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06 Mar 08

The True Face of Birth: Responses to ACOG (updated!)

A great list of responses to the ACOG pontification!

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05 Mar 08

My Domestic Church: The Business of Being Born - a Review

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27 Feb 08

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City Beat: Legalizing Birth: Ohio criminalizes midwives wanting to help women deliver at home: News: News

"Ohio doesn't have a revised code that includes midwifery. There is no licensure available in Ohio," she says. "There is no autonomy for us."

Ohio law only recognizes nurse midwives, who are registered nurses with a master's degree in midwifery, ac

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"Ohio doesn't have a revised code that includes midwifery. There is no licensure available in Ohio," she says. "There is no autonomy for us."
Ohio law only recognizes nurse midwives, who are registered nurses with a master's degree in midwifery, according to Stephanie Beck Borden, chair of Ohio Families for Safe Birth.
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- But CPMs or direct-entry midwives like Helwig, who care for women giving birth in their homes, lack official approval.
  "Direct-entry midwives are at risk of legal prosecution for practicing medicine," Beck Borden says. "In Ohio there is no protection, no regulatory body for direct-entry midwives. (They can be) prosecuted for practicing advanced-practice nursing without a license or practicing medicine without a license, which is a felony."
- "It's insanity," she says. "I've been serving the community for 10 years, on call night and day, and my life has completely stopped. Now I'm sitting and waiting for the state to decide if they're going to punish me or give me back my stuff and send me on my way."
  Beck Borden recently gave birth to her second child at home.
- "Direct-entry midwifery is recognized in 22 other states," she says.
- Ohio Families for Safe Birth (OFSB) hopes to soon have Ohio included among those states.

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25 Feb 08

Belly Tales » ACOG’s Statement on Homebirths

Many other websites have covered this topic in exhaustive detail, so I’ll refer you to them in just a moment, but first a few comments of my own. As Rixa rightly pointed out on her blogThe True Face of Birth, ACOG’s sudden acceptance of out-of-hospi

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Many other websites have covered this topic in exhaustive detail, so I’ll refer you to them in just a moment, but first a few comments of my own. As Rixa rightly pointed out on her blog The True Face of Birth, ACOG’s sudden acceptance of out-of-hospital birth facilities (i.e. freestanding birth centers) flies directly in the face of their earlier November, 2006 Statement on the subject, where they were adamant that the hospital “is the safest setting for labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period,” and that “ACOG strongly opposes out-of-hospital births.” I wonder what caused the sudden change of heart?
There has got to be so much back-room wheeling and dealing and politics involved in all of this that one can only wonder at the motives. But crucially, why must support of freestanding birth centers be at the expense of homebirth?
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- As Rixa conjectured, maybe all of this is indeed in response to Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein’s documentary The Business of Being Born, which has done a terrific job of raising awareness regarding homebirth. The real question we need to continue to ask ourselves is this: Why is it that America, with all of it’s insistence on hospital birth and safety, still has one of the highest rates of neonatal and maternal mortality among developed countries? That question lies at the heart of The Business of Being Born, and clearly, the American way of doing birth, for all its emphasis on hospitals and safety, has not adequately addressed this.
- The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) support home birth for women with uncomplicated pregnancies. There is no reason why home birth should not be offered to women at low risk of complications and it may confer considerable benefits for them and their families. There is ample evidence showing that labouring at home increases a woman’s likelihood of a birth that is both satisfying and safe, with implications for her health and that of her baby.^1–
- And don’t forget the economics at work here.
- what’s good for the mother is ALSO GOOD FOR THE BABY. The two are not diametrically opposed. When a woman feels safe, supported and relaxed, she’s able to sink into her labor and allow her birth to unfold in the manner that’s best for the baby, without all of the stress hormones and cortisol, without all of the fear….and more often than not, with stunningly good outcomes.
- In any case, you should go read the rest of Rixa’s post on The True Face of Birth ASAP: 10 Responses to ACOG’s statement on homebirth, as well as the other responses cropping up around the blogosphere.

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The True Face of Birth: Responses to ACOG (updated!)

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