Sentences with phrase «well as a midwife»

One of the most unpalatable lessons of history is that evil is often perpetrated by people who think they are doing good as midwives of progress, agents of natural selection, saviors of Christendom — whatever.

So, if you're considering home birth, make sure you have a supportive, informed, engaged partner, and that you both have unwavering confidence in your chosen birth space, as well as midwives with which you have an established, unwavering, trusting relationship.

These ten main knowledge and expertise skill sets I wish I had when I embarked on the journey of starting and growing my own private midwifery practice are among the sort of guidanceI am passionate about providing to prospective, student, and new midwives, as well as any midwife who wants to start a practice or improve an existing one.

In addition, you need to check with your insurance company to ascertain if they cover you for home births as well as a midwife.

At home, she is surrounded by her chosen birth team, which may include family and friends as well as her midwives.

Kim Watkins is a certified professional midwife (CPM) as well as a midwife licensed to practice midwifery by the State of Texas.

My husband, who I am lucky is stable, will be with me as well as our midwife.

Not exact matches

He takes up the well - known idea of revolution as the midwife of history.

December's decision by the Supreme Court, against the midwives, served as a crucial indicator of where we stand in relation to upholding the common good.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

I was able to share my anxieties about me and my wife potentially feeling isolated, as she is from overseas and wasn't going to have her family around her — and it was good to be able to say this without feeling like I was being over-anxious in front a midwife.

Tomorrow evening, Jan. 2, barring any late - breaking big news stories, ABC's 20/20 is set to air an episode featuring segments on long - term (extended) breastfeeding, as well as home birth (both with and without midwives), serial surrogates (women that have numerous babies for other women), «fake babies» (life - like dolls), and orgasmic birth.

She had such a wonderful experience that when I was pregnant with my second child, I decided to leave my new OB (even though she was a far cry better than my previous one) and have a midwife - attended home birth as well.

There are several noted certified nurse - midwife practices and plenty of lay midwives as well.

Will this help bring midwives more respect as we have better c - section rates and still maintain excellent outcomes nationwide?

As always, it is best to check with your doctor, midwife or aroma therapist before incorporating tea tree oil or any essential oil into your skin care regime.

Midwives, hospitals and unattended as well.

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.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

Up until the 50s most women in the UK gave birth at home, and most were only attended by a female friend or relative, or a «self - titled» untrained midwife, and it was completely down to luck as to how good, or bad she was.

She trained with Birth Arts International for her Labor Support Training and is completing her midwife assistant training with them as well.

We need to ensure that midwives are competent in caring for mothers and babies in emergency situations, as well as to provide a safe, sanitary environment in which to practice if the social stigma is going to change.

Many midwives offer similar services and have similar philosophies but we do differ, ask lots of questions and choose someone you think you can work well with as a team.

Her bed had been raised by putting beer crates underneath it (raising the bed is stand ard practise in The Netherland s as it facilitates things a bit for the midwife and also puts the bed at a good «lean - on» height for labouring mama).

As we mentioned in How To Prepare Your Best For Your Home Birth, most of our local Registered Midwives strongly encourage their home birth clients to hire a doula.

Our attention, as midwives, has always focused more on the practice because the demands are more vital and well, it is our primary passion, but it is our hope we can bring in some lovely women and men into the boutique to help nurture its growth and ultimately, the growth of our community of families.

A procedure is the main service clinicians provide, such as maternity care or well woman care and as an adjunct to that care, the midwife may provide additional services such as fetal well - being testing, hydrotherapy or one - on - one on - going assessment.

If you are considering breastfeeding during pregnancy, or advising a woman who is, it's ideal to have an obstetrician or midwife who can consider the genuine medical research on safety, as well as the overwhelming research on the continued benefit of long term nursing to the older child.

I am so thankful for the good midwife we have found, as well as the incredible assistants she has, and also for the good birth experiences.

As a nurse - midwife I would want to better understand my client's nutritional status and particularly, if she is inclined to blood sugar irregularities.

Since she (herself a homebirth midwife as well as an anthropologist) is part of the subculture she is investigating, she does not question the meanings, the meaning - making or the relationship of such meaning - making to reality.

Drawing on her own experience, as well as that of obstetricians, midwives, nutritionists, holistic health counselors, and others, Silverstone offers advice on getting one's «baby house» in order through nutrient - rocking foods that heal and nourish, and, once pregnant, gentle ways to boost comfort, energy, and health during each trimester.

And no, that did not happen in the US but the UK where midwives are so well trained and so compassionate as to feel that a father who lost his son to a preventable death with midwives was a bother with his pecky insistence that risk mattered.

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 certified nurse - midwives offer prenatal care, delivery, postpartum, newborn, and well - woman care, as well as fertility services including intrauterine insemination, all in the comfort and privacy of your home.

CDC data shows that neonatal mortality is about half as high with CNM and «other» midwives (there's no direct entry of homebirth category) as it is for MDs for all births, as well as by weeks gestation.

This attitude is best illustrated by the perjorative appellation of certified nurse midwives as «medwives.»

The hospital I went to works with midwives as well.

Melissa Cheyney is an anthropologist at Oregon State University as well as a home - birth advocate and midwife.

This story also hits close to home as the midwives involved are ones that I know well and who are still practicing.

The Midwives in USA are well trained whether trained as a nurse midwife or as a lay midwife.

They assured me that they'd send a midwife out as soon as my surges got to one in 6; they had one ready who knew the area really well so to phone back as soon as things became regular

These are the changes envisaged: • comprehensive new information about the changes produced and given to both parents • midwives encouraged to inform parents about registration — and the benefits of both parents» signing • the opportunity for fathers to register ante-natally in the health service records alongside the mother • training for registrars in the new way of engaging with both parents • community outreach to reach fathers as well as mothers • an «acknowledgement of paternity» event at the birth where father and mother could jointly sign a form.

I also got a small breast infection which my midwife suggested I treat by eating raw garlic and pumping but I was totally clueless on that as well until it happened to me.

Midwives and nurses are trained to spot men, as well as women, with signs of stress and post-natal depression.

I will refrain from writing my own due to the length of the discussion board as it is, but I do want to express a few thoughts: - Because of the «breast is best» campaign, I firmly believe that even if doctors, pediatricians, midwives et cetera know about the real trouble that many women have BF, they will not say anything so that moms still try.

In California's Central Valley, Colleen developed a county - wide educational track for nurses to train as midwives in order to help reduce high pre-term birth and teen pregnancy rates in Kern County, and provided well woman and prenatal care in a community health center primarily serving migrant farm workers.

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.

They staff OB / GYN physicians, Certified Nurse Midwives, as well as Women's Health Nurse Practitioners.

Despite what midwives and research say, breast feeding does NOT come naturally to everyone and as research has shown it is also not necessarily the best and only way forward.