Updated ~ Jan 22, 2021 Easy-to-share Tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/y2w57axc {y2w 57 axc} Jan 14, 2021 Medical Board of California Interested Parties Meeting on the Standard of Care for California Licensed Midwives (SCCLM) by Faith Gibson, LM Information for attendees of the Interested Parties meeting on the Standard of Care for California LMs (SCCLM) adopted by… Continue reading MBC ~ Interested Parties Meeting on the Mfry Standard of Care January 14, 2021
Category: Political Controversies
Repost ~ My July 29th, 2005 letter to MdBd & Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Mfry Standards & document dump to make easier to find related materials
This re-post of my original testimony at the July 2005 MBC regulatory the letter includes additional supporting documents that are critically important to this issue. The combination of this key testimony and background documents provides a convenient “parking place” for one big file so a Ca LMs (including me!) can easily find politically useful “quotables”, excerpts from… Continue reading Repost ~ My July 29th, 2005 letter to MdBd & Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Mfry Standards & document dump to make easier to find related materials
Unlawful actions by Sutter Health that discriminate against OOH: Copy of document to maternity patients notifying them that OB care will be refused if they are planning OOH birth
Easy to share link –> http://tinyurl.com/y3yeju59 An illegal action by California’s Sutter Health {Oct 2018} defined by NAFTA as an “disguised restriction of services“ An unfair & illegal business practice by California state law B&P Code 17200 – 17209 Below is: Transcript of an official Obstetrical Consent Form dated 10/08/2018 Politician Action Plan for California… Continue reading Unlawful actions by Sutter Health that discriminate against OOH: Copy of document to maternity patients notifying them that OB care will be refused if they are planning OOH birth
SB 457 — ACOG’s newest attempt to eliminate PHB and severely restrict LM scope of practice, threaten license and livelihood of Ca LMs
Why CALM, CCM & C-FAM (you too we hope) is opposed to California senate bill 457 The California Nurse-Midwives Association and the California Association of Licensed Midwives (CALM) stand together in opposition to this bill. CALM is opposed because: This bill, which is being promoted by anti-midwife physician groups, drastically reduces the scope of practice for… Continue reading SB 457 — ACOG’s newest attempt to eliminate PHB and severely restrict LM scope of practice, threaten license and livelihood of Ca LMs
Part 4 Summary ~ Fears vs Facts for normal childbirth in healthy women
Identifying the real dangers of normal childbirth in healthy women Links to previous posts for: Part One, Part Two, Part Three When it comes to identifying the actual dangers associated with normal childbirth in a healthy childbearing population, the American public and a majority of the medical profession frequently see dangers where there are none,… Continue reading Part 4 Summary ~ Fears vs Facts for normal childbirth in healthy women
ACOG’s Committee Opinion #669 ~ Planned & Professionally-attended Home Birth
Here is a link to ACOG Comm-Opin#669_PHB_Aug2016 — the obstetrical profession’s most recent, and in my opinion, most ‘honest’ statement about professionally-attended and planned OOH childbirth. ACOG’s new opinion lists both pros and cons, which is a first. Many of the studies that the authors used were seriously flawed — for example data from Pang 2002 study and Wax… Continue reading ACOG’s Committee Opinion #669 ~ Planned & Professionally-attended Home Birth
CCM: Clarifying Definition of a Midwife-attended “Planned Home Birth”
California College of Midwives Standards & Guidelines ~ Section Four ~ October 2004 A Clarifying & Statistically-relevant Definition of a Midwife-attended “Planned Home Birth” for practical, political, policy purposes A professionally-attended and planned home birth with a licensed midwife is intentional –– that is, a thoughtful and informed decision mutually made by the parents and… Continue reading CCM: Clarifying Definition of a Midwife-attended “Planned Home Birth”
VBAC Concluding Statement (part 5) A Better Way ~ Opportunities to improve the situations
A Better Way ~ opportunities to improve the maternity care & the VBAC situation in California: What society needs is a rational system for providing ‘mother-baby-father-friendly’ maternity care, one that functions logically for childbearing families by meeting their practical as well as biological needs. The goal is nothing less than affordable, accessible, women-centered, mother-baby friendly… Continue reading VBAC Concluding Statement (part 5) A Better Way ~ Opportunities to improve the situations
VBAC Position Statement: Part 4 ~ The Post-Cesarean Problem for California Mothers & Midwives
Work-n-Progress ~ last edit Aug 18, 2015 The Magnitude of the Post-Cesarean Problem in California and its affect on childbearing women and their midwives Over 600,000 babies are born in California every year. With a 33% Cesarean section rate, around 200,000 women are added to the post-Cesarean/potential VBAC pool each year. Not all of them… Continue reading VBAC Position Statement: Part 4 ~ The Post-Cesarean Problem for California Mothers & Midwives
VBAC Positon Statement: Part 3 ~ Cost of high CS rate & low VBAC rate, hospital VBAC bans
Part 3: Ethical, Economic, and Personal Costs of a high-Cesarean/low-VBAC rate As fully described in Part 2, the multiple serious complications caused by placenta previa and/or and placenta accreta-precreta are not routine childbirth problems that are prevented by new obstetrical technologies or easily solved by modern obstetrical techniques. Instead they are extremely serious, often life-threatening… Continue reading VBAC Positon Statement: Part 3 ~ Cost of high CS rate & low VBAC rate, hospital VBAC bans