Information 

Faith Gibson, LM, CPM

Midwifery Services  

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 ♥ Bio / Faith Gibson
♥ The Distinction Between
Midwifery &  Medicine Care

Print Questions for Interviewing a Midwife

Info for Faith's Clients ♥   

 
info@collegeofmidwives.org

♥ Informative Booklet   ~   Disclosure and Informed Consent for PHB Clients
 ♥Physiological Management of Normal Labor & Birth Defined
 ♥ New Client Antepartum  Consent Form  
♥ Intrapartum Consent Form  parents read & sign at 37 wks
♥ VBAC Client info > PHB
♥ Client Info for GBS Testing      Non-antibiotic Tx for GBS during labor  

A_COG brochure with both risk-based and culture-based information on GBS (1998)

Safety of Planned Home Birth

Report on BMJ study on PHB published in ObGynNews 2005

< --- Documents on the 
safety of  
 Planned Home Birth
& the Standard of Practice 
for Community-based Midwifery in California

California College
  of Midwives' 
Standards of Care   

British Secretary of Health 
Promotes Planned Home Birth with Midwives      
 as Best Choice for Healthy Women  ~ May 2006

Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives:
a large prospective study in North America  (June 18, 2005)
 British Medical Journal  
2005;330:1416 (18 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1416
Research paper by 
Kenneth C Johnson, senior epidemiologist 
Betty-Anne Daviss, project manager   
Editor's Note: Many of the LMs in California, myself included, were participants in this study and contributed statistics from our own home birth practices.

                                         

  March 13, 2006 Press Release:
      Paper on Planned Home Birth in British Medical Journal 
                     was the most popular study published in 2005  

  

 

Info for VBAC clients of
Faith Gibson, LM #41

(1) Taylored information as
 required by Section 1379.19
for Faith Gibson  
(2) Access required reading  
incl. text of Sec 1379.19
 

 (3) Informed Decision Making, Informed Consent or Refusal  -- print out consent form on page #5   
                                                 
        Options: VBAC or Repeat C-Section -- print out page # 9 -- consent form and bring to appt.
        

Characteristics of Active, Physiological Management

Science-based Principles of Maternity Care  

 Continuity of care, 
Patience with nature, 
Social and emotional support, 
Mother-controlled environment (place)  
Provision for appropriate psychological privacy, 
Mother-directed activities, positions & postures for labor & birth  
Full-time presence of the primary caregiver during active labor
Recognition of the non-erotic but none the less sexual nature of spontaneous labor 
Upright and mobile mother during active labor 
Non-pharmaceutical pain management such as showers & deep water tubs 
Judicious use of drugs and anesthesia when needed (hospitalized mothers)
Absence of arbitrary time limits as long some progress, mother & baby OK  
Vertical postures, pelvic mobility and the right use of gravity for pushing
Birth position by maternal choice unless other factors require otherwise
Mother-Directed Pushing -- NO prolonged breath-holding (Valsalva maneuver)
Physiological clamping/cutting of umbilical cord-- after circulation has stopped (3-5 mins)  
Immediate possession and control of newborn by mother and father
On-going & unified care and support of the mother-baby for postpartum

One does not have to be a midwife to appropriately 
use "physiological" (i.e. midwifery) management.

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