I am happy to help you out and I have one place left open for August. However, if you have made a contract with another midwife, you must speak with her first and cancel as we are careful not to step on each other's toes! Then call me right away and we can arrange a meeting before I will be booked up for August. Ilana

באתר אמה"י תמצאי את כל הכתובות של מיילדות הבית בישראל.
יש שתי דרומיות הילרי ושיין מעומר ומהנגב
בהצלחה

Happy to help you if you come to my zimmerim, near Rechovot-Ramla , on Moshav Yashresh. Check out my website at www.birthathome.co.il Ilana SHemesh, midwife

שלום לכולן
במסגרת קורס בלימודי השלמה לדוקטורט בלימודי מגדר אני מבקשת לראיין אשה שילדה בלידת ביתית.
מדובר בראיון של עד שעה שבו אבקש לשמוע על הלידה.
פרטי המרואיינת יישארו חסויים.
אני אגיע אל המרואיינת בזמן ובמקום שיהיה נוח לה. רצוי מישהי מת"א או מאזור המרכז.
תודתי האינסופית תמסר בתמורה:)
שנה טובה
אבישג

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