Birthroot Midwifery

05/05/2020

In all cultures, the midwife’s place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique. - Sheila Kitzinger

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2020 ♥️

03/20/2020

Birthroot Midwifery is currently accepting late-to-care transfers for low-risk women considering home birth for the remainder of March, April, and May. Call or email today to schedule a telephone or video consultation.

As pregnant women across the country wrestle with anxieties about hospital deliveries during the pandemic, midwifery practices are reporting a significant uptick in requests for help with home births.

03/20/2020

“Would you want to go to a hospital right now? It’s pretty terrifying.”

01/11/2020

A new study that includes data from 11 Pacific Northwest hospitals, shows that women with low-risk pregnancies who were cared for by a midwife, left the hospital with fewer complications.

12/28/2019

Kensington Palace also released heartwarming photos of her visit to a London hospital’s maternity unit.

12/26/2019

The gospels provide scant detail about Jesus' birth

11/29/2019

Josh Scheutzow Help Support Gideon Scheutzow Our sweet little nephew Gideon was born 10 days ago with severe heart abnormalities and some genetic irregulariti

08/24/2019

Hospitals are shutting down across rural America, creating a shortage of care.

07/26/2019

A new meta-analysis of 500,000 births was published yesterday comparing perinatal outcomes of births at home vs in hospital...

Summary: "The risk of perinatal or neonatal mortality was not different when birth was intended at home or in hospital."

The risk of perinatal or neonatal mortality was not different when birth was intended at home or in hospital.

07/15/2019

A new report in the British Medical Journal examines the need for universal GBS testing during late pregnancy...

Key messages:
-Early onset group B streptococcus (GBS) disease is an important health problem and efforts should continue to better understand and prevent it.
-Selective maternal culture is not an accurate test to predict early onset GBS disease in neonates, and we don’t know why some colonised mothers have a neonate with early onset GBS and others don’t.
-The current approach to screening would lead to 99.8% of screen positive women and their babies receiving unnecessary intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis.
-Lack of high quality evidence on clinical outcomes makes it impossible to quantify whether universal GBS screening would have any benefit and assess whether large scale intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis is safe.
-A universal antenatal culture screening programme cannot currently be recommended.

A review published in the BMJ shows that universal antenatal screening for group B streptococcus may cause more harm than good.

06/17/2019

Hiking is by far one of the best outdoor family activities. It’s a great way to stay active during pregnancy too!

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