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is it practical to become a midwife? my friend is dying to become one but she heard that hospitals wont let midwifes in and malpractice is too high to make any money. what are the pros and cons of becoming a midwife? are hospitals hiring or is it better to have your own practice? also are there any good programs in the NY area that frum woman go to? realistically how long will it take to get it? is a ob/neonatal nurse a good substitute if its not practical? any ideas/advice will really help!
Google professional midwifery organizations and you will find people who can tell you which hospitals are welcoming to women who want midwifery healthcare. There are 2 types of midwives, certified nurse midwives and professional midwives (Shifra/Puah); their training is different.
If I am not mistaken, many midwifery programs for nurses are about 2 years. You may also need some experience as an OB/GYN nurse before this. She may become interested in specializing in another field while she is in training – this often happens, as these days there are many specialty fields in nursing. A very good specialty is epidemiology. A nurse-epidemiologist is one of the few fields where you get excellent jobs with no shiftwork involved. Good luck to your friend, whichever field she chooses. Nursing is a very rewarding career.
taking a break -“but she heard that hospitals wont let midwifes in and malpractice is too high to make any money.”
“There are 2 types of midwives, certified nurse midwives and professional midwives (Shifra/Puah); their training is different.”
The second type is usually excluded from hospitals, except as a doula. You won’t have to pay malpractice if you work for a hospital. Coney Island Hosp. has a lot of CNM’s working in OB/Gyn.
I highly recommend becomning a frequent reader and visitor to the website THe Skeptical OB before committing or making any decisions. Dr. Amy Tuteur has utilized the web to educate people about birth, and homebirth and senseless needless deaths caused by Homebirth.
I was once an aspiring Midwife.
But fortunately I woke up. Midwives have somehow turned necessity into virtue as if “Catching a baby” makes you a birth warrior. Even a taxi driver can tell you there is nothing to catching a baby, out of necessity, in order to prevent a baby from hitting the floor.
Natural birth advocates are dangerous people.
Become educated and see that MANA (Midwives of North America) refuses to release their own homebirth death rates. That should be a red flag.
Here is just one sample of a recent article freshly posted today:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Third North Carolina homebirth death so far this year
The homebirth deaths just keep on coming.
There have been 3 deaths (and one brain damaged baby) in the state of North Carolina so far this year.
The first death, and the brain damaged baby, occurred at the hands of the infamous Amy Medwin, CPM (Homebirth advocates ignore baby, rally for midwife).
You might think that this would be an opportunity for soul searching in the North Carolina homebirth community, but you’d be wrong. The North Carolina Friends of Midwives and the Charlotte chapter of the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) view this as an opportunity to promote the interests of CPMs. No one knows whether the baby will live or die, but homebirth advocates have already “moved on” to the really important issue, the fate of the midwife.
I am sorry but its hard for me to have a complete respect for midwives after having read Ina May Gaskin’s “Guide to Natural CHildbirth”. What a complete crock of garbage. She doesn’t present the reader with enlightening or refreshing information to empower you to face birth with courage. She scares the hell out of you painting a favorable light only on the farm midwives and their birth clinic and statisitics, which charges about $4,500 per birth by the way.
She also discourages women from gestational diabetes screening as according to her “The best evidence we have says that the outcomes for women who received treatment for diabetes do not fare much better then women who recieve no treatment”. WHat a crock of garbage. Everyone knows that high sugars lead to a big baby, and put a women at high risk for placental abpruption and CPD and that diabetes that goes untreated and unrecognized damages organs and the eyes of the diabetic. She is encouraging pregnant women not to take insulin!
NYU and Bellevue have a wonderful Midwifery Department. Check it out.
ARWSF – “I was once an aspiring Midwife. But fortunately I woke up.”
“There are 2 types of midwives, certified nurse midwives and professional midwives (Shifra/Puah); their training is different.”
Your getting the two mixed up. CNM’s are medical professionals -a lot work in hospitals. They don’t necessarily push the natural birth agenda!
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