And the options that women have in the D.C. are that they can have their baby
with a midwife in the hospital.
For my next births I birthed
with a midwife in a hospital.
Did you have your baby
with a midwife in a hospital?
If anything above and beyond what we could handle at home happened, I had a relationship
with midwives in a hospital - based practice, and an emergency room was a 6 - minute drive away.
Not exact matches
The largest study of its kind has found that for low - risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so
in hospital with a
midwife.
I have birthed
in the
hospital with CNM's twice, once at home
with a lay
midwife and 4 times unassisted.
Having said that, I'm lucky that I'll be delivering
in a small local
hospital with a
midwife, and the OB won't appear unless there is a problem so the situation here is a bit different.
I was
in a
hospital with a doula and a
midwife.
I have a history of very short labors and I have every intention of having my baby
in the
hospital with a
midwife attending.
• 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.
What if the HB
midwife could have admitting privileges, properly evaluate, and offer the mother a TOL
in the
hospital with back up right there?
In other countries, such as Germany, a
midwife comes to your home once you return from the
hospital to provide you and your newborn
with additional support.
That's when my lovely notion of a natural birth
in a tub of water
with a gentle but fierce
midwife gave way to a «baby's heart can't handle the contractions» C - section
in the
hospital.
Have you been
in contact
with your doctor,
midwife or someone at the
hospital?
This poses the question then if the Wax (2010) study is not specific to whether home birth is safe
in comparison to
hospital birth, but if outcomes correlate
with the type of
midwife (level of training) and acceptance of out - of -
hospital birth
in the larger healthcare system?
If I had been
in Switzerland, I would have still been
in the
hospital,
with lovely
midwives there to take care of me and meals brought round three times per day.
Hutton EK, Reitsma AH, Kaufman K. Outcomes associated
with planned home and planned
hospital births
in low - risk women attended by
midwives in Ontario, Canada, 2003 — 2006: a retrospective cohort study.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down
with Adrienne Jones, Certified Nurse
Midwife (CNM) and chat with her about maternity care, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas (otherwise known at Presby Dallas) and her new role as a midwife serving at one of the biggest hospitals in the Dallas and Fort Wort
Midwife (CNM) and chat
with her about maternity care, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas (otherwise known at Presby Dallas) and her new role as a
midwife serving at one of the biggest hospitals in the Dallas and Fort Wort
midwife serving at one of the biggest
hospitals in the Dallas and Fort Worth area.
After a diagnostic ultrasound
with an OB at the delivery
hospital, I was placed
in the group that is low risk enough to be cared for primarily by
midwives during delivery.
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).
Low risk birth
in the Netherlands at home
with a
midwife is more likely to result
in a DEAD baby than high risk birth
in a
hospital with a doctor.
The
midwives I had before (one
in hospital and one at home) told me what to do and therefore I lost all sense
with myself.
And this paper
in the BMJ suggest low risk moms
with midwives at home have a higher mortality rate than all the high risk moms
in hospitals.
Homebirth
with American homebirth
midwives has almost triple the neonatal mortality rate for low risk
hospital birth
in the US.
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.
In a home birth you usually don't have to go to the hospital (though there's at least a 1 in 10 chance that you will), but you or yours have to buy all kinds of crap beforehand (birthing pool, pads for protecting your bedsheets from blood...), then clean up after labor, make food and clean up after each meal, talk with the midwife or whoever is attending you (husband?
In a home birth you usually don't have to go to the
hospital (though there's at least a 1
in 10 chance that you will), but you or yours have to buy all kinds of crap beforehand (birthing pool, pads for protecting your bedsheets from blood...), then clean up after labor, make food and clean up after each meal, talk with the midwife or whoever is attending you (husband?
in 10 chance that you will), but you or yours have to buy all kinds of crap beforehand (birthing pool, pads for protecting your bedsheets from blood...), then clean up after labor, make food and clean up after each meal, talk
with the
midwife or whoever is attending you (husband??)
That was my experience
in hospital in Australia
with my last baby — although my little boy was delivered by two
midwives and not an OB (he had examined me when i came
in for the induction and been consulted on a couple things throughout the labour).
If you choose an accredited birth center, you'll be cared for by licensed professionals, usually a
midwife and a nurse,
with a backup
hospital nearby and a doctor on call
in case of an emergency.
We have a birth center that is wildly popular
with the younger generation (like
in their 20's) it's run by a lay
midwife, and our
hospital birth center takes
in their patients whose births are going wrong.
My wife and I had our first 2
in a
hospital and it almost killed them because of the drugs they forced on my wife the last 2 were born at home
in a pool the 1st homebirth we had a
midwife present the 2nd one the
midwife was an hour and a half late so I delivered our daughter by myself it was awsome and now my wife is PG
with our 5th baby we have the same
midwife who was late to our last birth and we already know she is not going to be here ontime mostly because she lives 2 hours away from where we live and we are ok
with this.
And even if a
hospital or
midwife admits fault
in the case of a death or injury, the consequences still lie
with the parents.
This comes on top of the already - existing divide between the two views of childbirth,
with midwives emphasizing the safety of natural births
in a familiar, comfortable setting, while the American Medical Association contends women are best off
in a
hospital, where life - saving technology is nearby if something goes awry.
My experience
with a
midwife at a
hospital ended
in a c - section and I have not had a home birth, so I will not speak
in depth to either of those options.)
Certified Nurse
Midwife Naomi Hannah, CNM, explains the midwife intervention rates when having your baby in the hospital with a
Midwife Naomi Hannah, CNM, explains the
midwife intervention rates when having your baby in the hospital with a
midwife intervention rates when having your baby
in the
hospital with a
midwifemidwife
Rachel Ambler, Consultant
Midwife in Public Health, The Whittington
Hospital, London: «Like every maternity unit, we have contact
with fathers every day.
This new set of NICE guidelines concluded that healthy women
with straightforward pregnancies are safer to give birth at home, or
in a
midwife - led birth centre, than at a
hospital with the care of an obstetrician.
Most women choose to give birth
in hospital but some opt for home births; if you want to have a home birth it is advisable to discuss this
with your
midwife.
If you decide to see a
midwife, be sure to choose someone who is experienced
with twins and has admitting privileges at a
hospital with a level III neonatal nursery,
in case of preterm delivery or other complications.
Some
midwives who work
in hospitals have collaborative agreements
with obstetricians who support and consult on
midwife - managed twin pregnancies.
I stayed 24 hours
in hospital after birth and during that time I asked four
Midwife's to watch me feed, each of them all said he's latching fine but still I knew and felt something was wrong
with his feeding.
I do think working
with a
midwife, but
in a
hospital that supported natural child birth and caring, respectful nurses made it more possible and likely that I had positive and minimally invasive birth experiences.
this is a great example of how competent, well - trained
midwives are able to deal (at home)
with many «issues» that ppl often assume can only be dealt
with in the
hospital.
«The sheer magnitude of numbers
in de Jonge et al. — over half a million
midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or
in the
hospital — combined
with a true comparison group (low - risk, women who chose
hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and
hospital groups, attended by the same group of
midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»
But after hanging out around our house, confirming
with a simple test that I was
in fact leaking amniotic fluid, and consulting
with our
midwives, my husband and I headed to the
hospital that evening to have our daughter.
The authors concluded that the decision to plan a birth attended by a registered
midwife at home versus
in the
hospital was associated
with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death.
Women who planned a home birth were at reduced risk of all obstetric interventions assessed and were at similar or reduced risk of adverse maternal outcomes compared
with women who planned to give birth
in hospital accompanied by a
midwife or physician.
I was
in so much pain I didn't think I could endure it but before I knew it I was on the
hospital bed at 10 cm dilated
with my husband at my head, my doula on the right side, L&D nurse on the left, and my
midwife ready to catch our baby.
In a randomised controlled trial comparing community based care with standard hospital care a significant difference in caesarean section rates was found (13.3 % v 17.8 % respectively).29 Planning a home birth30 or booking for care at a midwife led birth centre is also associated with lower operative delivery rate
In a randomised controlled trial comparing community based care
with standard
hospital care a significant difference
in caesarean section rates was found (13.3 % v 17.8 % respectively).29 Planning a home birth30 or booking for care at a midwife led birth centre is also associated with lower operative delivery rate
in caesarean section rates was found (13.3 % v 17.8 % respectively).29 Planning a home birth30 or booking for care at a
midwife led birth centre is also associated
with lower operative delivery rates.
In some
hospitals there may be medical or midwifery students working
with the doctors and
midwives.
Flint and colleagues suggested that when
midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice,
with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %,
with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated
with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation
in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's
Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.