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bainidhe_dub:
According to NPR, there are only three licensed midwives in the entire state of Maryland!
I found some more info - apparently Maryland doesn't allow CPMs to oversee home births, only midwives who are also certified nurses and work with an OB/GYN. Several groups are trying to get the more restrictive laws changed.
Grognard:
one of my wife's friends is a CNM.
she's trying to get my wife to get trained.
Barmymoo:
The difficulty of practising as a midwife is one of the (admittedly numerous) reasons I won't be moving to the USA to live permanently. Are you looking into having a midwife? Can out-of-state midwives come in?
bainidhe_dub:
I have no idea, it was just mentioned in the radio news this morning that somebody had brought up reforms in the state house, but apparently they tried it last year too and that one never made it out of council.
Aimless:
The past few weeks have been chock full o' learnin' :o among other things, I've learned a new structured way to discuss functional seizures with patients, learned a few "new" tricks for dealing with tricky migraine in combination with other chronic headache, learned about some really cool changes to the field of parkinsons wrt disease course as well as a few mysterious phenomena r/t a specific treatment regime, learned that there are DBS-systems that can use feedback mechanisms in order to activate and modulate themselves based on activity rather than just being go go go all the time, learned about some cool research into neurological aspects of space-travel... and that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's been a cavalcade of interesting facts and observations.
The two highlights:
- apparently the annual number of people in northern Sweden who ask to undergo some sort of gender-/sex-change procedure has nearly doubled in the last few years.
- S.A.D. follows V.D. :D
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