes you become high risk when you have no idea when your due date is) went for hours of intense contractions w / o fetal heart rate being monitored b / c she had to wait for the
midwife to
arrive 3 hours after labor started.
The
midwives didn't
arrive until about 10 - 15 minutes after the baby was born!
Luckily, my husband and I were both mentally prepared to have an unassisted birth so we were not worried that the
midwives were late or that my doula never
arrived.
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).
Given the class I took, I wasn't that surprised when the hospital
midwife stuck an acupuncture needle in my hand when I
arrived.
The second
midwife who would look after me, Katie,
arrived soon after.
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!
The
midwife would call the hospital, the surgical team would gather and by the time we
arrived, it would be all stations go.
When I went into labor I was again assured; as Lisa
arrived - then her assisting
midwife - I was in professional hands, literally.
This mama sent in her picture with this, «Me and my daughter before the
midwife and assistant
arrived.
Albeit somewhat slow in
arriving at this place, today more women are opting for a natural birth assisted by a doula or
midwife.
I went to the new Holistic Birthing Center at St. John Medical Center and met my
midwife Colleen Brezine when I
arrived.
Upon arrival, I found out that the
midwife was still on the way, but within the hour she
arrived.
Isabelle Brabant, a self - trained
midwife who has delivered more than 400 babies,
arrived at a hospital less than 10 minutes after the baby stopped breathing during a home birth and her resuscitation efforts failed.
If my little
arrives early as my
midwife suggested, we might luck out.
If she is birthing at home, she notifies her
midwife who may or may not
arrive immediately depending on the mother's preference.
The
midwife and doula
arrive, and the doula starts massages mom's lower back.
If mom's labor progresses to quickly, there may not be time for the
midwife or doula to
arrive.