Sentences with phrase «only as a midwife»

A direct - entry midwife is a person who does not have any training as a nurse, only as a midwife.

I am so grateful to have had Molly in my life these past 2 years not only as my midwife but also as my Naturopathic Doctor.

Not exact matches

We are all ultimately human and even as doulas it only takes one really bad experience for us to decide whether or not we like a doctor or midwife.

However, after being awake for only 30 minutes this morning, both kids were in tears, Ava was melting down repeatedly and, as much as I wanted to see my midwife, I didn't think a social event would be in anyone's best interest — us or anyone in attendance.

Up until the 50s most women in the UK gave birth at home, and most were only attended by a female friend or relative, or a «self - titled» untrained midwife, and it was completely down to luck as to how good, or bad she was.

Ina May Gaskin is America's midwife, and in this book, she tackles breastfeeding as only she can.

[The father] said his girlfriend wanted to go down the route of having as natural a birth and pregnancy as possible and contacted Ms Engel, the only local midwife in Mayo.

The only instance I can imagine is malpractice, and at least that gets investigated properly in a hospital setting rather than swept under the rug as we see in so many US midwife cases.

Midwifery is as midwifery does — and before being pressed very hard by this recent report, Cathy Warwick who's one of the FACES of midwifery showed that she only cared about midwives» employment.

I'm an adult nurse and it was only because I would never let an adult go for so long without weeing as my son did I ignored the midwives and gave a bottle.

Despite what midwives and research say, breast feeding does NOT come naturally to everyone and as research has shown it is also not necessarily the best and only way forward.

I can speak only for myself, but I think the one at home was sooooo much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't have an orgasm, but I saw «a lightning» in our bedroom and I have gone to the moon — as one of the midwifes in the movie «Business of being born» says.

To that end, I had chosen my obstetrician carefully: the only one in the Greater Cincinnati area at that time who specialized in natural birth, having as well a team of certified midwives and offering a home birth option.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

The attention of the midwife will have switched to the opposite end of your body, she may now be trying to guide your nipple into your baby's mouth instead of putting her hands «down there» trying to feel the baby's head, as she was doing only moments ago.

Midwives are trained in guarding the normalcy of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, not disturbing it when all is well, knowing when to compassionately observe with loving support, and when and how to use holistic remedies, or medical intervention only when necessary as a last resort; they are also educated in prevention, assessment and treatment of complications, which most times can be managed simply and naturally, but sometimes involves consultation or referral to an obstetrician.

Midwife clinics (but not midwifery led clinics) were substantially less available, with only 33.2 % of respondents citing it as a care option available to them.

Because as a student nurse midwife this is not only covered in the diadatic portion of my GRADUATE leve education, but also in the clinical portion.

In fact, as a midwife, I've had women tell me not only that they feel proud of their labor and birth, but also, that they even feel in ecstasy with their experiences - even if intense and challenging.

Then the situation in America will be the same as those other countries, because there will only be licensed midwives and not lay midwives!!

They start with a unshakeable belief that homebirth is as safe or safer than hospital birth, and that lay midwives with only a highschool education are adequately trained.

Can she and the homebirth advocates of the Big Push for Midwives truly be so ignorant as to think they can take credit for preventing complications simply by caring for only uncomplicated patients?

In the event, general practitioners participated in 51 (36 %) home births; however, only 16 midwives mentioned the general practitioner as actually being present at delivery.

The dreamgenii pregnancy pillow is recommended by midwives and is recognised as the only specifically designed pregnancy pillow and maternity pillow to adequately support back, bump and knees at the same time without taking up all of the room in the bed.

As I was 36 weeks pregnant, my plans to have baby at the midwife hospital were ruled out (they only take from 37 weeks on), so she asked me to meet her at a private hospital 20 minutes away.

Only nine women (3.6 % of all women studied) had a home birth as well as a supportive general practitioner and a midwife they already knew.

Lest you think that such vicious behavior is somehow restricted only to gun rights activists, consider the response of midwives and lactation consultants to the tragedies that arise as a result of their beloved ideologies.

But as Judith also noted in her verbal testimony, the hospital rate contains both low and high - risk births, so the DEM rate is actually even worse in comparison (since homebirth midwives are attending - supposedly — low risk births only).

Midwives who brag about having lower C - section rates as «proof» that natural birth is better and midwifery care superior have totally missed the point and should NOT call that «evidence based care» (I could brag that I haven't had one patient I have performed a AAA repair on and it would be true, only it's because I can't perform one, not that I haven't cared for a patient who needs one).

Great not only for nursing mothers but for midwives, doulas and doctors as well!!

I spent a lot of money and time taking many workshops, continuing education and embarked on my own self study to master and refine my skills as not only a midwife, but also as an owner of a private practice and its administrator.

A midwife is with me during labour and birth and the consultant present only if needed such as in an emergency

Arkansas has the worst infant mortality rate and the highest cesarean section rate in the U.S. Arkansas statistics show the fetal mortality rate for physicians as 8.3 / 1000, but for licensed midwives as only 4.0 / 1000.

Isn't Texas the state that required a midwife to write an apology letter as her only punishment for a mishandled birth?

This model is used in Australia as well, but in the US only about 12 % of births are attended by midwives, and usually with the requirement that an obstetrician is available for back up.

Only if ALL persons attending births as midwives are legally required to keep full records [and how are you going to track down «fugitive» or non-cooperative pseudo-midwives?]

The only doctor most women will see anaesthetist unless the midwife detects any problems or the mother is classed as high risk due to medical problems or due to previous problems with births.

If you look at the death rate when high - risk pregnancies falsely classified as low - risk are included (midwives claim to only attend low - risk births), you've gotten up to 2.0 per thousand deaths and about 40 per thousand permanently injured for a total of 42 per thousand dead or permanently injured.

«Every single country in the European region with perinatal and infant mortality rates lower than the United States uses midwives as the principal and only birth attendant for at least 70 % of all births.»

How is it that we can think a breastfeeding toddler who is drinking his own mother's milk is strange and «unnecessary», yet drinking the milk from a cow which is made to grow a calf (which weighs up to 45 kilos at birth) is seen as not only normal but superior?!! How is it that doctor's, midwives, mothers, fathers, friends and strangers can suggest that switching to a cow's milk is superior to a child's own mother's milk?!

As of 2003, 21 states recognize and regulate direct entry midwives (although for two of the states, New York and Rhode Island, only the CM credential is acceptable).

We moved to a different state during my second trimester, and in our new locale, the only birth options are really home birth with a lay «midwife» or a hospital birth with an OB, (as there are no CNMs).

As most of my readers are aware, Nurse Midwives are licensed in every state within the country and only a rare few require supervision due to license restrictions.

A source of confusion for the general public is evident in reports of obstetric opinion where midwifery services are only recognised as they relate to home birth, failing to acknowledge the work of midwives across the full range of maternity services.

I requested the book she recommended, as well as Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin, a renowned midwife from Tennessee, and the only midwife who has a medical procedure, the Gaskin Maneuver (used in cases of shoulder distocia) named after her.

Home birth midwives are skilled at categorizing women as low risk or high risk, so they only take women into their care who are good candidates for home birth.

Midwives and their patients understand the benefits of natural delivery as the national c - section rate in birth center births is only 6 %.

Pregnant women should only use turmeric under the guidance of their OB or midwife, as turmeric can cause uterine contractions.

I felt this was a wonderful complement to my practice as a Naturopathic Doctor and I became one of only a handful of naturopathically trained midwives in Canada.

, Ginny and James decided to have an unassisted home birth, otherwise known as free birth (The only way to have a home birth in Alabama at the time, as it was illegal to have any certified nurse midwife or medical professional in attendance for a planned home birth.