Katherine Rushfirth CNM and the President of MA ACNM talks about coping when your birth does not got as planned

by | May 7, 2018 | Massachusetts Midwives in the news

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Katherine Rushfirth CNM and the President of MA ACNM talks about coping when your birth does not got as planned

There are three major stages of labor: early labor, when a woman’s cervix starts to thin out and dilate and she has spaced-out contractions; active labor, when contractions are longer, stronger, and closer together; and the transition stage, which is the final stage leading up to when the baby is born, according to the American Pregnancy Association.

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MA ACNM participates in the “March for Moms”, calling for better maternity care in the US

by | May 7, 2018 | Massachusetts Midwives in the news

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MA ACNM participates in the “March for Moms”, calling for better maternity care in the US

Mothers, midwives, and other women gathered Sunday afternoon in Copley Square to raise awareness of the number of women dying in childbirth, especially women of color.

About 17 women per 100,000 live births die from pregnancy-related causes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That rate exceeds the average collective rate of other industrialized countries, which report about 12 per 100,000, according to the World Health Organization. Black women are four times more likely to die from pregnancy than white women, according to another CDC report.

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Julie Paul CNM and the South Shore Hospital’s Early Labor Lounge featured in Politico

by | May 2, 2018 | Massachusetts Midwives in the news

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November, 2017
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The case against hospital beds

When the health care industry talks about hospitals, it tends to use the language of facility planners—one in which “patients” and “beds” are equivalent. This is the legacy of a very different era in medicine. Modern hospitals are historically rooted in the sanatoria and asylums of the mid-19th century, originally conceived to isolate patients with conditions such as tuberculosis and lunacy from the community, not to protect their rights. The move from open wards to closed rooms was perhaps the first major reform in hospital design—motivated by a need for isolation as our understanding of communicable diseases and infection control became more sophisticated.

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Katherine Rushfirth CNM, the President of the MA ACNM, talks about the importance of hydration in pregnancy

by | May 2, 2018 | Massachusetts Midwives in the news

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Dehydration Can Cause Contractions During Pregnancy, as ‘Bachelorette’ Star Ali Fedotowsky Just Found Out

Pregnancy is filled with weird aches, pains, and twinges, and some are a little scarier than others. Former Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky recently had a particularly confusing experience with pregnancy pain—and it was so bad that she thought she was going into pre-term labor.

Fedotowsky, who is pregnant with her second child, wrote on her blog that she started experiencing “sharp pains in my uterus” when she was 26 weeks pregnant and initially wrote it off as gas pain. But the pain got worse and eventually started coming in waves, just like contractions.

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Natalia Richey CNM, midwife at Mass General Hopsital, reflects on Women’s HIstory Month and women in health care

by | May 2, 2018 | Massachusetts Midwives in the news

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Q&A with Natalia Richey, CNM, MSN

Natalia Richey, CNM, MSN is a nurse-midwife on the Midwifery Service in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mass General. She cares for patients at the Mass General main campus in Boston and the Chelsea Health Care Center.

What do you like most about your job?

I love the excitement of working on the labor floor and caring for women of different socioeconomic classes all in the same setting. I also love being able to provide many of our patients with quality prenatal care, primary care and social services that they may otherwise not have access to.

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MaryLou Carr CNM, Director of the Cambridge Birth Center, talks about empowering midwives could help women

by | May 2, 2018 | Massachusetts Midwives in the news

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MaryLou Carr CNM, Director of the Cambridge Birth Center, talks about empowering midwives could help women

Statistics about giving birth in the U.S. are not promising. Several other wealthy countries have lower rates of both maternal and infant mortality than the U.S. and maternal complications from birth have doubled in the past 20 years.

But a new study, from the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, says that integrating midwifes into the health care system might help.

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