Sentences with phrase «seeing a midwife for»

Personally, when I saw my midwife for my prenatal care I felt like a real person, rather than just a number (which is how I felt at one OB's practice, that I left I might add).

If you've been seeing a midwife for your early prenatal care, the discovery that you're carrying twins will mean taking another look at your plans.

In the Netherlands or the UK, if you want to have a home birth, you see a midwife for prenatal care.

I also saw my midwife for prenatal visits that last month (but had kept in contact with her throughout the pregnancy as well), unsure until the very end whether I wanted to go to the hospital or try for another homebirth.

She believes strongly in the community midwifery model, and wants to see a midwife for every neighborhood (and she hopes to do her part in training more Traditional Midwives!).

Not exact matches

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.

His young mind just thinks mommy / daddy is leaving... (IMO) After this fight we worked hard speaking with midwives and more experienced parents (FTM) to make this solution which works for us: 8:00 pm dinner 8:30 pm bathtime atleast 30 mins worth of play 9:00 pm dry off and last drink (milk with local honey (during teething we add chamomile per midwife's suggestions) 9:10 pm complete blackout besides one light in kitchen to be able to see bedtime storys and lullyby 9:30 pm he is out for the night.

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.

Throughout my pregnancy Michael and I had been seeing just the one midwife so we felt very relaxed and comfortable with her and were looking forward to having her and my sister around for the birth at home.

Recently, it is being advocated by eminent paediatric surgeons and lactation consultants who see a role for trained midwives, nurses and lactation consultants in using this simple and effective method of releasing a tight frenum that is inhibiting breastfeeding in neonates.

I think we need to see that midwives are for uncomplicated healthy pregnancies and ob / gyn are for high risk pregnancies.

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.

To blame the doctors who saw the woman a week before her collapse and absolve the midwife who cared for her at the time of birth is bizarre.

When I switched from my midwife to my doctor, I asked for my records from my birth with my first son... that way, the doc could see them and be watchful or whatever with my 2nd son... what did the midwife give me?

Find out how midwives differ from ob - gyns and family physicians and see what kind of caregiver would be best for you during pre...

I have yet to see any midwife who is destroyed by the unnecessary death of a child — they all have crap to say about how sad it is that they didn't make it earthside, blah blah blah, but I have yet to see even one of these stories where she takes full responsiblity for her actions or lack thereof.

You will probably be seen for your first appointment between 8 and 10 weeks gestation, though you may be seen earlier if you're having problems or if it's your doctor or midwife's policy.

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.

Seeing the 7 - week sonogram wasn't totally futile though, because it added to my reason for leaving this doctor and going to a midwife.

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.

Perhaps a debrief for every birth would be helpful — it could be part of the postnatal midwife visits — I would have liked to have seen my UK labour notes (got given a copy for free in NZ).

See the certified nurse midwives at The Women's Center for well woman care, contraceptive options, menopause care, and treatment of problem gynecologic conditions and diseases.

Here is your chance to meet the midwives and see if midwifery and home birth is for you!

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.

Data collection forms for the study were designed to be started by the midwife providing intrapartum care, to accompany the woman if she was transferred, and to be completed on or after the fifth postnatal day (see appendix 3 on bmj.com).

One could speculate about differences in skill levels — the hospital midwife probably sees more deliveries, and more complicated ones, for example — but the training and registration requirements are the same.

Only when midwives and obstetricians start working in partnership, and valuing each other's roles in supporting women, do we see women offered genuine choices, and offered the best care for themselves and their unborn baby (One example of research supporting this: Colter 2014, «Midwife - Physician collaboration — a conceptual framework for inter-professional collaborative practice»).

Your midwife will assess you individually to see if you are suitable for a home birth.

The hospital midwives will care for you during labour and birth and, in most cases, you may not need to see a doctor at all.

Still, I was curious to see if home birth could be an option for me with my new midwives.

The skill of a midwife is evident when you see a father actively involved in the birthing process, perhaps a bit shaken, but present and accounted for.

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.

Losing my son (3rd child) at 43 weeks during labor, was attempting a home birth vba2c, his passing was NOT due to me attempting a vaginal birth or a home birth, in fact when we attempt to have our 4th child I will be going for a vba3c, I am so supported through this by the women in my local homebirth group, it has allowed me to see the sun in the storm, I have started a charity in my sons name to help women get a doula or midwife when they would not be able to afford their services other wise.

I would love to see a system here similar to Canada, where the midwifery training includes cross-training in home, birth center, and hospital settings, allowing midwives to care for women in all locales.

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

When her obstetrician suggested she might be headed for a C - section, her doula, Stefanie Antunes, remembered a maneuver she'd seen midwives use to get a reluctant baby to come through the birth canal.

Find a local midwife and ask for their advice early on to see if you can avoid the hospital scene.

I so enjoyed seeing Dr. Gena again, we met for the first time at Natural Birthworks Birth Center in Margate at an amazing and informative VBAC workshop that home birth midwives Gelena Hinkley and Sandra Lobaina organized and held several months back.

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 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 for a natural labour which had gone swimmingly he wouldn't even have needed to attend because the midwives would have looked after me.

If your midwife doesn't have hospital privileges, you can write down in detail what you will be transferring for and how you will get there but ultimately what happens is either midwife calls 911 because something is wrong OR midwife calls local hospitals seeing who has enough staff and beds to take someone.

This has seen the Royal College of Midwives, for example, remove formula advertising from its journal and formula company stands from its conferences.

Everything I'd read and heard leading up until the birth was about how important breastmilk was for you baby («Breast is best»), and then all of a sudden all the health professionals I saw (GP, midwife, lactation consultant etc.) were saying «don't worry about it, just give him formula».

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.

For sample Pregnancy 1, women who saw midwives with appointment times of < 15 minutes had a median MADM score of 30, compared to a median MADM score of 23 among those who saw obstetricians, and 22 among women who saw family physicians during short appointments.

MADM median scores were highest among women who were cared for by midwives, and 10 or more points lower for those who saw physicians.

See our Facebook page: «Prima Midwives of Marin» or call Sheri Matteo, CNM: 415-842-5107 for more information.

Despite this, Scharnberg's story was one of the first in which I've seen the media accurately report on the different types of midwives in the U.S. and bring attention to the struggle for self - determination among childbearing women.

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.

My midwife suggested that i saw someone that specific that deals with this particular condition, I saw someone which unfortunately I had to pay for who does «Bowen Technique» if you have the money to try this I'd highly recommend it.