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What is a Midwife?

What is a Midwife?. By: Irene Parra English 1A Professor Ramos 27 February 2018. what is a Midwife?.

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What is a Midwife?

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  1. What is a Midwife? By: Irene Parra English 1A Professor Ramos 27 February 2018

  2. what is a Midwife? • A midwife is a trained health professional who helps healthy women during labor, delivery, and after the birth of their babies. Midwives may deliver babies at birthing centers or at home, but most can also deliver babies at a hospital.(WebMD) • A midwife helps provide information to a mother so she can make her decision on her birth. • Midwives know the importance of the birth of a baby. • Midwives know how important it is to make the mother feel safe.

  3. What Does a Midwife do? • A midwife can: • Provide family planning and preconception care • Do prenatal exams and order tests • Watch your physical and psychological well-being • Help you make your birth plans • Advise you about diet, exercise, meds, and staying healthy • Educate and counsel you about pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care • Provide you with emotional and practical support during labor • Admit and discharge you from the hospital • Deliver your baby • Make referrals to doctors when needed (Occupational Outlook Handbook)

  4. A Midwife’s Education and Income • A bachelor’s degree is required and a master’s degree is recommended • A doctoral degree is also recommended if you want to advance in this career.(onetonline.org) • Here are the annually and hourly wages for midwives.. Hourly Yearly California United States California United States High High median median Low Low

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  6. Why are Midwives important? • Midwives are important because they know that birth matters. • “ Midwives speak about the importance of birth for babies, mothers and birth partners.”(MANA.org) • Midwives provide a safe and satisfying experience for mothers. • Safety is the main priority for caring for a mother. • https://youtu.be/8dVYNLXlq-Y

  7. What does it take to be a Midwife? • To be a midwife you have to have personality, compassion,responsibility, and understanding. • Midwives make a woman feel like they are their best friend and make them feel at home. • To be a midwife you need to know the basics of child development and also all the skills and techniques required for midwifery. • According to the research article, “The rhetoric of informed choice: perspectives from midwives on intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring” they said midwives are required to monitor fetal heart rates.“The midwives were a purposive sample as experience in the use of intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring was required.”

  8. What are the benefits to having midwife care? • A benefit to having midwife care is they provide all the information you need to help make a decision on what birth journey you want to take. • “One of the main reasons women decide to use a midwife is to experience childbirth as naturally as possible. • An additional benefit of having a midwife is their various payment options. • Midwives often offer payment plans and sliding fees, and are willing to accept most insurance plans including Medicaid.” (Americanpregnancy.org) • Midwives will listen to the mothers and what they want. In the Article, “Learning By Listening to Women: A supervision of midwives’ initiative” by Philipa Stalberg, she talks about how midwives listen for the mothers best interest. “By listening to experiences and acknowledging their feelings,we aim to restore their belief in our service’s commitment to understanding what made a difference and how we will use their feedback to improve for the future.” (Stalberg) • Stalberg shows us how midwives listen to mothers for their best interest and also benefits them.

  9. What a midwife is trained to do • Midwives are trained to do different types of births like the natural childbirth, home births, water births, vaginal births, the Lamaze method, the Bradley method, or C- Sections. • Midwives are trained to be the support system during pregnancy. In the article, “Water Birth: Using Water as a Comfort Measure in Labor” Emma J. Brooks says “The water birth supports the physiological processes of labor while the support system (e.g, midwife) provides psychological support, and the two together can take the water birth experience one step beyond by deepening the maternal and neonatal connection of mind, body, and spirit.” (Brooks) • Brooks says there is much more to the water birth and the midwives are there to support them through their journey • overall midwives are trained to make sure the mother and her baby are healthy and safe.

  10. Works cited Career one stop, the website shows the wages for midwives in the United States and in California. I used their data to create my own chart.https://www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/stateandlocal/wages.aspx?soccode=291161&location=California&dataview=table&hourly=False&national=False WebMD, webmd gives you a definition of what a midwife is. I used the definition to describe what a midwife is. https://www.webmd.com/baby/what-is-a-midwife-twins Onetonline, this website gives you a list of credentials midwives should have. I used this list to sate the credentials required.https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/29-9099.01 Midwives Alliance of North America, this source gives information about midwives and about their website. I used information to describe midwives and also used a video to further the idea of midwives, https://mana.org Hindly, Carol ; Thompson, Ann M. , “The rhetoric of informed choice: perspectives from midwives on intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring” this article tells use how midwives monitor fetal heart rates. Health Expectations. Dec2005, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p306-314. 9p. http://web.a.ebscohost.com.chaffey.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=185aa8fd-c607-451a-8654-5781587c3023%40sessionmgr4009&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=18698740&db=hch Stalberg, Philippa (pip.stalberg@nhs.net) “Learning By Listening to Women: A supervision of midwives’ initiative” this article tells us how midwives listen to mothers. http://web.a.ebscohost.com.chaffey.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=185aa8fd-c607-451a-8654-5781587c3023%40sessionmgr4009&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=123972417&db=hch British Journal of Midwifery. Jul2017, Vol. 25 Issue 7, p465-469. 5p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Graph. Brooks, Emma J,”Water Birth: Using Water as a Comfort Measure in Labor”this article is about how water births can be spiritual And comforting.International Journal of Childbirth Education. Jan2018, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p30-34. 5p. http://web.a.ebscohost.com.chaffey.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=185aa8fd-c607-451a-8654-5781587c3023%40sessionmgr4009

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