"The Business of Being Born" ???!!!??? - Page 2

[LMG462]

Originally Posted by homemademomma

blah. i watched it the other night and i was NOT impressed. what is up with that midwife not wearing gloves?

I thought the same as you. But when I watched it for the second time it looked like she she was trying to get her gloves but the baby crowned too fast. Were there other times she was gloveless?

[Malga]

blah. i watched it the other night and i was NOT impressed. what is up with that midwife not wearing gloves? IMO that makes HB midwives look reallllllly bad. personally i really liked that midwife's style, and i practice a lot like her, but i would have liked to see some actual monitoring of the baby during labor, and had them talk about how HB midwives safeguard mom and baby. and the transfer at the end? the fact that the baby had undiagnosed IUGR was. . . .idk. i know that mom was seeing an OB at the beginning of her pg, and i am not trying to insinuate that the midwife was negligent, but the whole thing (no gloves, not showing any monitoring, the IUGR) to me just made HB midwives look unprofessional. i would also have liked to see a hospy midwife practicing normal birth. that would have been cool.

it could have been SO much better.

My thoughts exactly.

[homemademomma]

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i just posted a new thread about this bc i forgot about this one.