But we've got lots of evidence now to show that that isn't necessarily the safest place. A midwife -led unit or a birth center for a first time mum and even home, which is quite shocking to us because we're like, well, no, home is a really dangerous choice.
The turnovers were just so quick. It was midwife after midwife after midwife . I mean, we're writing the script adaptation at the moment, and even one of the people from the company was like, this is just too many midwives.
Asexual. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And a midwife looks at you or a doctor looks at you and decides on your external genitalia whether you're a boy or girl.
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My mum had trained to be a nurse at 18. Then she was a midwife . Then she did a PGCE.
exact quote really beautiful was it was an quite an remarkable speech um that misogyny is the Midwife of History um which I thought was a really interesting way to sort of sum it up um what are some of your Reflections on what's been
Village at works for prenatal care and um she came in the middle of the night uh the Midwife was there trying to help and we tried what we could but because we have no operating room today we can't do C-section we couldn't do anything to
She had just given birth. And the midwife held up the baby to the mother and said "What religion is he?" And the mother said, "Isn't he a little bit too young to know?" So also, reading through the book, I noticed a lot of things actually that made me think about what we do here at Google.
And then we started figuring out how to automatically add the modifiers that you have to use to do the same coding when it's a midwife seeing the patient instead of a doctor. And little by little by little-- what we now call lean development, but at the time, we called just fix one more thing development.
Paul on his mother's side, there's not so much music there. She was a midwife . But on Paul's father's side, there was a lot of music.
And I do think that down market contributed to that. I'll be midwife . Cool.
And there's good things to that, too. I like to see a nonchalant midwife , the same way I would want to see a nonchalant air stewardess during turbulence. You don't want to see them panicking.
So think about how am I going-- you only produce oxytocin in an environment where you feel safe, uninterrupted, undisturbed. like-- that relationship-based care where your midwife knows you.
had just come back from maternity leave when I was first signed on. And she said that her midwife had still had this catastrophizing idea that swearing was going to make childbirth more painful. The thing that makes childbirth most painful, all other things being equal, depending on the size and shape of your baby,
We couldn't even get our own claims paid because there was no code for a nutritionist doing a visit instead of a midwife , even though the exact right person to do it was a midwife . Or nutritionist, et cetera.
And I do think that down market contributed to that. I think I probably will be a midwife to give birth for good ideas or good things that come from other people.
And what I call and some women call hands-off birth, which is when the midwife stays in the background and nothing really happens to the woman apart from the midwife 's presence unless it's needed. Those sorts of births are even rarer and almost impossible to get.
and choosing a really good support, the best you can afford, really, a good doula, maybe an independent midwife if you can afford that, or just spend some-- if you can't afford to have an independent midwife at your birth, go to antenatal class with her or just do everything you can to learn and take back some control.
how they could do in these special enclaves, you know. The mother of Socrates was called Sophrona and she was a midwife .
what I've done at work to what I've got at home. At times I joke and say that I'm a musical midwife , because I'm
And even if your loving parents have enough money to buy you jeans with holes in them-- I don't know why that is so important, Well, the midwife told my father that there was a little girl, but he said, don't despair, another one is coming.
You now you're giving it to a midwifery training program, and you get to know who you're giving it to.
Why? What's happening to you? What's your consultancy? What's your midwife doing? Oh, you're doing this.
So think about how am I going-- you only produce oxytocin in an environment where you feel safe, uninterrupted, undisturbed. And just adding up to what you said-- you do get continuity care with the midwife at least in the Southwest London when you choose a home birth.
I mean, I had a midwife named Mama Susie, and she was like 100 when I was four.
And they might be-- you might have a car, three cars behind her someone is a midwife running out of their car and running to her and saving her.
So then suddenly being cut open and all of this stuff, and then a baby being slammed on my chest. So when I fell pregnant, I did say to the midwife , my mom suffered really bad postnatal depression.
But actually really true natural birth is really rare. And what I call and some women call hands-off birth, which is when the midwife stays in the background and nothing really happens to the woman apart from the midwife 's presence unless it's needed.
So think about how am I going-- you only produce oxytocin in an environment where you feel safe, uninterrupted, undisturbed. Well, in a hospital is really hard to have the same midwife that day, whichever day is going to be you give birth--
Dick Garwin, who was at IBM, was the midwife between Cooley and Tukey, and he describes this thing.
He goes through a set of circumstances that fundamentally changes his relationship to this thing that he's helped midwife into the world,
Get the hospital information, and the lab, and the pharmacy, and the anesthesiologists, and the neonatologists all in one picture. We couldn't even get our own claims paid because there was no code for a nutritionist doing a visit instead of a midwife , even though the exact right person to do it was a midwife .
And one of the very earliest texts I look at, Jacob Rueff's medical and midwifery manual, advised that women who were, quote,
And Jane Sharp, who was the first woman and Englishwoman to ever write a midwifery text and publish it in England writes of Contharides, or Spanish fly.
That's amazing. As you were sharing that story, I just got the image of you almost being a midwife helping people rebirth into a wholer
She enrolled in an online university to be a teacher, even though she had always wanted to be a midwife .
Those sorts of births are even rarer and almost impossible to get. And in fact, most people who do get them have to go outside the system to get them and employ an independent midwife . Or even some women will free birth so that they can have that hands-off experience.
and then knowing your options, and knowing that you have rights, and knowing that you have bodily autonomy, and all of these things, and choosing a really good support, the best you can afford, really, a good doula, maybe an independent midwife if you can afford that, or just spend some-- if you can't afford to have an independent midwife at your birth, go to antenatal class with her or just do everything
Let's use that information so that any provider, anywhere-- any nurse, any midwife , any technician that can take a mobile phone and bring it into the field--
Although, obviously, the person who uses it is a nurse or a midwife or a gynecologist.
has no moving parts, that is portable, that's safe and intuitive to use so even a mother or midwife could use it, and something that would allow for close mother to