Full Circle Midwifery

FULL CIRCLE MIDWIFERY STATISTICS

January 1, 1984  through  December 31, 2018

Total planned home births:                                                                1598

Total  transports:                                                                                121   [ 7.4 % ]

Mothers transported in labor:         85

Cesareans                           47   [ 3% ]

Forceps/Vacuum                  9

Mothers transported within 24 hours postpartum:                 23

Babies transported within 24 hours after home birth:13

Counties:  Benzie 2     Kent  14  Lake 18    Manistee  47   Mason 198      Mecosta   122      Montcalm  15  Muskegon 321    Oceana 237    Ottawa  115    Newaygo  359   Osceola  78    plus 72 births attended in Allegan, Clare, Eaton, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Ingham, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Midland, Missaukee, Shiawassee, Wayne & Wexford counties, usually assisting other midwives.

Oldest mom     47,         Youngest mom     16

First baby or first vaginal birth:                                                             329   [ 20 % ]

Grandmultiparas   (more than 7 births):                                                  156

Twins   (17 sets home born):                                                        22 sets, 21 sets vaginally born

Presentation of baby:

Vertex    (head down)                                                           1595

Breech    (11 home born)                                                         25

Mom’s position for vaginal birth:

Side-lying                                                                              538

Semi-sitting                                                                          505

Hands and knees                                                                 261

Supine   (lying down)                                                          125

Upright   (standing, squatting or birth stool)                142

Waterbirths:  [40% last 4 years]                                                           256

Lacerations with vaginal births:

None or superficial only                                                          1096 [ 68 % ]

1st degree                                                                             375

2nd degree   (into muscle)                                                 69

3rd degree      (into rectal sphincter)                                 1

-stitched                                                                        143

Episiotomy and stitches   (all transports)                         8

Rupture of membranes > 24 hours   (3 maternal infections):                      92

Males:                                                                                              855

Females:                                                                                          765

Average baby’s weight  (range of 3 # 12 oz. to 12 # 5 oz.) :              8# 4 oz.

Males circumsized:                                                                             211   [ 25 % ]

Births missed by Midwives:                                                                  70

VBACS   (vaginal birth after previous csec): [ 87% successful ]         149   [ 19 repeat csecs ]

Screened out for home birth:                                                                  63