Midwife charged after at-home birth ends in death of baby

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Thank goodness! I hope that these lay “midwives” continue to get prosecuted when babies die needlessly.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of idiot hires Gwyneth Paltrow to oversee her birth and the fragile care of her newborn as its brought into this world?

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Anonymous wrote:Breech is high risk, and she ignored the signs of distress for too long. This midwife should be prosecuted.

The mother should too TBH

ITA! The mother is every bit as responsible as the midwife and absolutely should be prosecuted. I frankly don't see any distinction between the midwife's culpability and the mother's.

The mother isn't a medical professional. She hired one, or someone who she thought was a medical professional. Her culpability is certainly not the same as the "midwife's".

She had to know her baby was breech. Did she verify the credentials of the woman whose hands she put her and her child’s life into before deciding on a home breech birth? Almost no OBGYNs will even attempt a breech vaginal yet she felt confident in doing it at home. Nuts. Absolutely negligence.

If the courts can prove that she and the father were aware the baby was breach, they should all face charges.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously this woman is horrid. But who the hell doesn't do any kind of background check on someone?!?

The same people who prefer to give birth on their living room floor rather than the hospital with actual doctors and a NICU?

The reality is that medical emergencies can happen even if you have a licensed midwife. Babies should be delivered by a proper medical team with access to emergency medical services for both mom and baby.

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Anonymous wrote:Another who had an uneventful birth followed by a massive hemorrhage a couple of hours later. I would definitely be dead in a home birth—I needed 5 bags of blood plus packing to stop the bleeding.

I know someone else this happened to (it was her 5th kid—all uneventful natural births with no medication), so it really is unpredictable and not that insanely rare.

PS I nursed all my kids until 2, so the hospital birth certainly didn’t interfere with breastfeeding.

I know someone who had this happen as well. Had 2 homebirths and was all over Facebook advocating home birth over hospitals. On her third homebirth she had a massive hemorrhage and had to be rushed to the hospital, barely made it in time. The fourth baby was born in a hospital. All is great at home, until it isn't.

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I hope things like this will spur hospitals to change the way they operate. I wanted a midwife in a hospital setting (I wanted the Inova birthing Inn). Insurance denied a midwife and instead forced me into a 42 hour induction (and I was unable to walk because the hospital doesn't do wireless monitoring). It's like there's no middle ground between completely medicalized and having a baby at home without insurance.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who pays $4k for an unlicensed midwife has more money than brains.

If you don’t have insurance maybe 4K for a midwife is a better option than a hospital. I’m amazed at how much hospital births cost. Even with insurance.

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For the record, this woman claiming the professional title of “midwife” is not a matter of her being licensed or unlicensed or midwives in or out of the hospital being the safer care provider...there are no articles coming out attesting to her training. At this point, she could call herself an unlicensed ob/gyn or lawyer for that matter. She isn’t a midwife as far as what is recognized as a professional in this day and age.

Midwives are board certified and typically a minimum of masters of science level education or higher in this country.

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Anonymous wrote:For the record, this woman claiming the professional title of “midwife” is not a matter of her being licensed or unlicensed or midwives in or out of the hospital being the safer care provider...there are no articles coming out attesting to her training. At this point, she could call herself an unlicensed ob/gyn or lawyer for that matter. She isn’t a midwife as far as what is recognized as a professional in this day and age.

Midwives are board certified and typically a minimum of masters of science level education or higher in this country.

Clearly this charged Nebraska woman was not anything, but to your latter point, some are, some are not. Certified Nurse Midwives and Certified Professional Midwives are different and licensing requirements vary widely by state.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope things like this will spur hospitals to change the way they operate. I wanted a midwife in a hospital setting (I wanted the Inova birthing Inn). Insurance denied a midwife and instead forced me into a 42 hour induction (and I was unable to walk because the hospital doesn't do wireless monitoring). It's like there's no middle ground between completely medicalized and having a baby at home without insurance.

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If the midwife didn’t misrepresent herself, the parents are equally at fault.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's post some articles on how many women and babies have died because they went to a hospital instead of staying home. I guarantee the number far exceeds the number mentioned in this article. Home births are always safer. Fact. Of course there are a few outliers for whom a hospital birth is necessary, but they're truly outliers. Most home births are safe and most are much safer than being in a germy money making hospital with dozens of hands in the pot, none knowing what the other is doing. Women, especially black women, die in hospitals every day. The United States has the WORST infant mortality rate of ANY developed nation, and we also have the highest rate of hospital births.

Also, it says she wasn't licensed IN THAT STATE, not that she had no training and wasn't licensed at all anywhere.

As the vast majority of births take place in a hospital setting your argument is skewed statiscally from the start.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope things like this will spur hospitals to change the way they operate. I wanted a midwife in a hospital setting (I wanted the Inova birthing Inn). Insurance denied a midwife and instead forced me into a 42 hour induction (and I was unable to walk because the hospital doesn't do wireless monitoring). It's like there's no middle ground between completely medicalized and having a baby at home without insurance.

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I delivered both my kids with the Loudoun Community Midwives at the Birthing Inn. Insurance fully paid as if I had used a doctor. Your denial came from your insurance, not the hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope things like this will spur hospitals to change the way they operate. I wanted a midwife in a hospital setting (I wanted the Inova birthing Inn). Insurance denied a midwife and instead forced me into a 42 hour induction (and I was unable to walk because the hospital doesn't do wireless monitoring). It's like there's no middle ground between completely medicalized and having a baby at home without insurance.

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I delivered both my kids with the Loudoun Community Midwives at the Birthing Inn. Insurance fully paid as if I had used a doctor. Your denial came from your insurance, not the hospital.

^^^and I also had a wireless monitor.

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I have had a homebirth, with a CNM (certified nurse midwife). She would not have attempted a breech birth, or taken a mom with a history of bleeding, or twins. She had, in her kit, pitocin (as a CNM she is able to do that) and oxygen.

I never would have gone with some unlicensed midwife. I am a big supporter of safe home births.