Dear Virginia Bottomley: If mothers can choose where they have their babies, why are two midwives being disciplined for helping with a waterbirth? The Health Secretary should intervene, says a childbirth expertSHEILA KITSINGER
Men who work as midwives are calledmidwives(or male midwives, if it is necessary to identify them further) or accoucheurs; the term midhusband (based on a misunderstanding of the etymology of midwife) is occasionally encountered, mostly as a joke. In previous centuries, they were called man-...
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Being a pro-choice doula was controversial within many birth activist circles. There were many conservative Christian midwives and doulas who didn’t think doulas should support people during abortions. In this moment, as those same conservative Christians have succeeded in removing the right to abort...
We had our babies at home and in hospitals. We have had c-sections. We have used doulas, midwives and had epidurals. We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 children. We have no children by choice. We have no children because we can’t. We’re not ready to have children. ...
To humanize the birth process in Tanzania, it is essential to further understand how decisions are made about accessing delivery services from both the perspectives of women, men and midwives, particularly as there have been limited studies on how men and women differ or converge in their ...
3” Some examples include CTC providers, community health workers, village midwives, traditional birth attendants, formal and informal private practitioners, community based drug distributors and lay counselors that deliver wide ranging services from different contexts.3 It is not inconceivable that these ...
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"Now I've got the perfect job. I've got four shifts booked for December, so I can go and work as a midwife, but I've also got my foot in the managerial and strategic camp as well. I couldn't imagine losing the practical part of the job - or doing the other side of it ...
Let me clarify that Certified Nurse Midwives are allowed to attend homebirths in North Carolina IF they have a medical doctor willing to act as backup (sometimes a tough thing to find), but Certified Professional Midwives—who are also highly trained and usually very experienced—are not allowed...