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If a woman gets pregnant there would be a lot of important decisins that should be decided upon immediately. She needs to go see and choose a doctor.  More than likely they need to choose a hospital.  And there a few other things.  What most women don’t realize they can also choose a natural delivery. That is when mothers do not want drugs to be administered on them during the delivery itself. With more and more people concerned with health this is a gaining popularity.A profession that really helps in this area is called midwifery.

What is really the use of midwifery?It is defined as the practice of assisting women to give birth naturally. Of course there a lot more defintions. But this is the simplest definition.  As a San Diego licensed midwife that is the job which is to help a woman attempt to deliver naturally.There can be a lot of benefits from this.The use of no drugs is, of course, the main benefit. And without using drugs the delivery goes faster.Because drugs administered to the mother can actually slow down the delivery itself. 

These days, women are not only choosing to deliver their babies the natural way but they also choose to deliver their babies at their own homes.They are choosing their homes over hospitals to give birth to their babies.  This seems a lot more different then people are used to.But it has lot of benefits in store for the babies and the mothers.  As a midwives San Diego I have been able to see these benefits firsthand.One benefit that can be gained is the privacy of the place that will be used as the delivery room.Intrusive medical procedures are less needed also because the way of giving birth is the natural way.

There will definitely be objections and sceptics will not stop looking for something to criticize.Some are doubtful about the safety of ths method.  But if it is a low risk pregnancy this shouldn’t be a big factor.But of course it will not be recommended to a mother whose pregnancy is a high-risk one.  In my San Diego midwife practice I always advise my clients to go with the normal delivery in a hospital if it is high risk.So that if anything happens it can be immediately attended to by a doctor.

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Pregnancy, what a wonderful time for a woman.  Well, I guess aside from the sickness.But beyond that, the new baby coming is an exciting expectation.

Usually, for most women, how to have the baby isn’t a big question.  Because most women will go the standard route of a medical procedure involving hospitals, drugs, and doctors.

But for some women, there is an alternative.That alternative is finding a midwife to help you have a baby the natural way.  And it is that alternative I am going to share from my experience as a San Diego midwife.

For people that don’t know, midwives are women who help natural deliveries without drugs.This usually means no doctors.

Often times midwives in San Diego perform these services at homes.  Although, maybe all this is foreign to most people, it is a safe and regulated alternative way to deliver a baby.

The midwives in this service industry are fully regulated.They can be licensed midwives or certified midwives that have a regulatory board that oversees them. 

Sometimes they can be nurse midwives, but that is not a requirement. 

This form of delivery is an option a lot of women choose and includes waterbirth in San Diego. Most of the time this choice is made by women who prefer not to have any drugs during delivery so that they can keep the new baby away from drugs.Also it is going to be for some women who don’t want invasive procedures.

Well when you are making decisions as big as how you are going to deliver, you obviously want them to be the right choices.With most things, you want to pick the right person.

Like I mentioned before, this is a highly regulated industry. With that being the case, finding a good licensed or certified midwife is easy. 

All you have to do is find your state regulatory board that  oversees midwives and do a background check to see if there have been any complaints or issues with your prospective midwife.

With this step, you can find out if it is a quality midwife and someone you can trust.  Obviously once you find that there are no complaints or reports against the midwife, you also want to check references. 

You are going to want to find a midwife whose clients speak highly of them.With something as private and personal as a delivery, going through these steps will help you pick the right midwife for your delivery.

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Labor and delivery; it brings joy but also pain for the woman.Obviously there is joy because of the newborn baby, but any woman will tell you, it was a source of unspeakable pain.

Well it is because of that pain that there are two schools of thought on how pregnancy and delivery should be carried about.  I am going to offer some perspective on one particular school of thought that I have gained first hand experience with by being a homebirth midwife San Diego.

There is the medical model for delivery which is associated with drugs to kill the pain, and sometimes cesarean to complete the delivery.

While there is another model, which though not widely accepted, for those who believe in it and have experience it consider it much safer and natural for the woman.

That model is the midwifery model as it is called.That is in obvious contrast with the usual medical model way of doing things.  Where the medical model relies heavily on medicine, hence “medical”, midwifery relies on the natural.Midwifery philosphy believes that pregnancy, labor, and delivery should happen as naturally as possible because it is a natural process.

This model is performed by a group called midwives. Midwives San Diego are generally woman, who attend the birth, often times at the mother’s home.This midwife would help the woman try to deliver the baby as naturally as possible without the use of drugs.

Contrary to most people’s opinion, when medicine is not used during labor, it allows the labor to proceed much faster without the use of drugs to slow the labor down.

The midwife is a professional with a regulatory board that certifies and licenses the individual. 

Although usually not a nurse or doctor, a midwife can be a nurse as well.

Even though they are not a doctor or nurse, they do carry with them some medical equipment, such as resuscitation devices and suturing equipment.

So in regards to pregnancy and delivery this is what a midwife is and generally what midwifery is about.

Their goals are to let the labor and delivery happen as naturally possible.This reduced the need and use of a c-section.Does not subject you to hospital procedures that are invasive such as episiotomys.  Less medical management like breaking the water or using drugs to slow or speed up the pregnancy.And for the woman the best part of all is that labor and delivery usually happen quicker naturally.

Hopefully this was informative and helped you understand some of the benefits of midwifery and having a midwife there for your pregnancy.  At the very least, hopefully it gives you more options to explore.  Remember this is first hand knowledge from a San Diego midwife.

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