Holding NARM (North American Registry of Midwives) Accountable
Wow these women are completely protected. Home birth advocated say to me constantly, "Babies die at the hospital also." I am aware of this you can read the chapter of My blog titled, "Kanoy". I know babies die at the hospital but at least there is accountability if they die at the hospital. If your baby dies in the hospital on behalf of a negligent doctor believe me that doctor can not run. I'm not saying that the doctor can not get away with it either but what I am saying is hospitals have insurance. These midwives and NARM have nothing for a mother who loses a baby due to midwife incompetence and that is something that women that plan to birth at home should think about. If your baby dies at home and it's the midwives fault then who will you run to. NO ONE because there is no one to run to. There is no accountability if a CPM makes a mistake. They will lie and they will cover things up they will do whatever it takes to forget about you and what happened. The worst part is that they will continue to deliver babies like they did not commit murder and NARM is okay with these actions as long as home birthing women are not aware of these things.
I hope my blog can save at least one mother and one baby. These midwives stick together so that their organizations will continue to exist. The midwife took my money, killed my baby, and ran and is still delivering babies. I bet you she makes sure she is on time now for all her deliveries or maybe not because she was never punished. She had no insurance and doesn't care that she held the cards for my daughters life and she bluffed. She ran to a lawyer who is also a midwife, OMG who is regulating these women. This is worst than a horror movie.
This matter is very serious and until some one is truly listening I think that home birth must be put on hold. YES!!!! That's right no more birthing at home until I talk to who's in charge. I don't want anymore babies to have to die at home in the hands of inexperienced women who call themselves midwives. All midwives with a license must be audited now!
Women if your are pregnant you must finish your prenatal care in the hospital until home birth is safe again, right now unfortunately it is not safe. As a mother that has lost a child to home birth and midwife neglect I am really raising awareness to NARM because they are giving the licenses. The accountability department with NARM is a prop. Its nearly just a department for show it's been almost a year and these midwives still have not met with me or my husband which lets me know that they do not take death seriously. They quit answering my phone calls and emails. I am furious and my job now is to let women know who plan on birthing at home with CPM or even at birthing centers, having a baby outside of a true hospital is dangerous and very risky and there is no accountability if something goes wrong. Think again for the sake of your life and your unborn child.
Have you considered bringing your story to the local newspaper?
ReplyDeleteyes tried that already they said they didn't have experience on reporting homebirth and midwives and they were not going to pretend to.
DeleteWow, that behavior is disgusting. But in my experience, NARM is much more about protecting homebirth and midwives than protecting the lives of women and babies. It's a sham! I'm so sorry you are having to go through this. But your persistance and fortitude is amazing. Thank you for speaking the truth.
ReplyDeleteThe behavior is indeed disgusting, not disgusting enough for me to give up. They do protect homebirth and midwives and they are in the business of brainwashing with all these videos and books on natural homebirth and so on. They help brainwash women into staying away from hospitals and that's scary. Thanks again.
DeleteThis is outrageous. NARM has already been hiding their death rates for years, and stories like yours make me wonder how many deaths they aren't even counting, because they're giving mothers the run-around. I'm really sorry they're treating you this way. It makes me so angry that they care so little about the lives of children, mothers, and families.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem lies with keeping track of women and babies at the beginning you know? You see women are just hiring midwives to birth them at home but if the midwife is not reporting or recording your prenatal records and charts during pregnancy progress who will know what is truly going on when it is going on. No one is watching the midwives is the problem NARM is definitely not watching their midwives they just let them play in the sand by theirself
Delete......and when there is a problem NARM jumps in protecting their sweet an innocent midwives. NARM must be more active during a pregnancy. The midwife should never be this independent.
DeleteI started a petition to try to get these midwives regulated federally. Please sign and share if you want to try and bring this to the obama administration's attention.
ReplyDeletehttps://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/review-direct-entry-midwife-credential-safety-and-accountability/hF2dcL6g
I syarted with a m8dwife who worked with an OBGYN. She was nuts, I switched to the doctor qhen I found out that my son was frank breech. Do not play with your child's life, be safe, be wise, and trust in God given science and not in old wives tales. Amen Sister.
ReplyDeleteVery true, indeed very true!
DeleteThank you so much