Mary Friedlein, CPM, BSN, Instructor
I've had the privilege of teaching NRP since 1996. And on May 10th, 2014 at the Family Birth Services Birth Center in Grand Prairie, TX founded by Helen Jolly, CPM, I was delighted to teach my 100th NRP class.
I primarily teach midwives, midwifery students and others whose work involves birth outside of an institution and who desire to support women and their newborn wholistically. This also includes healthcare professionals who are interested in missionary service, emergency preparedness, and disaster care.
My background includes maternal-child related hospital staff nursing, mostly on Labor and Delivery with some Newborn Intensive Care Unit and assisting in both Well-Baby Nursery and Postpartum. Later, as a midwife and childbirth educator, I felt called to support women to carry out their birth-plan as they fulfilled their dream of a healthy, joyous, unmedicated birth. While it is possible for this to take place in some hospitals, for example, as with the Bradley Method, and in truly home-like, free-standing birthing centers, it is most often in a home birth where the mother can fully relax and birth freely in her own familiar environment.
We are finding many advantages to mother and newborn to birth as undisturbed as possible wherever the location. However, there do seem to be a variety of intriguing advantages to birthing in the home...For more information on this see a recent issue of one of my very favorite magazines, Midwifery Today, Summer 2014, Issue 110.
As a midwife I know birth as a natural function and not an illness, and approaching birth in this manner tends to enable the best possible outcome. That being the case, it makes sense to also support natural processes as much as possible in newborn resuscitation. A resuscitation can be most effective supporting the natural physiology of the mother and infant even as we apply appropriate technology and integrate into the emergency medical system as necessary.
The priority is to provide appropriate assistance to the newborn, gently and carefully, seeking to provide effective care while lessening stress and preventing or minimizing separation of infant from the mother as much as possible.
Regarding Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, otherwise referred to as BLS or CPR, we also explore how to provide the most effective care in situations presenting outside of institutions while seeking to lessen stress on the individual we assist.
If this is what you are looking for I hope you'll join us at a class soon!
I primarily teach midwives, midwifery students and others whose work involves birth outside of an institution and who desire to support women and their newborn wholistically. This also includes healthcare professionals who are interested in missionary service, emergency preparedness, and disaster care.
My background includes maternal-child related hospital staff nursing, mostly on Labor and Delivery with some Newborn Intensive Care Unit and assisting in both Well-Baby Nursery and Postpartum. Later, as a midwife and childbirth educator, I felt called to support women to carry out their birth-plan as they fulfilled their dream of a healthy, joyous, unmedicated birth. While it is possible for this to take place in some hospitals, for example, as with the Bradley Method, and in truly home-like, free-standing birthing centers, it is most often in a home birth where the mother can fully relax and birth freely in her own familiar environment.
We are finding many advantages to mother and newborn to birth as undisturbed as possible wherever the location. However, there do seem to be a variety of intriguing advantages to birthing in the home...For more information on this see a recent issue of one of my very favorite magazines, Midwifery Today, Summer 2014, Issue 110.
As a midwife I know birth as a natural function and not an illness, and approaching birth in this manner tends to enable the best possible outcome. That being the case, it makes sense to also support natural processes as much as possible in newborn resuscitation. A resuscitation can be most effective supporting the natural physiology of the mother and infant even as we apply appropriate technology and integrate into the emergency medical system as necessary.
The priority is to provide appropriate assistance to the newborn, gently and carefully, seeking to provide effective care while lessening stress and preventing or minimizing separation of infant from the mother as much as possible.
Regarding Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, otherwise referred to as BLS or CPR, we also explore how to provide the most effective care in situations presenting outside of institutions while seeking to lessen stress on the individual we assist.
If this is what you are looking for I hope you'll join us at a class soon!