A Certified Nurse-Midwife practice is the independent management of women’s health care, focusing on pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, care of the newborn, and the family planning and gynecological needs of women.
The certified nurse-midwife practices within a health care system that provides for consultation, collaborative management, or referral as indicated by the health status of the patient. Certified nurse-midwives practice in accordance with the current Standards of the Practice of Nurse Midwifery, as defined by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
At Southern Crescent Women’s Healthcare, you may see a nurse-midwife to monitor the health of you and your baby during the nine months prior to delivery. Their focus is on education and making sure the patient is well informed throughout the pregnancy. Our team of Certified Nurse-Midwives are available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Additional staff now enables you to choose a midwife delivery at Southern Regional Medical Center.
Currently, we are not offering mdiwife deliveries at Piedmont Fayette Hospital.
Certified Nurse-Midwives are covered by private insurance carriers, including Tricare.
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Midwives Tips for Morning Sickness
Nausea, with or without vomiting, is known as “morning sickness” but may occur any time of the day or night. Although we do not know exactly why women experience morning sickness, some thoughts are: hormonal changes during pregnancy, low blood sugar, gastric overload, slowed movement of the intestines, enlarged uterus, and emotional factors.
Take heart. in most cases morning sickness goes away by the 14th week of pregnancy.
Try the following to ease the symptoms:
· Eat small, frequent meals (every 2 hours). Avoid foods that smell "funny" or are not appealing to you at the time. Eat whatever sounds good. Let someone else do the cooking!
· Try the timeless remedy of crackers or toast (in bed) or just after you get up.
· Try ice cold beverages. Some women do better just sucking on ice. And some do better when they add a splash of lemon juice to their cold water.
· Try eating a protein snack just before going to bed, such as cheese & crackers, or peanut butter & toast.
· Stop your vitamins and iron supplements (temporarily) if you think they are adding to your morning sickness problem. Or try taking the vitamin at bedtime with a snack.
· Take a vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) tablet-25 mg, three times a day-every day. Ovaltine is enriched with vitamin B6.
· Take Unisom (doxylamine) 1 tablet (25 mg) at bedtime- with the vitamin B6. In the morning take ½ a tablet (with the B6). At 2 pm, ½ tablet with vitamin B6. Ask your pharmacist to help you find this medication. It is available over-the-counter and some brands are less expensive that others. In order for this to help, you need to take it regularly not just when you feel sick.
· Take ginger. You can find this spice in the health food or vitamin stores. Get the 250mg capsules. Take one capsule 4 times each day, or try nibbling on ginger snap cookies.
· Sea-Bands (seasickness prevention wrist bands) which are available at most drug stores help many women. Some women swear by them, and others do not find them helpful.
· If these suggestions do not work give us a call. We can prescribe medications that are not available over-the-counter. However, they can make you very sleepy; therefore it is wise to try the other remedies first.
If you ever find that you are among the very few who are unable to keep anything down for 48 hours (even liquids) give us a call. In these extreme cases we recommend that you come into the hospital for IV fluid therapy.
