EBB 23 - Home Birth Midwives

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Kids & Family, Medicine, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, we talk about the types of different home birth midwives in the U.S. This podcast will prep you to attend the free public webinar all about the evidence on home birth. To register for the webinar (only available through May 8, 2018), visit https://ebbirth.com/homebirthwebinar

To learn more about the EBB Professional Membership, visit https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/ and visit EBB PDF library here:

http://evidencebasedbirthacademy.com/dashboard/pdf-library/

Here are the references we used to create today's podcast:

American College of Nurse Midwives (2017). Comparison of Certified Nurse-Midwives, Certified Midwives, Certified Professional Midwives. Accessed online April 4, 2018. Available at: http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=59&cat=12&button=Search&rec=254
The Big Push for Midwives (2018). CPMs Legal Status by State. Accessed online April 4, 2018. Available at: http://pushformidwives.nationbuilder.com/cpms_legal_status_by_state
MacDorman, M. F. and Declercq, E. (2016). "Trends and Characteristics of United States Out-of-Hospital Births 2004-2014: New Information on Risk Status and Access to Care." Birth 43(2): 116-124. Click here.
Midwives Alliance of North America (2016). About Midwives: Types of Midwives. Accessed online April 4, 2018. Available at: https://mana.org/about-midwives/types-of-midwife.
Marzalik, P. R., Feltham, K. J., Jefferson, K., et al. (2018). "Midwifery education in the U.S. - Certified Nurse-Midwife, Certified Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife." Midwifery 60: 9-12. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471175

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone in today's podcast. We're going to talk about the different types of midwives who attend home births in the United States
0:10.8	Welcome to the evidence-based birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my
0:16.2	PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get
0:22.0	evidence-based information into the hands of
0:24.7	families and professionals across the world. As a reminder this information is not
0:29.5	medical advice. See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone, so last week we talked about the rise of home birth in the United States
0:42.2	and how home birth has now reached 1% of all
0:45.0	births in the United States and out of hospital birth has reached 1.5%.
0:50.3	Today we're going to talk about the different types of midwives who attend home births in the United States.
0:55.0	If you're interested in the topic of home birth, we are having a free to the public webinar this week and next week.
1:02.0	You can register for the free webinar at eB birth.com
1:06.7	slash home birth webinar last week and this week I'm going to be giving you some
1:11.6	background information so that you can
1:13.3	be prepped for the webinar. Today we're going to focus on the types of training of midwives
1:18.6	who attend home births in the United States, but when we get to the actual webinar we're going to talk about the safety statistics
1:25.0	on home birth in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
1:29.7	So I'll talk a little bit more about the training of Canadian midwives and
1:33.6	midwives in the United Kingdom in the webinar. Today we're going to focus on
1:37.3	the types of midwives who attend home births in the US. Most attendance,
1:41.6	78% of attendance at planned home births in the US are midwives.
1:47.0	Physicians attend only 0.9% of planned home births, totaling about 260 Planned Home Births with physicians.
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