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(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID underwrite the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe. The students get their practical experience at the Municipal Hospital which is connected.
Students going through skills training, in the labor room and hospital. Patience Adri who gave birth to a boy is being prepped for a c-section because of a previous c-section. Tetty Perdite, antheseologist comforts her in the hall way. Dr. Tsikata does the section, he's done about 40 a month, has been there for 6 months.
The midwives keep track of their patients and make the decision with the doctor whether a woman far in labor should have a c-section.
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID underwrite the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe. The students get their practical experience at the Municipal Hospital which is connected.
Midwifery students in the labor room observing and participating in the birth process. At the district hospital, Anani Emefa,rt, preceptor is going over the steps of examining a pregnant woman, Comfort Borbor, with student Mavis Abua Anyomi (reading from the book in the beginning and wearing a hat)
On 8/30/14, The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health hosted Black Women Do Breastfeed in celebration of the 2nd annual Black Breastfeeding Week.
Every summer The Midwife Center has a picnic and potluck for clients to connect with each other and reconnect with staff.
Charlie Rae Young is a Home Birth Midwife in Tampa FL.
All photos part of the Barefoot Birth archive and shared with permission.
Local call number: c002678
Title:African American midwife holding twins
Date: 19--?
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 5 x 3 in.
Series Title: State Board of Health
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/44540
All you really need, if things go well, is the documentation, the cord clamps, some absorbent pads and disposal bags.
Charlie Rae Young is a Home Birth Midwife in Tampa FL.
All photos part of the Barefoot Birth archive and shared with permission.
Last April, the 2013 class of the School of Midwifery in Makeni, Sierra Leone received midwife kits at their graduation ceremony. In 2011, Direct Relief and MRC committed to working together to ensure that all graduates from the School of Midwifery Makeni could begin their placements with the essential supplies and equipment that they needed and also to re-supply the materials as they are consumed.To date, Direct Relief has supplied 135 Midwife Kits that are placed throughout the country and plans to support the 130 midwife students in training that will graduate in 2014 and 2015.
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID underwrite the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe. The students get their practical experience at the Municipal Hospital which is connected.
Midwifery students in the labor room observing and participating in the birth process. At the district hospital, Anani Emefa,rt, preceptor is going over the steps of examining a pregnant woman, Comfort Borbor, with student Mavis Abua Anyomi (reading from the book in the beginning and wearing a hat)
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). Birthing Center at the King Fahed IBN Abdul-Azezz Women and Children Hospital in Gusau, Nigeria. The women are mainly cared for by midwives, but the midwives are trained to stop problems and consult doctors assigned to the hospital. While there, one woman had a very difficult birth, she was carrying twins, one was breeched. The midwife delivered that children, but then the contractions couldn't get the other one down so they did a C-section on her,
The other young woman in the room was in great pain and was "crazy" with it.
**EDITED TO ADD: SPOILER ALERT ;) REVEAL NOW POSTED HERE
I almost completely forgot to do this... but then a sweet little owl swooped down and helped jog my memory ;)
Soooo.... here goes.
8 of the following 9 facts about me are true. 1 is a big fat lie. If you've got nothing better to do, read on and see if you can guess which one?
Then tune back in on Thursday for the big reveal :)
#1. My middle names are June, Maureen, Catherine.
#2. I am a qualified ballet and modern dance teacher.
#3. I like my coffee bitter with a dash of soya. I like my tea slightly sweetened and with a drop of dairy milk.
#4. I love languages. English is my mother tongue and I am fluent in Spanish. I also dabble, with varying degrees of success, in Catalan, Irish and French. I have a degree in German and long ago I was pretty good at it, but I forgot it all when I fell in love with a Spaniard and moved to Spain. I have been a professional Spanish>English translator for the past 16 years.
#5. I have no thyroid.
#6. My Dad named me after Vanessa Redgrave, on a whim, when he saw her name in the newspaper five hours after I was born. Before that, I was Marlena.
#7. I am good friends with all my exes, except one (well, there aren’t that many!).
#8. I love to borrow my Dad’s sports car and take it for a fast drive every once in a while.
#9. And, lastly, I simply cannot omit the customary birth-related factoids. My three births went like this: My eldest, Liam, was born via c-section (with epidural) because he was huge and breached and just would not budge. With my middle and youngest boys, Malachy and Lorcan, I was fortunate enough to experience smooth, natural, drug-free births (labouring at home and arriving at the hospital just in time for delivery). When I had Malachy, my midwife said she had never seen anyone smile their way through childbirth, till she saw me. So many people had told me that a VBAC was unlikely and I was just so desperate to have a birth that I could feel, so the whole thing felt like the biggest gift in the world and, although those intense contractions bloody hurt, I could feel them and that just made me deliriously happy :)
Now... you know the drill. One of these things is not like the others. Which one is my fib?
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P.S. Now that I've got your attention...
Is there any chance you could help me with my TRAVEL PLANS too?.... PLEASE?!!**
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P.P.S. Ignore the tag if you've already played along. If I haven't tagged you and you're reading this, consider yourself tagged (I haven't forgotten you... I've just lost track!). Either way, run along now... make your list! Or not! No pressure ;)
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(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID supports the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe, Ghana. The students get their practical experience at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital which is connected to the midwifery school. Student practice first on rubber dolls that "react" to certain actions by the students.
They attend lectures and their instructors do reenactments of women in labor.
A portion of their class work is E-training.
Midwifery students in the E-training lab, Simon Dzorgbesi is the instructor
Midwife Marie Manga Dikoma uses a Pinard horn to listen to the heartbeat of Cecile Iatu's unborn baby at The United Methodist Church's Irambo Health Center in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
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Original caption: Teaching a midwife class, Maude shows how to examine a baby for abnormalities. She conducts some 84 classes, helps coach about 12 new midwives each year.
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W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
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(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). Birthing Center at the King Fahed IBN Abdul-Azezz Women and Children Hospital in Gusau, Nigeria. The women are mainly cared for by midwives, but the midwives are trained to stop problems and consult doctors assigned to the hospital. Midwife, Jamila Sani Shariff who only qualified a few months ago. She is 25 years old.
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Original caption: At 5:30 A.M. a few seconds after the delivery, Maude Callen held the healthy child as he filled his lungs and began to cry.
W. Eugene Smith/Life Pictures/Shutterstock
W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
archive.org/details/Life-1951-12-03-Vol-31-No-23/page/134...
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID supports the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe, Ghana. The students get their practical experience at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital which is connected to the midwifery school. They attend lectures and their instructors do reenactments of women in labor.
The students are waiting in the hospital waiting room to be matched up with a working nurse.
“Being a midwife has always been my vocation. I was born with a passion for this profession. As a young girl, all I wanted as birthday presents were medical kits. You know, those boxes with red crosses on them? My mother made me small nurse uniforms, and with my plastic stethoscopes I would examine the dolls of my friends.
"This profession allows me to help women who are suffering. And they are many here in Senegal. Believe me, women of my age who live with their ten children in one single room – not an uncommon predicament – are not happy. Apart from that, these women are usually in bad health. Their bodies are simply exhausted from being pregnant all the time. If they are lucky enough not to die giving birth, that is.
"The big problems here are ignorance and poverty. Many women have no idea how to prevent pregnancy. And if they do, they can’t get their hands on contraception.
"I myself was lucky enough not to end up like that, as I come from an educated, relatively well-off family. My father, who passed away, was a customs officer. My mother is a retired university teacher. They gave me the chance to attend private schools.
"However, my mother made me study economics at university, although I didn’t want to. After three years, I couldn’t do it any longer.
"So I persuaded my mother to let me attend a Catholic school for midwives run by Italian nuns. I had to do very challenging admission tests. But I passed them all because I was so motivated. In fact, I graduated with the fourth highest grades in the whole of Senegal.
"Now all I want to do is help my country move forward. I want to share my knowledge with young people, and show them that it is possible to take a different route in life. I want to make sure they feel comfortable talking about sexual matters, and make sure that they have access to family planning.
"These are the reasons we did the outreach programme on the beach. By talking with us, the young people hopefully realised that they can take their destinies into their own hands – just the way me and my colleagues did.”
“Être sage-femme a toujours été ma vocation. Je suis née avec une passion pour ce métier. Etant jeune fille, tous ce que je voulais pour mon anniversaire était les kits médicaux. Vous savez, ces boîtes avec les crois rouges dessus? Ma mère me faisait des petits uniformes d’infirmières, et avec mes stéthoscopes, j’auscultais les poupées de mes amies.
"Ce métier me permet d’aider les femmes qui souffrent. Et il y en beaucoup ici au Sénégal. Croyez-moi, les femmes de mon âge qui habite avec leurs dix enfants dans une seule chambre – pas si rare que ça – ne sont pas heureuses. A part ça, ces femmes sont souvent en mauvaise santé. Leurs corps sont complètement épuisés du fait d’être enceintes tout le temps. Autrement dit, si elles ont la chance de ne pas mourir en couche. Les plus gros problèmes sont l’ignorance et la pauvreté. Beaucoup de femmes ne savent pas du tout éviter une grossesse. Et même si elles le savent, elles n’ont pas moyen de mettre leurs mains dessus.
"Moi-même, j’ai eu de la chance de ne pas finir comme ça, comme je suis issue d’une famille éduquée et relativement aisée. Mon père, qui est décédé, était agent de douane. Ma mère était professeur d’université à la retraite. Ils m’ont donné l’occasion d’aller dans des écoles privées. Cependant, ma mère m’a fait faire des études d’économie à l’université, même si je ne voulais pas. Après trois ans, je n’en pouvais plus.
"J’ai donc convaincu ma mère de laisser assister à une école catholique pour les sages-femmes gérés par les religieuses italiennes. J’ai dû passer des examens d’entrée très difficiles. Mais je les ai tous réussis parce que j’étais tellement motivée. En fait, j’ai obtenu mon diplôme avec les quatre meilleures notes de tout le Sénégal.
"Maintenant, tout ce que je veux faire c’est aider mon pays à avancer. Je veux partager mes connaissances avec les jeunes et leur montrer que c’est possible de suivre un autre chemin dans la vie. Je veux m’assurer qu’ils peuvent parler facilement des questions sexuelles et qu’ils ont l’accès à la planification familiale. Voilà les raisons pour lesquelles nous avons fait le programme à la plage. En parlant avec nous, espérons que les jeunes se rendent compte qu’ils sont chargés de leur propres destins – comme moi et mes collègues avons fait.”
Direct Relief's Senior Program Manager, Lindsey Pollaczek, sent this picture while on her trip in Somaliland:
Having a trained Community Midwife present in every village in Somaliland is part of Edna Adan’s vision to reduce maternal and newborn mortality across the country. The purpose of the Community Midwife is not to replace the doctor, who has a critical role in providing emergency cesarean sections for women experiencing complications, but to serve as a front-line health worker providing care in often rural and remote parts of the country. Until now there have been few or no health providers that can provide high quality care during pregnancy, delivery, and in the days and weeks after birth in these remote Maternal and Child Health Centers.
The Direct Relief Midwife Kit, donated to Edna Adan Hospital to be distributed to the Community Midwives that are practicing in areas throughout Somaliland, contains essential delivery instruments, basic diagnostic equipment and medical supplies to help a midwife like Sado put her training to use. Sado quickly recognizes all of the items in the Midwife Kit, and confirms readily she will be able to put them to good use. She is very thankful for the supplies and is particularly excited to see the headlamp, which she has not had before and will be a great help when women deliver at night since the health center has no electricity.
Read more about Direct Relief's support for midwives here - www.directrelief.org/focus/maternal-and-child-health/midw...
A midwife-nurse gives an infant an immunization shot at a postnatal clinic, South Carolina, 1940. Photo by esteemedhelga: www.flickr.com/photos/esteemedhelga/4325376377/
During PBS’ CALL THE MIDWIFE (Season 2) session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, actresses Pam Ferris, Helen George and Jessica Raine, producer Pippa Harris and producer/writer, Heidi Thomas discuss the upcoming season of the hit British drama. (Premieres Sundays, March 31 to May 19, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS.
For a much loved midwife who is retiring. This features her holding a baby and a variety of items that can typically be found in her bag. One of her bags has been a fax kete. The heart-monitor even has that lovely cold greasy blue gel with it!
Everything features from her maternity notes, cord clamp, stethoscope and heart monitor, to some flowers (she is into arranging them) rolled oats and red lentils (always has a bag of them both in her kit)
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(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID supports the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe, Ghana. The students get their practical experience at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital which is connected to the midwifery school. Student practice first on rubber dolls that "react" to certain actions by the students.
They attend lectures and their instructors do reenactments of women in labor.
Ernestina Oforiwa Akobeuah (RT) with the bun on her head and has dark glass is playing the role of woman in labor
She is one of the Preceptors who are running the midwifery students through a birth process and the care of a new born in the Skill's lab