Sentences with phrase «years as a midwife»

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.

I am lucky to have been able to interact with so many babies and parents over my 30 years as a midwife so my experience has really helped me easily connect to babies and young children.»

A moving, fascinating memoir of Penny Armstrong's years as midwife to an Amish community in rural Pennsylvania.

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My midwife in particular has a 15 year background as an EMT (emergency medical technician).

• 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.

I was encouraged by her arguments for this movement, and was grateful that our ideas resonated so perfectly, as my attempts to think through this idea with homebirth midwives in previous years proved to be a catastrophically failure.

is that women be respected as full, empowered participants in their pregnancies and births; that babies be born into an atmosphere of love and reverence; that midwifery be recognized as the standard of care for all healthy women during the childbearing year; and that midwives support each other with as much passion as they support their clients, lifting each other up to maintain and improve the quality of care provided to birthing women and their families

We are so blessed to have a CNM midwife who is also an NRP instructor and an IBCLC, not to mention her years of experience as an L&D nurse before opening her own practice and all the births she has assisted!

With over twenty years of midwifery in both home and birth center practice, Constance has had the honor of attending over 1100 births as well as the privilege of having over 20 apprentices, many who are now licensed midwives.

A nurse for nearly 30 years and a CNM since 1993, Colleen has practiced in home, hospital, and birth center settings, and has attended 2000 + births as primary midwife.

In addition to her consulting work, Amy provided maternity care services to childbearing families for two years as a nurse in the postpartum and well - baby unit of a large teaching hospital and for four years as a nurse - midwife, during which she worked in the home, birth center, and hospital settings.

A few years ago, I met with a nurse - midwife for my annual screenings and as part of that discussion she reviewed my health history and current life style.

As one of of the founding members of the intentional community the Farm, Ina May and the Farm Midwives have thirty years of statistics that demonstrate the safety and benefits of natural childbirth.

Informed by years of working as a midwife, doula, and childbirth educator, she is uniquely suited to instruct yoga for the childbearing year.

Over the years as a homebirth - based midwife, I've heard many ignorant statements about the risks of homebirth.

It is based on my years of experience, as a midwife and yoga teacher, helping thousands of women tap into their calm and live and birth from a place of grounded relaxation and joy.

Jennifer and Fernando currently own and manage three birth centers in Oregon, as well as serve on the board of their birth center in Haiti, MamaBaby Haiti, where Haitian midwives provide free prenatal and postpartum care to over 5,000 women a year and attend over 500 births per year.

She worked as a labor, delivery, and postpartum nurse at Providence Newberg Hospital for 10 years while pursuing her midwifery studies through Frontier Nursing University, graduating in October 2008 as a Certified Nurse Midwife with a Masters in Nursing.

Dr. Oni graduated with honors from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona as a Naturopathic Doctor and is also a Certified Professional Midwife with 12 years of midwifery experience.

For the last 22 years I have worked as a holistic nurse midwife, then with the added expertise as a yoga teacher, advanced grad and volunteer staff of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, and Clarity Breathwork practitioner.

She didn't remind me of her 20 + years of experience attending more than 1000 births, all the success she has had as a midwife, how conservative she is about choosing to transport to the hospital if needed, etc..

Debi Benton (818)-850-2478; (818)-259-8950 www.youridealbirth.com 10 years experience as a Midwife Assistant and Master Doula.

I've seen it from the student midwife perspective ~ literally, my very first home birth ~ and from my years as an L&D nurse.

All three conspired to commit what amounts to fraud: for many years they have been deliberately hiding that homebirth with a homebirth midwife has an appalling neonatal death rate both in Oregon and in the country as a whole.

With an additional 102 in 3 years as an apprentice / assistant to another midwife, and 87 in 13 years as a doula (the timeframe overlaps with her midwife experience.)

Veronica Tingzon: Many years ago I was in Guatemala with a missionary group with my father and what not, and we did some medical stuff and there was a mother there who had just birthed a baby and the midwife or as they call the «Partera» was telling her just go ahead and feed the baby but the grandmother of the baby was saying, «no, no, no you don't want the baby to get used to the arms» and I said, «listen to the partera» and that mom was lactating probably within a little bit under two days also.

Last year, the government announced, as part of its massive health - reform package, plans for pilot projects that would lead to the licensing of midwives and their practicing in hospitals alongside doctors.

Her vision throughout her 28 years as a practicing midwife was to build a midwifery practice within an integrative center of medical and healing specialists.

Through her years as a labor and delivery nurse at White Plains Hospital, her early contacts with pioneers in obstetrics as well as her own experience as a midwife, Robin has witnessed, and contributed to, profound advancements in how women give birth.

Fourteen years ago I heard a midwife tell a teenaged mother that she would be unable to breast feed her baby as she had undergone a c - section, in spite of the fact that the girl had come prepared with breast pads, nursing bra etc..

My first experience of being involved with loss in the maternity field was as a first year student midwife.

«As a midwife for the last 14 years I have worked in many areas of maternity care, the last few years concentrating on antenatal and postnatal care.

The U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding notes that several health organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Nurse - Midwives, American Dietetic Association and American Public Health Association all recommend that most infants be breastfed for a minimum of one year, with the first six months exclusively breast milk.

The current standards for an entry - level certified professional midwife indicate that she can begin practicing after having attended as few as 55 births over the course of several years.

As a Certified Nurse Midwife for nearly 20 years, Melanie has had the honor of supporting thousands of women from a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds throughout their pregnancies and childbirth experiences.

Continuity of care is a key and deliberate feature of the model of midwifery care in BC and to achieve this, midwives work as solo practitioners or in teams of up to four midwives, each midwife can provide care for a caseload of up to 60 women each year, and each midwife is compensated per «course of care» through the province's universal health insurance (Medical Services Plan).

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

It is with dismay that I have listened, for the past five years or so, to direct - entry midwives criticizing nurse - midwives as «medwives» and «physician extenders,» and to nurse - midwives talking about professional direct - entry midwives as if they don't know very much, and working in some states to pass exclusionary laws.

She has worked as a midwife for almost 25 years both in England and in the Edmonton area (Birth Choices Midwifery, Shared Care Maternity Program, Westside Midwives).

God knows how many midwives had presented themselves as experts over the years without even having that.

all midwives in canada under go 4 years of schooling, are registered with the college of midwives as well as work in hospitals, birth centres, home births clinics etc. 5.

She has attended births as midwife, apprentice, birth assistant and labor support in homes and in United States and Caribbean hospitals over the years.

A study large enough to compare perinatal death rates accurately, if the annual rate of home births with regulated midwives in BC were to remain the same as it is today, would require 7 — 8 years of data collection.

Of course we will unfortunately encounter such situations throughout our careers as midwives and I don't believe it is something to be shielded from even as a first year student.

In the past year, a for - profit chain called Baby + Company has built birth centers in five U.S. cities that combine product sales and educational classes with service providers such as doulas, lactation consultants and midwives who offer unmedicated delivery in a «spa - like environment.»

Just last year, your predecessor as Director of Research Peggy Garland notified homebirth midwives:

When we moved to Dubai in 2010, both my girls were in school or nursery and I decided it was time to get back to work, but discovered that Dubai would not license me as a midwife because I had taken more than 2 years off.

Andrea is excited to expand her support to Los Angeles families by serving them as an evidence based, inclusive midwife in the next year.

Working with thousands of women over the past 25 years as a Nurse Midwife and Lactation Consultant, I have found that the best way to achieve breastfeeding success is to «equip» yourself with the BEST tool available... KNOWLEDGE!

For several years, I joined homebirth midwives in guild meetings, workshops, conferences, listservs, and assisted them as they cared for women, or worked alongside them as I offered my doula skills to their clients.