Posts by mwherbs

When i lived near Oregon one spiritual midwife I knew, only prayed at births-, she would go to the health department and would report the births using the midwife designation, i would guess that even if the laws in Oregon changed to...

I looked at the wonder pages to narrow down mortality rates of twins GA born Method of delivery , So western region 07-08 no twin births reported past 37 weeks. The greatest number of births were between 34-36 weeks and a very high...

Here is one article on the subject- i have to say that because of the concern of unknow cause of stillbirth that what I have seen is pretty much standard c-section delivery offered/ done at 34 weeks . ...

Except that the countries that we point to having lower mortality all along for the last 100 years have been midwife countries with direct entry/ vocational pathways to being a midwife- the out of country midwives I have met for the most...

So 12 hrs of clinicals in a week sure , students I have worked with could easily get that and if attending births would surpass that in 1-2 months. Didnt the Yale program when starting out have an 18 month midwife certification, for non-...

She does list her source the birth certificate data--- Twins do represent a clear bit of info and should be removed from the Oregon data when being compared because they surely are removed from the hosptial data- the medical policies...

I think that the demographic of home birth says alot . You consider the older white,married college educated multip to be able to advlocate for herself and yet those are the women giving up on trying to fight with the hospital providers....

Mothercat, associates or bachelor's ? I am pretty sure these were associates RNs they have complained and complained about how little time and focus and how scared they were during clinicals...

the primary cause of preterm birth now is induction or c-section . So it is when ever ,yes there are desires to get a baby to 33-34 weeks but not always.... And it would be incorrect to think that midwives in Oregon do not attend...

.6/ 1000 seems very very low. And these are the numbers for 1 year- hard to say if it was a fluke or a true trend. So what is the rate of iatrogenic preterm birth in Oregon? And what is the associated death rate with that? This...