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 »