…but it’s written by a doula who works in the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas.
It seems like doctors and hospitals do all that they can to disempower women and make them believe that they are helpless and “sick.”
Abuse. That really is the only word for it.
My latest e-mail from Midwifery Today had information on this online infant CPR course. The course is done completely online and while it used to cost $13.95, it is now free!
From the website:
Each year thousands of infants and young children die from choking, drowning, and suffocation. In most of these emergencies the child’s life could be saved if a Parent or Loved one knew CPR…
Online Baby CPR is owned by a dad who knows parents and soon-to-be parents have limited time and money. That is why we make it easy to learn infant child CPR from your home for free.
Now there is no more need to schedule a class, get a baby sitter, drive to the class, pay $50 for a class, sit in class for four hours, drive home, pay the babysitter for watching your kid. Just click on Learn Now and you can make your home a safer place!
Although I am already certified in infant CPR, I am going to take this course to see what it’s like. I’ll report back in another post on what I found.
I found a really neat website the other day. It’s like a whole childbirth education class online.
I’ve rented an office in Pittsburg at 156 Quitman Street!
I’m in the process of decorating and getting some furniture for it, but I have already started seeing clients there. I plan on having a ribbon cutting ceremony, sometime in April, I think.
I just got home from The Gathering a couple of hours ago.
The Gathering is where Texas licensed/CPM midwives and nurse midwives get together to share information and support for each other. Many conferences do a lot to strengthen your knowledge. The Gathering strengthens your soul.
I had a wonderful time and finally have some faces to go with the names of CNMs that I have heard or seen over the years: Sister Angela (truly a legend in her own time), Mary Barnett, and Dinah Waranch, to name a few. There was much laughter, a few tears, and lots of valuable information shared between all of us.
I can’t wait until next year!
I just found the blog of another one of my favorite midwives. I base my opinion of her on the articles she has written on the web and in Midwifery Today.
Do yourself a favor and check out Gloria Lemay’s blog. Here is one of my favorite posts: Interventions in Birth.
Research published [in 2007] concluded that hospitals’ articulated reasons for closing or placing limits on their related midwifery services are not necessarily what is motivating such moves.
Looking at two cases in which hospital-affiliated midwifery services had good outcomes, the researcher in this report conducted 52 detailed interviews with midwives, nurses, administrators, childbirth educators, policymakers and physicians and reviewed archived data such as e-mail, policy statements and memos. Read the rest of this entry »
Approximately 25% of pregnant women have vaginal or rectal colonization of GBS. (CDC website)
Testing is unreliable as a predictor of GBS status at time of birth. It is well known that a woman may be GBS positive at the time of testing (36-37 weeks) and be negative at the time of birth. Approximately 75% of women who are positive at the time of testing will be positive at the time of birth.
“There are three risk factors that affect decisions about intrapartal antibiotic prophylaxis: Read the rest of this entry »
Today has been a computer day, only interrupted by a wonderful first prenatal with a new client. First I had to wrangle with GoDaddy and my hosting service to get my email to work. Then I decided to upgrade my WordPress. I thought I had lost my blog for a little bit there, but I just needed to re-upload my themes. I decided to take the opportunity to change the design. What do you think?
I know I haven’t posted much of substance lately. I promise you, it’s on my list of things to do really soon…
…that the hospital is the safest place to give birth.
The arrogance of some doctors never ceases to amaze me. This kind of thing angers me so much, that I have a hard time putting it in to words. Fortunately, there are others out there that aren’t speechless with rage, and I refer you to one of the best rebuttals in lieu of my own.
Navelgazing Midwife’s Response (fair warning for those who need it: there is one immodest labor picture at the very top of her blog post)