It seems like the fault (according to the courts) was the fault of the hospital, not the midwife. Am I correct?

The case in complaint #2 (Martinez) resulted in a Plaintiff's verict for $55 Million on Monday. Hopkins received the baby that Evelyn had "cared" for after laboring for 20 hours and took the fall for her blatant malpractice. Google it if you want details.

Bullshit. Every time something goes wrong with a homebirth you hear about it. Things go wrong in hospitals (often because of problems with care) and it almost NEVER makes the news.

I wish people would stop sounding off and making it sound like a homebirth is courting disaster. A well trained, experienced midwife knows exactly when to transfer and what to do in case of the unexpected. She is LESS likely to have problems than an OB for a multitude of reasons. You need to understand that many problems are caused by interventions in the hospital.

In 30 years my midwife has had exactly two emergency transfers to the hospital and both of them were appropriate and resulted in the optimum care for the mother and baby (and no problems, in case that wasn't clear). However, I know that she also transfers patients to the hospital or to another provider routinely, because they are no longer low risk or, if during labor, for failure to progress -- a non emergency issue.

A homebirth is not appropriate for everyone but Ipersonally am much more afraid of the hospital and unnecessary interventions than I am of being at home. By using a midwife I have taken steps to minimize the inherent risks of childbirth.

The problem is that a LOT of these midwives do not have insurance nor do they tell you about prior problems (that are not being made public). So the only recourse is to sue the treating physician (after the damage has been done by the midwife) and the hospital.

Those that want homebirths with non-physicians are taking on an assumption of risk. Although a lot of pregnancies can deliver at home, some cannot. And each pregnancy is different so you don't know where you will fall.


Sadly these home births that go bad end up on the hospitals record and not the midwife. So you have the midwife supporters quaoting statistics that actually reflect midwife deaths when they are thying to say hospital deaths.

Just make sure your CNM has malpractice insurance in the event you encounter the situations noted above that led to dead or brain damaged babies

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the complaint - are home vbacs illegal in Maryland?

No, they are not illegal. Not at all -- and a CNM is legally allowed to attend VBAC, too.

Looking at the complaint - are home vbacs illegal in Maryland?

she has lost her nursing and midwife licenses


http://www.mbon.org/disc/public_orders/rn_lpn/muhl...-R060032-SS.Order-20111006.pdf

Anonymous wrote:What's going on here? Anyone have info on this beyond what's available on this site: http://saveourmidwifeevelyn.weebly.com/

The board of nursing is doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing, the medical board would do the same; you are guilty until proven innocent in these professions, until then there is no income and the legal battle ensues - these are our laws for patient safety.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.mbon.org/disc/public_orders/rn_lpn/muhlhan_evelyn-R060032-SS.Order-20111006.pdf

The parents described in Complaint #2 are suing the hospital they were transferred to for the brain damaged infant they delivered thanks to Evelyn's "care" during a failed home birth

Riduculous. These parents made a bad decision and now want someone else to pay for their stupidity. I hope they are awarded one penny

Wow. the link above is really disturbing.

http://www.mbon.org/disc/public_orders/rn_lpn/muhlhan_evelyn-R060032-SS.Order-20111006.pdf

The parents described in Complaint #2 are suing the hospital they were transferred to for the brain damaged infant they delivered thanks to Evelyn's "care" during a failed home birth

Anonymous wrote:does anyone know what happened with this?

I saw that she is now doing doula work (on doulamatch.net).

does anyone know what happened with this?

Holy fuck. It is the natural frustration of someone who is tired of dealing with someone else's fuckuos when all you want to do is deliver happy screaming babies and put them skin to skin to nurse.

We make comments in trauma too---because not wearing your seatbelts means that you die and your family member does too---impaled on the cane in the car---after a week when your family says that it was an act of some or other god.

Homebirthing is dangerous enough with cowboy practitioners who make it worse.