Posts by mwherbs

Thanks for pointing that list out Pillowy, thse are for OOH inductions.....this just shows how common induction is, and how there is a disconnect even in supposedly highly educated providers . The question keeps being asked what do...

Everyone keeps saying that the UK midwives or other out of country midwives have superior educationa and they represent college degrees.. And yet for years upon years a foreign midwife moves here and at best she can sit for the RN exam/...

The more i think about it , the more it comes to no. Are the CNMs proposing that they are part of this regulation? No Are the Naturopaths? No Are the MDs? No. The regulation is on midwives who are not nurses. as a mother , because of...

So what about the women who leave medical care to seek out a home birth alternative? Hasnt that already been done? Where the physician or CNM has already given mom/family the risks and she has sought out another way. I think that the...

She got ahold of the data before it was checked over for errors and before all the information was gathered. She has a definate stated bias on who should be called a midwife- CMs and CNMs.... The intended out of hospital births where...

The numbers havent been that "bad" before in Oregon. Before the report year it was parity or less than hospital births and the LMs. The midwives have for a very long time asked to have each type of midwife divided out on the birth...

We have had paternalism for a very long time. As long as the majority feels like that is acceptable there will be no real tort reform and no true informed consent honored. I do know midwives who act the same way doctors do in that...

The Ontario study on vbac had over 3000 - the stats on rupture for in hospital is 1 in 200 so there should have been aprox 15.

I agree with you Mothercat in informed concent... And even. Looked at and adopted that vbac, workbook, you recommended.

I think good peer review associations, along with jointly processing broad data and putting together protocol lists... Are ways to improve outcomes- many of the "rules" were developed from what midwives knew at the time they tried to...