Believe Midwifery Services
Penny Lane MSN, CNM
Holly Hopkins MSN, CNM
Believe Midwifery Services will be celebrating their THIRD year in practice on October 7th. Join us from 10am thru 4pm.
Awarded as a nominee for the Spirit of Service Award for Contribution to the Field of Perinatal Health in 2010 by the Indiana Perinatal Network
Penny Lane Awarded the 2009 Advancement of Nursing Award by the Indiana State Board of Nursing and the Indianapolis Star at the Salute to Nurses Banquet
Believe Midwifery Services
118 West Main Street
Thorntown, IN 46071
ph: 765-436-7527
fax: 765-436-7114
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Practice Statistics
Believe Midwifery Services, LLC opened its doors during Nurse Midwifery Week in October of 2007. Penny Lane MSN, CNM caught the first baby in the practice in February of 2008. The statistics below incorporate each and every client who has entered care with Believe Midwifery Services, LLC to-date.
Transfer Rate during Antepartum Period 7%
Updated 3/2009
Antepartum transfers are those that occur during the pregnancy, prior to the intiation of labor. Reasons for an antepartum transfer might include severe preeclampsia, fetal stress, breech birth, or an acute emergency like an automobile accident.
Transfer Rate during Intrapartum Period 3%
Updated 3/2009
Intrapartum transfers are those that occur after the onset of labor, yet prior to the birth of baby. Reasons for an intrapartum transfer might include preterm labor, fetal stress, and obstetrical emergencies which are the rare exception in non-interventive births.Transfer Rate during Postpartum Period 2%
Updated 3/2009
Postpartum transfers are those that occur when mother experiences complications after the birth of her child. These might include a postpartum hemorrhage, retained placenta, postpartum preeclampsia, infection, or a third/fourth degree perineal laceration.Transfer Rate for Newborn Care 0%
Updated 3/2009
Newborn transfers can occur anytime during the first six weeks of life, as our midwife continues primary care for the newborn throughout that time. Reasons for a newborn transfer might be an emergent need such as respiratory distress, infection, or a birth defect, but it might also be a complication that occurs days or weeks following birth. These reasons might be elevated jaundice levels, umbilical infections, respiratory infections, and/or dehydration.Cesarean Rate from Intrapartum Period 0%
Updated 3/2009
This rate is specific to those cesareans that occur following our immediate management during the labor process and more accurately reflect our practice style. Clients of Believe Midwifery Services, LLC, however, have experienced cesareans after self-selected transfers from our practice for various reasons, such as breech presentation and post-dates.
Breastfeeding Rate at 6 Weeks 92%
Updated 3/2009
All of our mothers initiate breastfeeding. We have great concern for the breastfeeding success of our clientele. Barriers to obtaining pharmaceutical treatment for mastitis has negatively impacted our outcomes, yet with continued growth of our practice and development of firm and supportive relationships, this is no longer a barrier for our families. We have high hopes that each and every one of our mothers will succeed in breastfeeding beyond the child's first year, weaning when most optimal for the couple.
Practice Comparisons
The vast majority of central Indiana hospitals average cesarean rates above 30%, with a handful exceeding even 40%. Maternal mortality has risen each year for the last nine years, almost doubling in the last ten years.
This demonstrates a lack of safety in the hospital environment for the healthy birthing couple.
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Because we are too short, too tall, too thin, too small of foot, too old, too young, too wide, and our pelvises are too narrow, too small, too untried, or unproven or the wrong shape, and our uteruses are too scarred, or pointing the wrong way, or we are too multiparous, too fertile, too infertile, too female, too small, too big, too fat, too emotional, too detached, too strong, too weak, too intelligent, too well designed to birth, not designed well enough, and our vaginas are too scarred, too unproven, not stretchy enough or too stretchy, and we’re too inconvenient, too unpredictable, too demanding, too informed, too loud, too messy, and our bodies labour too long or not long enough, and our cervices don’t dilate 1 cm an hour on command and because when you hire a surgeon you get surgery and hospitals are for sick people… and so for these and many other reasons, we are part of the homebirth movement.
Believe Midwifery Services
118 West Main Street
Thorntown, IN 46071
ph: 765-436-7527
fax: 765-436-7114
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