Sentences with phrase «see midwives as»

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Then, it began to feel as if I saw my midwife more often than I picked up my mail.

«When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.»

prego I was told by my midwife she could no longer see me as she had an ongoing legal battle that had come to light.

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.

She doesn't believe in routine circumcision, but has seen many circumcised boys in her years as a midwife, and even acted as a mohel for a while.

When I brought up to my midwife & my birthing assistants that we wanted to have a quiet birth with as little talking as possible, they actually thought it was sort of funny — seeing as they're all Bradley Method trained, they're already planning to do that anyhow.

I'm so tempted to find a few local MANA homebirth midwives and see if they would take me on as a client.

These reconstructed «natural facts,» while equally socially embedded relative to more medicalized perspectives, are seen by midwives as essential components of the foundation needed for «trusting birth outside the hospital» once labor begins.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

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.

The refusal to see a doctor (with some women even refusing to see a midwife) can be explained as the inevitable result of regarding even the possibility of pregnancy complications as personal criticism, combined with the inability to tolerate criticism of any kind.

If you need to explain it, it's where you see one midwife throughout your pregnancy and she is on call for your birth, some of the hospitals offer homebirths through this program as well.

Assuming you haven't developed any complications and you've continued to see your midwife, she may end up delivering your babies as long as they're both in the optimal head - down position and your labor goes smoothly.

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.

And, when we have a baby born very early, or with a true issue, or even if we just need some advanced assessment because of something we have identified, I hope that someday we can be seen as members of the care team, not «the rougue midwives» who bring in «all those sick babies».

As epidural analgesia has been shown in randomised trials to reduce the likelihood of a normal vaginal delivery this could contribute to the variation in normal delivery rates seen.28 Indeed, medicalisation of the environment could be the dominant effect in the United Kingdom, over-riding potential benefits of continuity and «knowing your midwife.»

The midwives seek to create a bond with the mother, in that way they will see them as a friend who is there to help at any moment and to whom they can go when they feel they can not do it.

Whether you are giving birth or seeing your child through an illness or after surgery, you want to choose a hospital that has outstanding physicians and midwives as well as warm caring nurses who are the cream of the crop.

You can meet a few doctors and midwives to ask questions and see if you «click», as well as get a feel for how their office functions.

By sharing stories like this one, people can start to see that my experiences as a midwife were far from unique.

So far insurance is paying my midwife as if she was my doctor and she has waived co-payments (since she just charges a flat fee) and says that we will balance everything out after we see what insurance pays after the 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.

I don't see it as midwives sitting on their hands, refusing to help save babies; rather, that they do their best, and usually are more effective than a completely untrained person would be in that situation, but that they do not have the tools to save as many babies as the doctors and nurses in the hospital would be able to.

My midwives were scrupulous about the risk screening to a degree I now see as very impressive.

A separate scenario — but one that I also struggle with — is when I see moms desperately seeking midwives in the final days or weeks of their pregnancy to take them on as a home birth patient just because that's what they want so.

We have a pool on loan from our midwives and we're doing a practice run as I write this, to see how long it takes to fill up.

The midwives won't transfer because they won't get paid, and the mother will resist transfer because she'll be painted as a failure and she sees the beautiful birth she's built up in her mind slipping from her fingers.

And I think, again, I see the model practice as one that gives the woman the greatest number of choices, a model practice where you actually have the time and the capacity on the patient's part to understand the risks and benefits of each of the subsequent choices to have a relatively smooth system, which can transfer from one model of birth to another without extensive delays and then — and so I think giving the mom the greatest number of choices and having midwives and physicians speaking to each other at the time of either the initial patient's choice for method of delivery or at the beginning of the labor process.

Midwives do nt see themselves as the superior.

And more importantly, rather than just comparing home vs hospital overall, it compared midwife - led vs OB - led births at home vs hospital (as you should well know, in the Netherlands, low - risk women see a midwife, full stop — you have to be high - risk to see an OB, so hospital births are a combination of low - risk women under midwife care and high - risk women under OB care).

For me, it means I'm under consultant - lead care, and see specialists and an obstetrician as well as a normal midwife.

I've seen it from the student midwife perspective ~ literally, my very first home birth ~ and from my years as an L&D nurse.

My OB saw me as a private patient FOR FREE because he's a family friend, and if I had opted for a natural labour which had gone swimmingly he wouldn't even have needed to attend because the midwives would have looked after me.

As horrifying as it sounds when you're not in labour, trust us, if it does happen during labour, it will be the last thing on your mind, and the doctors and midwives see it all the timAs horrifying as it sounds when you're not in labour, trust us, if it does happen during labour, it will be the last thing on your mind, and the doctors and midwives see it all the timas it sounds when you're not in labour, trust us, if it does happen during labour, it will be the last thing on your mind, and the doctors and midwives see it all the time.

and figured I would see how it went but since I had been trained as a doula and midwife that I would be able to relax and use what I had learned.

I have been on both sides, as a doula and student midwife and now as the nurse who sees the train wreck home birth transfers wheeled into the ER.

Still, the midwife stayed on as mom's doula, and they waited to see how long the twins would stay in.

We need people on our team and this can include our partner, a doula, a midwife — others who see birth as a natural beautiful thing, who share our beliefs, who believe in our ability to birth a baby, and who will help us achieve our best birth.

The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women whose labor has been jump - started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).

My midwife was committed to keeping the medical intervention as limited as possible and assured us that as soon as labor kicked in, we could move over to the birth center and continue as we saw fit.

As my midwife checked all of our vitals, my older children came to see their seconds - old baby brother.

So I have seen many sides of this issue — as an unlicensed midwife and now a licensed midwife, and also as a parent who chose home birth for my three children.

Midwifery advocates often cite what they see as the biggest irony of anti-midwife laws like the one in Missouri: that a good Samaritan who helps a woman deliver her baby on the side of a road or in a taxi cab is not subject to prosecution, but that a trained midwife who helps a woman carefully plan her out - of - hospital birth is.

As an experienced midwife, I feel excited that the messages fit with what I've seen & lived for 3 decades.

Though the push for «better» birth experiences is well - intentioned, it means that midwife - assisted birth can end up being seen as something worth striving for no matter what, or something that is inherently superior to hospital births with an OB (in the same way that breastfeeding and vaginal births are sometimes seen as superior to bottle - feeding and C - sections).

Sarah Pursell: I did, I saw a certified nurse, midwife just a whole regular I did everything by the book as far as prenatal care.

As not all midwifery provision is caseload, it is currently impossible to have an assigned MW as lead, because women may not see the same midwifAs not all midwifery provision is caseload, it is currently impossible to have an assigned MW as lead, because women may not see the same midwifas lead, because women may not see the same midwife.

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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.