Comments on: This is Batshittery.

By: Batshittery Redux: Sisterhood Before Safety | 10 Centimeters

Batshittery Redux: Sisterhood Before Safety | 10 Centimeters — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:03:23 +0000

[...] since I wrote the post This is Batshittery, I remain appalled and aghast at the continued support the homebirth community offers to killer [...]

By: Concerned Midwife

Concerned Midwife — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:14:00 +0000

I am a Midwife and to be honest I am disgusted to think that the beautiful field of Midwifery is being encrusted with this kind of crap. I take great pride in providing care and support to a women so she may give birth to a healthy and beautiful baby. It sounds like these so called midwives are trying to become the next Jack the ripper. I hope they finally get what is comming to them. How dare they drag every Midwife in to this mess. I do not support them and never will. They are despicable.

By: karen benfield

karen benfield — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:38:50 +0000

Heather, It still is not working. It says under construction or mainteance, etc. Is there any way that you can send it to my personal email of : BirthTender00@yahoo.com
Thanks

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:12:35 +0000

Karen, her link is working for me. It is a collection of screenshots from Amy Medwin’s facebook page where she is broadcasting the babies she delivered in September of this year (while she was under investigation for practicing midwifery without a license) and a screenshot of her giving a shout out to other illegal midwives in North Carolina by name. Try it here: http://www.themamatao.com/?p=971 ?

By: Jeff Richards

Jeff Richards — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:12:12 +0000

N.C. law only allows C.N.M.’s for a reason. N.C. is SMART enough to require that anyone holding themselves out to be a home birth alternative specialist AT A MINIMUM meet certain requirements. The law does not need to be changed to allow CPM’s (apparently recognized in other states but not this one) to practice in this state. CPM’S ARE NOT EVEN NURSES (rather do not have to be nurses)!!!!!!!!!!!! I am all for alternatives to traditional, meathook health care, but not to the point of allowing anyone to hold themselves out to be professional with no basic skills. I am sure this woman is wonderful at what she does, and I am sure she is very professional BUT THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE! A reduction in the requirements that the law currently mandates would be to allow anyone, who is not even a basic nurse, start attending and supervising home births. PLEASE LEGISLATORS DO NOT CHANGE THE LAW WHICH PROTECTS US!

By: Karen Benfield

Karen Benfield — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:57:43 +0000

Mama Tao,
I’ve been clicking on the link that you posted back in Oct. 2011 (just last month) but it says “website unavailalbe” Could you please e-mail me, personally. Thanks & We, finally, have more and more CNMs practicing homebirths here in NC. By my latest count of latest info that I have from CNMs in this state is that as of this January 2010 we will have 13 CNMs doing homebirths and spread throughout the state from a little west of Asheville, through the foothills/Blue Ridge Mtns./Hickory/Charlotte areas, and on to several in the Central and far Eastern parts of North Carolina.
Blessings to everyone,
Karen Benfield, CNM & Owner of BirthTender Midwifery, serving a 2 hr. radius of Hickory, NC

By: Deb O'Connell

Deb O'Connell — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:15:31 +0000

Great post. So sad this is going on in my community. Lisa Barrett is NOT representative of midwives attending homebirth safely, legally, and respectfully. She She is a criminal (not a midwife) and should be treated as such. No love loss here.

By: The Deranged Housewife

The Deranged Housewife — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:30:51 +0000

Likewise, I also don’t care for the seeming correlation of this person and the “NCB crowd.” Surely there are “fanatics” on either side of the fringe, and I think it’s just as careless to assume that NCB support reckless behavior like this all across the board. I am a homebirth and natural birth advocate, but like Barb, stand squarely in the middle.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:32:36 +0000

Sorry now not know, Im not the greatest when it comes to spelling.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:39:18 +0000

I agree but she was protected by the hospital and a system that does not like to look at baby deaths in hospitals. I had to wait 5 days to get my child’s body back so we could bury him, in that time an autopsy had been performed with out our knowledge or consent. When we requested his file we had been told it was ‘sealed’. $3000 later and still no answers, we are only giving up know as we can no longer afford legal help.