Sentences with phrase «said practicing midwife»

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We would go to the communities, my lead midwife and I and sometimes one of the hospitalists would go to the practice sites of particular community midwives and we would say «What did we do well?

At around 20 weeks, I switched from the OB practice to my midwife, and the rest, as they say, is history.

I chatted with Melissa Lawlor, a midwife in the Hudson Valley, who says a birth plan is individual to the woman's past experiences, current belief systems (i.e. vaccines, pain medicine, etc.), and the medical practice she's using.

The AAP policy statement is just a first pass and it basically says that homebirth as it is practiced in the US is unsafe, that CPMs aren't real midwives and that homebirths ought to be regulated in the exact same way that they are in other industrialized countries.

Most reports say the woman was turned down by another midwife practice as too risky.

If medical malpractice were required for midwives, it would pretty much be the end of homebirths, because homebirths are more or less way outside the scope of standard medical practice, so every time it goes bad, all the plaintiff has to do is to put any doctor on the stand and say, «Doctor, can you indicate whether the homebirth was warranted?»

They says forcing midwives to carry insurance would ruin their practices.

Michele Champagne, president of the Quebec Alliance of Practicing Midwives, said: «Midwives are not endangering the lives of women and children any more than doctors are, and to suggest otherwise is a lie.»

«If Yvonne is convicted, midwives everywhere will stop practicing or else go underground to avoid prosecution and litigation,» said Kathleen Adams, a Genoa City, Wis., woman who delivered her two youngest children at home with the aid of lay midwives.

«I think it «s backward of the state to think we «re uneducated, «said Mary Sommers, 31, a traditional midwife who has practiced for eight years.

You're right, I have a lot of anger toward you and the midwives you practice with if you really are killing as many babies as you have said.

What is great about this study is it gives mothers some numbers,» said Melissa Cheyney, a practicing midwife in Oregon and a medical anthropologist.

Cheyney said she thought the study would motivate midwives to study their own practices to look for areas where they might be able to improve.

She said that Vicki, the other midwife, was out of town and so was Suzanne, a classmate of mine who also covered their practice.

``... [T] heir train wreck or their disaster shows up at my doorstep and I become responsible for their irresponsibility,» said an Indiana - based obstetrician, who believes homebirth midwives do not practice an appropriate standard of care.

Nurse - midwife Megan Sapp, CNM, FNP, says her Maryland - based practice sees about 40 % of patients using hypnobirthing, another 40 % using the Bradley method, and the rest using other methods including Lamaze, meditative calm birthing, Birthing from Within, and more.

I helped start a homebirth practice with my Midwife and was also one of her apprentice for two years; it was then that I discovered a more sacred way to birth when I first heard undisturbed birth by Micheal Ordent and I said OMG this is what I've been searching for, I then saw a flyer for a workshop by Whapio at the Matrona and one of the Granny Midwives, Granny Smith and a local elder Midwife was going to be honored there and I said I have to go and meet them.

I've met a few who described their birth experience as amazing (most of them were homebirths or in birth centers — which are a fringe practice here too, but at least with real, medically trained midwives), but I wasn't there so I can't say how much of that was reality vs. glossing over it, and how the birth REALLY went safety-wise.

«There is no other profession where you have to ask permission from someone who is a competitor in order to practice your trade,» said Finn, a member of the board of the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives.

If you're just getting a yeast infection treated, say, then it's fine to see a family - practice MD, nurse practitioner or nurse - midwife, Dr. Nardone says.

The office of Dr. Said M. Ali Obstetrics and Gynecology welcomes Carol DeHaven, Certified Nurse Midwife, to our growing practice as we continue to welcome NEW and EXISTING patients.