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Midwifery Care
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:28 AM
 The final open meeting of the Midwifery Scope of Practice committee was held yesterday, June 3, 2013. The whole time I have been attending or watching the livestream recordings, there has been a nagging thought that was tugging on my brain. The Director of Health Services wrote THISblog post that really helped me clarify
the thought that had been rolling around in my head, and I couldn’t quite pin it
down until I read his post: Excerpt: “In the draft rules, there are a handful of tests that women need to take if
she wants to have Licensed Midwifery services.
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:55 AM
(Submitted as a Public Comment) Open Letter to the Midwifery Scope or Practice Committee:
It feels like healthcare in the state of Arizona is going the way of the public school system. Professionals who are out of touch, some of them not working in the field anymore, or as is said quite often, "couldn't cut it in the classroom," are making rules and regulations for the folks who are in the trenches, getting their "hands dirty" every day. It is bad enough that teachers are overwhelmed with rules that have them teaching to tests instead of using their God-given talents to teach and inspire a younger generation. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 8:26 AM
A "Family-Centered" cesarean? Woman-centered? What? Did you just read that correctly? |
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Stephanie Stanley and Jessica Franks, ICAN Phoenix Co-Leaders: Posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:02 PM
 I open today's post with the reminder that April is Cesarean Awareness Month.
The World Health Organization and evidence-based practice only supports a
cesarean rate of 15% or less. While a cesarean birth can be life saving and
necessary, and we are so grateful for the technology when our students need
this intervention, we encourage you to know the difference between a variation
and complication. Is Mom okay? Is Baby okay? If yes to both questions, asking
for time can spare both Mom and Baby from an
"unnecesarean". |
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Cassandra Okamoto: Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 10:55 AM
Today is a continuation of my birth story from earlier this
week. You can read Part 1 here.
 | Thresh's Birth Story Out of the tub & resting in bed |
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There is a lot that
happened right after Thresh made his entrance into the outside world: getting
into bed, skin to skin between Thresh and his daddy, cutting the cord,
delivering the placenta, eating Greek yogurt with almonds, diapering Thresh,
being made a smoothie with a piece of my placenta, trying to breastfeed, my
midwives and doula cleaning up and later on being stitched up; but instead of
detailing the events I want to reflect more on how I felt that night and beyond
about my son’s birth. |
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Cassandra Okamoto: Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2013 6:48 AM
Bruss and I would like to welcome Cassandra to the Sweet Pea Births Family. She will be a regular contributor to the blog and you will start seeing her around the internet on ourother social mediaplatforms. I am looking forward to sharing her areas of expertise with our students and readers. Bienvenidos, Cassandra! ~KRB
 Hi, I am Cassandra Okamoto and I am a new contributing
writer here at Sweet Pea Births! I thought I would tell you all a little bit
about myself & then share my birth story, which just happened to take place
almost exactly one year ago. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:46 AM
There was another Midwifery Scope of Practice Committee meeting last night at the Arizona Department of Health Services. The consumers came out en force and made it abundantly clear that the requests to have a midwife attend a homebirth of a VBAC, a breech and twin births are Human Rights and Woman's Choice issues. We know that there are risks involved. It is our right to do our own research, to explore all our options and to make the choice with the risk decisions that we can live with. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012 5:02 AM
Another group is calling for a week of recognition – this
time it’s the American College of Nurse-Midwives. October 7-13, 2012 is National Midwifery Week "...created by ACNM to
celebrate and recognize our members.”
Read more about their organization HERE.
 I am happy to participate in their campaign to bring the
awareness of midwifery care to a larger audience. We had an epiphany when we experienced
midwifery care, and we are delighted to see many of our students making the choice
to have midwifery care for their pregnancies and births. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:52 PM
 We have now had 28 students complete our Bradley Method®
classes and birth their babies through seven class series – pretty awesome to
know that 28 youngsters are blessed with parents who took the time to give them
healthy pregnancies and Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby births.
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman: Posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 5:32 AM
Here are two more herbal therapies we used in
preparation for our homebirth. As I
commented in my first postabout the things we did differently as a result of our choice to have a homebirth, I have no idea why these are not more widely used
in pregnancy. The only idea that has occured
to me since then is that since these are not pharmaceuticals, there is no money to be made
from promoting them.
Herbs have been used as “medicine” for countless years. As such, I must put on my Bradley® instructor
hat here and say that these worked for our family; each family must do their
own research and decide if any of these herbal therapies are suitable for them. |
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