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I am graduating with my BSN next month (yay!) and I was thinking of assisting a CPM to gain experience with homebirths. Someone mentioned to me that it might not be a good idea because if there's a negative outcome I would be held responsible since I...

As a fellow new grad, a current doula and an aspiring midwife, I believe that Frontier will allow you to use doula experience in lieu of the one year of L&D experience. You might want to look into that. Good luck!

You're at an interesting impasse and I wish you the best of luck in your decision and then in your studies. I just wanted to point out that AFAIK a PA (even with an OB/GYN residency), cannot actually catch babies. If that aspect of obstetrics interes...

I was considering one specific CPM that I'd been in touch with before this issue came to light. I will continue looking...

Thanks! I'll look out for such opportunities...

Thank you! Frontier is my first choice school. I've been in touch with their admissions. I will apply there as soon as I can...

I am in New Jersey. Thanks!

Thanks for your response cayenne06! I really appreciate your input. When choosing my route to midwifery, I specifically chose to become a CNM for some of those reasons. However, my heart lies in homebirth and I would love to see some of that up close...

I an entering the final semester of my BSN and wanted to apply to Frontier for midwifery. I was wondering if it was possible to apply before graduating or I need to wait until after taking my NCLEX. I have lots of other birth related experience and I...

Yes. I got an answer from Admissions at FNU that they require transcripts from nursing school in their application process so there's a minimum wait of a few weeks after completing the BSN required in order to apply

Congratulations on being accepted to a midwifery program and good luck in your studies!

Thanks for the reply. I have read their admission criteria. Other birth related experience can be counted instead. I have been a birth doula and assistant midwife for some years now. I would use that experience in lieu of nursing experience.

Thank you novice! Really appreciate it. I wish you luck on your journey and hope you find a solution to the predicament you find yourself in. I was told that NYU also graduates their midwives with a MS in Midwifery. Perhaps their graduates can help ...

Thank you, Red Krytonite, for that info. It was helpful.

Thank you for your clarifications! I also looked into that birth center and read a lot from the other midwife you provided a link for. It's really scary! But, the FSBC I worked at was NOTHING like that! It's run by CNM's who have worked for many year...

I totally agree not to post on a board before you have lurked long enough to get a feeling for the 'culture' and to get to know how some of the more active posters 'speak'.

Thanks, queenanneslace, for your explanation and quotes. I have also seen many babies born with mec in the fluid and no issues, hence my question. I have another question - - the midwife in the case stated that the fluid had been clear when she first...

I am confused. The article states: Fisher said it's possible to recover a child from meconium aspiration, but that it requires the right transition, the right technical support.” He added that there's no tell tale” signs of meconium aspiration, a...

Since the job description of the midwife assistant does not require being a nurse, nurse experience is certainly not necessary. The midwife would train the assistant in what she would need to do regardless if the assistant could do things that were w...

Yes! After doula'ing at some bad hospital births, I have called a homebirth midwife friend of mine and offered to volunteer doula at a birth where she felt her client may be able to use a doula but could not afford one, just so that I can see a norma...

I worked as a midwife's assistant at a FSBC. I am not a nurse (yet) but got to do some clinical work (taking vitals on mom and picking up FHT, pp vitals on mom and baby, charting, etc.). The job description is very different than the doula'ing I do ...

I assume that it is NOT a coincidence that in a place where doctors do minimal interventions and listen to laboring patients, there is also a low c-sec rate

Like MidwifeMinded, I am also a doula and aspiring midwife. I have found what MidwifeMinded said to be absolutely true! I love that being on-call and being in the birth arena has provided me with so much information and experience. I learn from every...

Thank you, queenanneslace, for your honesty. I've been lurking on these boards for a while now and have actually seen the shift in your perspective. I seriously considered going the CM route (I have a prior bachelors degree and I live in NY), but aft...

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