BreckH

BreckH

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  1. Feeding Protocols

    BreckH replied to HawkeyeRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi, Just came back from a meeting at work NICU in San Diego where we are discussing going to cue feedings please if you can send the feeding protocol you are talking about... [email protected] Thank...

  2. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I worked in a hospital in Grants Pass, Oregon Three Rivers, and they were CIMS certified Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. To become certified they had to have a low section rate, low...

  3. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    And I've gone one step further, from my husbands suggestion of "if you are so upset about what is happening to laboring women in hospitals today why not write a book." and I did I wrote "Hey! Who's...

  4. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yes i contact my congressmen and state representatives regularly along with about 100 other of us. And have you noticed that the choir is the heart of the church and the praises and messages they...

  5. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm a nurse too you know.. 18 years and have seen many changes . I watched things drastically change especially in L&D and have seen results change too and as a result have changed my focus from...

  6. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    And back in her grandmothers day maybe that was true but not anymore. Statistics show home and clinic births have a much better outcome, IF the woman has prenatal care, has a good diet, has a good...

  7. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would love to know in which states and cities all of you are from, this makes a lot of differences in the type of birth experiences people have in hospitals and at home.. I'm from San Diego...

  8. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is exactly true and accurate, we are a nation, and just about the only one, who have been taught to fear childbirth and to be forced through peer pressure to submit to the wishes of providers and...

  9. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is current: Pregnancy is big business in America Published by Roxanne February 26th, 2007 Care 66% of all hospital revenue comes from hospital births (and the C-section rate is 33%), according to...

  10. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Smilingblueeyes spelled it out pretty clear, clinics and small hospitals are closing their doors to birthing and directing the births to larger hospitals which with their complications and...

  11. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Google pregnant in america and listen to the trailer that is offered on the home page. This is the documentary that will be presented later this year. In this trailer is the statistics that I quoted...

  12. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm so sorry for the mentioning of the website. I didn't know. sorry. No the Stats are from the US and current.

  13. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi I was a direct entry midwife in Canada for 6 years and under the supervision of an MD I caught over 250 babies at home, had my two children at home at that time and just last January delivered my...

  14. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There is a new documentary http://www.pregnantinamerica.com check it out these are the stats they are quoting and the film isn't out yet. As for self pay? when a person is a no pay or illegal and has...

  15. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The biggest problem started when pregnant women went from hiring famly practice providers (who can't perform surgery) to OB/GYN's who are surgeons who can't keep their hands off the surgical...

  16. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    66% of the hospitals revenue is birthing. Hospitals turn a blind eye to interventions and unnecessary cesareans because it brings in the

  17. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You know it is funny, in the three different hospitals I've worked in and the 18 years I've been a nurse there is hardly anything said about infants that are transported into the NICU because of...

  18. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't doubt that you are a good nurse. And as a postpartum RN you are very much needed after a vigorous and aggressive birth in L&D it is the postpartum nurses who do come to the rescue and...

  19. Home birth vs. hospital

    BreckH replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi, I am an RN (now working in NICU, have worked L&D in the past), a DEM (direct entry midwife) in Canada and caught over 250 homebirth babies with a provider in attendance, doula (had a practice...