We had our first baby on a mat on the floor of a hospital room with a veteran midwife who was a nurse with a master's degree to boot. Yet the "traditional" hospital staff could not stand the thought of it. Across Idaho, there are dozens of midwives delivering hundreds of babies a year. Some of them have professional training. Some have lay training or apprenticeship experience. For the second year now, they are asking the Legislature to offer a state license for their profession. The midwives give a few reasons for the request: They want to be able to carry some key drugs to births, to submit insurance claims, to make childbirth in Idaho safer and give prospective parents more choices/Nathaniel Hoffman, PaleoMedia.org. More here
DFO: I want to introduce you to a solid new Web site that covers Idaho politics and the Legislature -- Nathaniel Hoffman's PaleoMedia.org here. Nathaniel wrote the midwifery column for Boise Weekly. You can check out other recent work by him here and here.
Question: What do you think of midwifery?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
hospital room with a veteran midwife who was a nurse with a master's degree to boot. Yet the "traditional" hospital staff could not stand the thought of it. Across Idaho, there are dozens of midwives delivering hundreds of babies a year. Some of them have professional training. Some have lay training or apprenticeship experience. For the second year now, they are asking the Legislature to offer a state license for their profession. The midwives give a few reasons for the request: They want to be able to carry some key drugs to births, to submit insurance claims, to make childbirth in Idaho safer and give prospective parents more choices/Nathaniel Hoffman, PaleoMedia.org. More here
