Posts by carrieb26

My first was long, second was superfast like yours, third was long.  I did a non-scientific poll of a group of friends - it was about half and half in terms of third birth being same/shorter vs longer than second.   I...

I haven't had any personal experience with her - I know she has a meet up group, or rather now a facebook group get together monthly - perhasp if you can connect with some of the families there you can get a sense of her?  

I'm so glad you were able to connect with someone.

As far as I know, no CNMs serve Urbana. I have some friends in the area who have home birthed. There's a homebirth support group that meets monthly, but you'll have a hard time getting anyone to give out names unless they've gotten to...

There is a birth group active in the area. Southern Illinois birth network. I'm from northern Il so i don't really know all the resources there. I've heard theres an ap group, LLL, ICAN down tht way. Connecting with any of thse could be...

Leah, I'm in Illinois and will be looking for insurance that would hopefully cover any future homebirth. Do you think that bcbs ppo is a good insurance in general? If you don't mind sharing, which me did you use that was in network?

I'm not aware of cnms that attended births in Dubuque. Depending on which state in te tristate you land in, there might be other options. Have you looked here? http://www.wisconsinguildofmidwives.org/find.html I don't know if any of...

The only legal mw I know in Peoria is brande ruskusky. I don't know if she takes on birth assistants. Have you tried to connect with any of the Illinois midwifery groups? Might start with illinoismidwifery.org.

I know this is an old thread, but in case anyone is still around and looking to get connected to the midwife licensure movement in Illinois:   Check out https://www.facebook.com/groups/351756698197588/ - this is the facebook...

If you're on facebook, try connecting with the Illinois Friends of Midwives group.  It's private, so you'll have to ask to join, but you may be able to connect with some like-minded families in your area to see what resources are...