Midwifery

The term midwife means to me is ‘with women’. It’s about being a guardian of normality whilst being able to recognise deviations from the norm. It means that I am and will be an expectant parent’s voice during their vulnerable stages of labour; I will be there to empower and educate her during her pregnancy and post-partum. Midwives are health care professionals with the academic ability to provide a high level standard of care for women and their families through the antenatal, post natal and…

In the world a child is born every four seconds, a midwife is essential at several of these labor and deliveries due to their positive influence on the mother in labor, the baby being delivered and the postpartum stage women face after delivery. Midwifery is a very imperative job because they deliver, prepare and care for babies in many different environments. A child being born is one of the happiest moments in a parent 's life. With a midwife by the mother 's side, the bonding experience…

The Purpose and Value of Labor Support What is a Doula? A doula is a person who shows support emotionally and physically to birthing women and their families, compassion when she mothers, and service through her mission to serve and care for others when it's their time to go thru childbirth. When a doula shows support to a birthing women many women seek a doula because they are scared to birth since it's their first time and fear is the main concern, "will I be able to have my baby ", or…

Midwifery has fascinated me from an early age. The process of how something so minuscule can grow into something so beautiful as well as knowing that as a midwife I have played a part to bring that most beautiful thing into the world excites me. Having the chance to provide that support through pregnancy, to the birth and then postnatal stages of a special time in a person 's life and guiding them through it is what draws me to become a midwife. In my spare time I have researched midwifery…

midwife is to explain step by step all the important things that may occur during pregnancy and warn the pregnant woman on the things that she should do and should not do in order to avoid harmful consequences for her or her child. 2. INTRODUCTION “Midwifery is a health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum…

national womens community midwives. During my week at northshore it was incredibly busy and understaffed. I also remember thinking at times, where has the midwifery gone? We were so busy rushing around trying to provide safe and quality care to the women, but that fact is I feel we were too busy, with too larger case loads to provide true midwifery care. I cared for many day 1-2 sections, women with large blood losses requiring blood transfusions, a secondary PP and there was a woman with…

they want as long as all of their medical school prerequisites get done. While midwives typically got to school to get their Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) as an undergraduate degree. Then, the future midwives go to graduate school for their Midwifery degree. While most programs require a BSN, some take registered nurses who only have their associate degree. Unlike midwives, obstetricians go to medical school and become either a medical doctor or a Doctor of Osteopathy. The absence of…

Postpartum hemorrhage is the cause of 27.1 percent of birth complications and maternal deaths worldwide. The midwives who care for patients in these type of obstetrical emergencies must be able to act quickly and make appropriate decisions in order to manage a postpartum hemorrhage. Most midwives do work alongside a trained obstetrician, however, early recognition of a maternal hemorrhage can make the difference of life or death. The researchers sought to prove that training midwives through…

The first filmed I watched was, “Business of Being Born”. Right from the beginning I was taken in by the film. Midwives have always been a topic I was interested in so this whole film was right up my alley. I was really surprised at the number of caesarian sections in the United States. It’s rather unfortunately that time is more important often then giving the mother the type of birth she wants. I feel now a days midwives are not very common or if you use a midwife the family is considered an…

There are a handful of options when it comes to birthing choices that women have, hospitals, birthing centers and at home. When reading, some information regarding each choice it stated that around 94.3% of women in New England birth in hospitals. The perks of hospital birth are the three day recover time they give, you can use this time to bond with your baby and sleep. Other comforts would be knowing there are pain relivers and the feeling of being safe in case something was to happen.…