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Hi Dana,
Did you look with a mirror? Perhaps you have varicose veins there, and you see a big blue vein on the lips? In both cases, with or without veins, the most important thing is to not stay standing or sitting for too long and to try to take breaks and lie down, on you side, and raise your hips with a pillow. Try doing this every 2 hours for half an hour. You can also try a maternity belt or girdle to raise your stomach. Some women are helped by putting a stiff sponge between two pairs of underwear. You can try ice or magnesium compresses, as it may help. Also compresses with white oak bark (quercus alba)and hemamelas tea reduce swelling.The baby may change it's position which can make the swelling better. It is not dangerous and has nothing to do with tearing at the birth. You can use the epi-no unless you have varicose veins in the vulva. Ilana Shemesh

הטווח יכול להיות מרחק סביר של 40 דק נסיעה בערך מת"א.

Dear Tal,
Up till now most of us were able to get some sort of malpractice insurance, but now the company that we were using notified us that they are not renewing our insurance. We are looking for another option and while the ministry of health has written in it's guidelines that we should have insurance, they are doing nothing to help us get insurance. We are working on this problem with the help of a lawyer but it is a worldwide problem for independent home midwifery. We are a small pool of midwives and the insurance companies just don't want to deal with us as it is not profitable for them. Now, couples wanting a homebirth will have to sign a consent form that they are aware of this and obligate themselves not to sue the midwife in the case of a bad outcome from a homebirth. This is to protect the midwife and her family from being sued and her losing all her property and legal fees etc. Obviously, no midwife wants a bad outcome and we all try our best, but bad outcomes can happen rarely at home as they do in the hospital. Ilana

Your midwife will give you all the necessary documents to register the birth, which include: a letter from the midwife with the details of the birth with her stamp, a copy of her midwifery license, and a declaration signed by a lawyer (the midwife supplies this) or mayor, (that attests that she is telling the truth). You need to add to this some other proof of pregnancy with a doctors signature like an ultrasound or your pregnancy followup or tipat chalav card. Only a licensed midwife can supply you with all these documents. You do not need to go to the hospital in order to register. However, if you want to get the maanak lida then you need to go to hospital within 24 hours and be admitted for 12 hours. However, soon this will be changed and you will be able to get the maanak lida after a homebirth. When----Hopefully soon, but we don't know when the law will be changed. Ilana

I forgot to mention that with all these documents from the midwife, you also need to bring your ID cards, and go to the ministry of interior in your area (not small branches) and tell them that you want to register the baby after a homebirth. There should be no problems.

שוקלים את העניין מאד לחיוב כרגע
במיוחד על רקע החשש הגובר מסיכוני אשפוז בבתי חולים עם התפשטות שפעת החזירים

אז למעשה אם לא יולדים בבית חולים רגיל , לא מקבילים מענק לידה? בכמה מדובר?

If you don't give birth in the hospital, you don't get the maanak lida , unless you go after within 24 hours and get admitted for 12 hours. But according to the head of the Betuaach Leumi, this will soon change. For a first birth, it is around 1600 NIS, but for a subsequent birth it is only 400 NIS. Ilana