Sentences with phrase «studying home birth midwifery»

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Homebirth and midwifery advocates point with pride to a recent study that showed that homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands is as safe as hospital birth with a midwife (Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529 688 low - risk planned home and hospital births).

The study was a prospective cohort study with planned place of birth at the start of care in labour as the exposure (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit, or obstetric unit).12 Women were included in the group in which they planned to give birth at the start of care in labour regardless of whether they were transferred during labour or immediately after birth.

Outcomes of intended home births in nurse - midwifery practice: a prospective descriptive study.

11 12 This contrasts with the Netherlands, for instance, where home midwifery caseloads of more than 100 births a year are common.16 It is not known, however, if practitioners in our study also practised in other settings.

of Vermont («Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of North American Midwives»); Jess Fallon, Women's Studies, Wesleyan; Pamela Klassen, Religion, Drew University (spirituality in home birth); Maureen May, Syracuse University (midwifery politics and legislation in New York state); Christina Player (midwifery politics in Massachusetts); Melissa Denmark, University of Florida (the development of direct - entry midwifery legislation in Florida); Fern McGill, Antioch University (an investigation of feminist positions on childbirth), Kate Masley (the political economy of reproduction in Honduras and in Cleveland, Ohio), and others not listed here; and as an informal advisor to dozens more.

In this study of the cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in England in women at low risk of complications before the onset of labour, we found that the cost of intrapartum and after birth care, and associated related complications, was less for births planned at home, in a free standing midwifery unit, or in an alongside midwifery unit compared with planned births in an obstetric unit.

Setting 142 of 147 trusts providing home birth services, 53 of 56 freestanding midwifery units, 43 of 51 alongside midwifery units, and a random sample of 36 of 180 obstetric units, stratified by unit size and geographical region, in England, over varying periods of time within the study period 1 April 2008 to 30 April 2010.

The cohort study aimed to collect data in every NHS trust in England that provides home birth services, every free standing midwifery unit, every alongside midwifery unit, and a random sample of obstetric units, stratified by unit size and geographical region, over varying periods of time within the study period (1 April 2008 to 31 April 2010).

A secondary analysis of data from the prospective observational Birthplace in England study found that immersion was associated with significant reductions in antepartum transfers to hospitals for planned home births, freestanding midwifery unit births, and alongside midwifery unit births (2).

[8] Murphy PA, Fullerton J. Outcomes of intended home births in nurse - midwifery practices: a prospective descriptive study.

In a study reported in the January / February 1999 issue of the Journal of Nurse - Midwifery, 2 in every 1,000 home births (with certified nurse midwives) resulted in the death of the baby, either during labor or within a month after birth, compared with 2.2 deaths per 1,000 hospital births.

The study, published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health on Thursday, looked at the home birth outcomes for roughly 17,000 women as recorded in the Midwives Alliance of North America data collection system between 2004 and 2009.

Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

In today's peer - reviewed Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (JMWH), a landmark study confirms that among low - risk women, planned home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies.

In a study of 1001 home births in the Toronto area before the regulation of midwifery, the transport rate during labour and post partum was 16.5 %.8 In other national, population - based studies of planned home births, rates of intrapartum transport ranged from 14.5 % in Australia9 to 20.3 % in the Netherlands.3

Our study has evaluated outcomes during the first 2 years of implementation of midwifery, including home birth, in BC.

Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

According to this study by The Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, the success rate of VBACs at a planned home birth was also 87 %.

She started attending births in 2005 while studying at Maternidad La Luz Midwifery School on the U.S. / Mexico border and continued attending home and birth center births during her training in Seattle.