Articles labeled: midwife

While two midwives undergo disciplinary action for delivering a stillborn baby, failing to notice the baby was stillborn and neglecting to use proper monitoring equipment that would have likely prevented the death, MT thinks more blame should be put on the parents.

The mother was warned by doctors as she previously had a c-section that a midwife, VBAC may not be in their unborn child’s best interest and was labeled a high risk pregnancy. They took the risk and they gambled with their baby’s life against a doctor’s advice. Their choice. Nobody’s fault but theirs. (Unless socialized medicine leaves you with no choice but to deliver with a midwife, then MT takes it all back.)

Sandra Bickers and Peter Davies, both 45, ignored instructions from a senior doctor and later on Davies did not even realise Scarlet had turned blue.

Mrs Reader and her husband Len watched in horror as the midwife promised the baby would be fine.

“He had put her on my chest and I said she looked blue,” Mrs Reader sobbed. “He hadn’t realised she was dead, he had no idea.”

The midwife hit the emergency alarm and the resuscitation team arrived to try to revive the baby but it was too late.

If you’re going to have a home birth — which already sparks heated debate about the risks involved — make sure to fully vet that midwife!

Midwife Kusum Churcher-Wells is alleged to have failed to check the baby, known as JK, for jaundice during a home delivery in metropolitan Melbourne in April, 2005.

The baby’s father complained to the Nurses Board of Victoria (NBV), alleging the baby was rendered profoundly deaf and permanently disabled with brain damage as a result.

A formal hearing was conducted at the NBV in Melbourne this morning.

Ms Churcher-Wells faces one breach of failing to adequately assess and further treat JK’s jaundice and another of failing to refer JK to a medical practitioner to assess and treat the jaundice.