tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346749784229772317.post5966465948130509253..comments2022-03-09T03:58:19.101-05:00Comments on Safer Midwifery for Michigan: Checks and BalancesMWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125751490256911705noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346749784229772317.post-47000925625676875332012-10-23T21:12:52.188-04:002012-10-23T21:12:52.188-04:00Interesting chain of posts. Really birth is about ...Interesting chain of posts. Really birth is about the family giving birth - not about the birth attendant. My issue with SOME midwives is that they make it all about the midwife and the relationship you have with her. Actually it's really about you doing your thing - whatever it is - and us standing by like a spotter. If you're going to fall off the high bar, we catch you. Or maybe pull you down before you get all the way up there!<br />So I appreciate the thought that we are really quite superfluous to the process most of the time. That's the way it should be, and that's empowered birth.Molly Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03966759068037301357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346749784229772317.post-49441915843797781742012-10-23T14:28:40.174-04:002012-10-23T14:28:40.174-04:00With my first baby, my OB went on a six week holid...With my first baby, my OB went on a six week holiday overseas around the time of my due date. Since her back-up was mainly a gyn cancer doctor, I decided to find a new one at 38 weeks. And I wasn't even in a panic since I knew the hospital provided OB back-up. As an older mother whose friends had already had their babies, I guess I knew that all I needed was an individual with the right diploma. I hadn't met the OB who delivered my first, and he did a great job in my opinion when he delivered my son at 11:56 pm. <br />karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14942575379261463930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346749784229772317.post-57975720143803782012-10-23T13:39:41.562-04:002012-10-23T13:39:41.562-04:00THIS ---> "Appreciating and assessing risk...THIS ---> "Appreciating and assessing risk factors in a client seeking an out of hospital birth is critically important to protecting the safety of that mother and baby."<br /><br /><br />THIS ---> "Disregarding the importance of assessments, avoiding them altogether, or even failing to risk out appropriately based on the results of such assessments is putting mothers and babies in great danger."<br /><br />And THIS ---> "Risks are being taken then, that do not need to be taken. How is this possible? There are no checks and balances, no guidelines, no scope of practice for midwives practicing out of hospital birth in MI. They can take any risks they want, avoid any assessments they choose, and call anything a 'variation of normal'. No questions asked."<br /><br />You've hit the nail on the head with this one. For a profession (the direct-entry arm of midwifery) that is so proud to be "self-regulating" - they do a piss-poor job of addressing the issues of risk-assessment that you've so clearly laid out here. <br /><br />I love this post. Thanks for saying what needs to be said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com