Midwife - led continuity of care can be provided through
a team of midwives who share the caseload, often called «team» midwifery.
Imagine it is one midwife, or a small
team of midwives who are going to provide care to you and your baby.
Not exact matches
In terms
of your health care providers, «some families birth unassisted, while others have a
team of midwives and a doula,» says Maria Moser, a writer
who chronicles her home birth story at Change Diapers.
Asking about my
midwives and plans for my birth
team was nice, but it was also nice that instead
of asking
who was going to «deliver» my baby, they were recognizing that I was the one doing the work, and asking about
who was going to help make sure I stayed safe.
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».
To that end, I had chosen my obstetrician carefully: the only one in the Greater Cincinnati area at that time
who specialized in natural birth, having as well a
team of certified
midwives and offering a home birth option.
Expectant parents are supported by our 24 - hour
team of our board - certified obstetricians / gynecologists and our certified nurse
midwives,
who are advanced practice nurses specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at Women's Health located in Middlebury, Vermont.
We thank the North American Registry
of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in th
Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout
of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a
team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members
of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School
of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel
of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University
of North Carolina Department
of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University
of Utah College
of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University
of Ottawa Division
of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the
midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in th
midwives and mothers
who agreed to participate in the study.
Home Birth Opting for a planned home birth means your lead carer will be a self - employed community
midwife (SECM),
who may be part
of a
team or may work independently.
For two weeks after my son was born in the UK, he and I were assigned a
team of local
midwives who would visit us at home whenever we required a checkup.
In one study, support was provided by a feeding
team of staff
who had breastfeeding induction and a recognised two - day training course (Hoddinott 2012), in one study, by a nurse
who had extra breastfeeding training (Paul 2012), in one study, by a paediatrician with training in breastfeeding techniques and support to encourage breastfeeding (Serwint 1996), and in one study, by a community
midwife who had no extra training (Winterburn 2003).
I am so grateful to see this research finally published, thanks to the hard work
of the researchers, the MANA statistics
team, and the hundreds
of midwives who contributed data.
An AMIHS consists
of a community
midwife and Aboriginal health worker
team who provide community - based services to pregnant Aboriginal women in conjunction with existing medical, midwifery, paediatric and child and family health staff.