\nHospital maternity units are run to strict protocols to ensure quality of care for every woman and baby on the unit.\u00a0 Additionally, maternity units are generally very busy places \u2013 often, midwives are stretched to their limits.\u00a0 As a result, midwives need to be \u2018in charge\u2019 of their unit.\u00a0 The dynamic between midwives and mothers on a maternity unit is usually very much that of professionals and patients, although midwives do their very best to empower women to make their own choices about their births.<\/p>\n
If you choose to give birth on a hospital maternity unit, you will be assigned to a midwife when you arrive. They generally won\u2019t be able to stay with you throughout your labour, but will check on you regularly.\u00a0 When it comes to the second stage of labour when your baby is born, you will have two midwives with you, or a midwife and a doctor.<\/p>\n
Home Birth<\/strong> If you choose to give birth at home, two midwives will attend you. Usually, the first midwife will arrive at your home with the equipment, and then send for the second midwife when the second stage of labour is approaching.<\/p>\n It is important that we point out that the legal requirements of midwives are the same whether you give birth at a hospital or at home \u2013 as the patient, your care is centred around you, and wherever you give birth you are legally responsible to make decisions about your care.\u00a0 The only real difference between hospital and home births is how the birth experiences feel to the birthing family.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When youre planning for your babys birth, youll have lots to think about.슠 One of the main thoughts that will be going through your mind will be the midwives that will attend your birth after all, along with your birth partner(s), they will be your main companions throughout your labour. If you decide to plan … Continue reading “Hospital vs Home Birth: The Role of Midwives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63,221,226,282,283],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maternity","tag-birthing","tag-home-birth","tag-hospital-birth","tag-midwifery","tag-midwives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA home birth is usually a much more holistic affair than hospital birth.\u00a0 People who opt for home birth usually do so because they want a more natural experience, or because they want to feel more in charge of their birth.\u00a0 At a home birth, the midwife \u2013 mother dynamic is quite different.\u00a0\u00a0 Midwives acknowledge that they are guests in the mother\u2019s home, and as such, the mother is very much in charge of her own birth.\u00a0 The midwives are there to safeguard the mother and facilitate the safe delivery of the baby.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lua-vazia-nWbJlwIrmT8-unsplash.jpg\")
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