Sentences with phrase «risk by a midwife»

Also, a mother with no medical history but a large weight gain would be assessed as low risk by a midwife but high - risk by a doctor.

Not exact matches

What we need is a maternity care system in which ALL low - risk pregnancies are followed by midwives - and then we should be offering a choice for home, hospital or birth centre locations.

Hutton EK, Reitsma AH, Kaufman K. Outcomes associated with planned home and planned hospital births in low - risk women attended by midwives in Ontario, Canada, 2003 — 2006: a retrospective cohort study.

After a diagnostic ultrasound with an OB at the delivery hospital, I was placed in the group that is low risk enough to be cared for primarily by midwives during delivery.

[The Coroner] said midwife Fiona Hallinan had indirectly contributed to the baby's death by failing to tell the mother of the risks of home birth which had «sustained the misguided views of the mother, contributed to her disregarding the advice provided by obstetric medical clinicians and facilitated in her a level of confidence that she may safely proceed to home birth».

Properly trained midwives work to keep their moms healthy and maintain low - risk pregnancies by ensuring they're getting enough nutrients and getting to the root of problems (more often than not, it's caused by diet and lifestyle), rather than masking them with medication (but again, recognizing when medication is needed).

Hence the inane claim by MANA executive Jeannette McCulloch, in a recent post on the blog of the Midwives Alliance of North America, that «no one knows» how to tell the difference between low risk and high risk.

«The sheer magnitude of numbers in de Jonge et al. — over half a million midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or in the hospital — combined with a true comparison group (low - risk, women who chose hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and hospital groups, attended by the same group of midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»

The safety of home birth for healthy, low - risk women, when attended by skilled midwives and in a system that facilitates collaboration and timely transfer of care, is well supported by the evidence.

Breastfeeding is challenged which introduces long - term risk that is grossly under appreciated by NICU staff, and never has a homebirth midwife confused which newborn was born to which mother.

Women who planned a home birth were at reduced risk of all obstetric interventions assessed and were at similar or reduced risk of adverse maternal outcomes compared with women who planned to give birth in hospital accompanied by a midwife or physician.

Indeed a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Perinatology analyzed homebirths attended by a certified nurse midwife (CNM) and found that they had double the risk of neonatal death of CNM attended hospital births, even though the hospital birth cohort included high risk patients.

If I hadn't joined the message boards at Mothering.com, I probably wouldn't have known that birth is inherently safe and that all that stuff about «risk» was made up by doctors trying to steal business from midwives.

Midwives are licensed by the California Medical Board to be the primary care providers for healthy, normal, and low risk mothers and babies for an entire six weeks following the birth!

So midwives need to market themselves or they risk being eclipsed by obstetricians who know more and can do more.

Is there data about low risk births with OB's in the Netherlands or are the women always cared for by midwives?

I stand by my assertion that the vast majority of women would choose to give birth in a hospital if they could not find a midwife willing to deliver high risk patients at home.

The home birth community seems to be inhabited by singularly callous people, who find that it is worth ostracising and ignoring loss parents, sacrificing other people's (and sometimes even their own) babies, and protecting dangerous midwives, all for the sake of avoiding any kind of discussion whatsoever of the risks and benefits of home birth.

Your midwives saw to it that was maintained as well by not warning you that all of the data on homebirth in the US show a 3 - 8x higher risk of the baby dying in homebirth than in hospital birth.

The second sentence in the abstract does state: «Analysis of combined data from all 8 studies showed a three-fold increase in risk of neonatal deaths for homebirth attended by midwives, compared to hospital births.»

There is no way I would have ever been under the care of a midwife (I was high risk all the way) but it is still terrifying knowing my sweet healthy boy could have easily been a stillbirth without all the high tech and diligent monitoring by my medical team.

We analyzed 8 outcomes of child health (neonatal deaths, prenatal deaths, Apgar...», or even «The findings suggest that homebirths attended by midwives may be equally safe if not safer for women with low - risk pregnancies», which could mean «safer for women» who have «low - risk pregnancies» or equally «safer» for «women who have low - risk pregnancies».

Pooled results indicated that homebirths attended by midwives were associated with increased risks for neonatal deaths [pooled OR (95 % CI): 3.11 (2.49, 3.89)-RSB-.

5) even the Johnson & Daviss study in 2000 which is quoted so much by midwives shows an increased risk when you compare the year 2000 Homebirth stats with the year 2000 hospital low risk deliveries.

Results of the meta - analysis also revealed that homebirths attended by midwives were associated with decreased risk for postpartum hemorrhage > 500 ml and retained placenta [pooled ORs (95 % CI s 0.60 (0.44, 0.81) and 0.58 (0.40, 0.86) respectively.

The findings suggest that homebirths attended by midwives may be equally safe if not safer for women with low - risk pregnancies.

What is particularly infuriating about the situation is that BY DEFINITION, homebirth midwives should ONLY be attending to women with no risk factors, yet again and again we read about midwives who refuse to transfer women out of their care when red flags develop.

Midwives» Clinics for Antenatal Care Midwife - managed antenatal clinics, available under public care, are staffed by experienced midwives and are an option for women with normal, low - risk pregnancies, as assessed by the conMidwives» Clinics for Antenatal Care Midwife - managed antenatal clinics, available under public care, are staffed by experienced midwives and are an option for women with normal, low - risk pregnancies, as assessed by the conmidwives and are an option for women with normal, low - risk pregnancies, as assessed by the consultant.

But deep down I knew I wanted to be attended by midwives, who are experts in normal, low - risk birth.

Home births (relative risk [RR], 10.55) and births in free - standing birth centers (RR, 3.56) attended by midwives had a significantly higher risk of a 5 - minute Apgar score of 0 (P <.0001) than hospital births attended by physicians or midwives.

How can you trust that homebirth is safe when the most comprehensive study ever done of homebirth (and analyzed by a midwife) found that PLANNED homebirth with a LICENSED midwife has a death rate approximately 800 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth, and even MANA can't figure out how to criticize it?

One that shows the reality of the risks of home birth, the truth about lay midwives, and exposes all of the lies and damage perpetrated by Ricki Lake.

Yet time and time again I have read and written about homebirth loss mothers praising deadly midwives, praising the «experience» of a vaginal birth of a dead child, refusing to cooperate in disciplining the midwife responsible, advocating for more «freedom» for homebirth midwives, and, most grotesque of all, choosing to risk their next child's life by having a homebirth.

As uncomfortable as I was with being categorised as «high risk» and monitored by substance misuse specialist midwives / social workers, I absolutely understood the need to monitor me and my baby.

Women who are labelled as high - risk and whose births are managed by OB's have better outcomes than the low - risk women who give birth in the midwife - led part of the delivery ward.

These two units have Midwifery Led Units in which low risk women are cared for by midwives and in which there are options of labouring and birthing in water.

The problem with insisting that a woman is low risk and so being attended during pregnancy and birth by a CPM is that those midwives aren't trained to spot when there is something amiss.

Homebirth in the UK for women * who have never had a baby * but whose current pregnancy has no risk factors of any kind and who are being cared for by highly educated and highly trained midwives increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

Uk birthplace study «Homebirth in the UK for women who have had a previous completely uncomplicated pregnancy, whose current pregnancy has no risk factors of any kind, and who are being cared for by highly educated and highly trained midwives may be safe, so long as those midwives adhere to the very strict criteria in the study.

Unfortunately, the stories here tend to include high - risk women who were encouraged by (usually) under - qualified midwives to deliver at home.

They may not have chosen to report one absolute risk because they look to have had two low - risk hospital birth cohorts, those attended by OBs and those attended by hospital midwives.

The absolute risk of a baby having a 5 minute Apgar of zero is 0.16 per 1000 for those delivered by MDs in hospital, and 1.63 per 1000 for babies delivered by «home midwife» (CPM in most cases).

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Fact: Assisted home births may be beneficial to some women with midwives by their side; however, if you are a high risk pregnancy then you may be advised to give birth at the hospital where facilities are easily accessible to monitor the baby.

If all low risk women were being cared for by midwives in out of hospital settings, we would see better outcomes, healthier mamas and babies, and women would be able to tell their birth story with confidence that they had control.

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Hutton et al: Quite literally, the trend continued, in that the next study was also Canadian: «Outcomes associated with planned home and planned hospital births in low - risk women attended by midwives in Ontario, Canada, 2003 - 2006,» not surprisingly shows similar results to the Janssen study.

Women who choose nonhospital birth are not a random sample of the overall birthing population; they are self - selected, and (supposedly) carefully screened by their midwives to ensure they are «low risk.»

But midwives say women are not encouraged by their doctors to explore alternatives such as birthing centers, where low - risk women can give deliver naturally, balancing technology with a home - like environment.