*Content warning: pregnancy, birth, infant & pregnancy loss, medical negligence, medical trauma. *Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resources Amy Giles’ Birth Center & Bio: Allen Midwifery & Family Wellness: https://allenmidwifery.com/ Amy’s Bio: https://nursing.baylor.edu/person/l-amy-giles-dnp-cnm-cne-facnm *Sources: After a C-section, women who want a vaginal birth may struggle to find care https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/c-section-vbac-vaginal-maternal-health American College of Nurse Midwives https://midwife.org/ American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) https://www.acog.org/ Cardiac conditions in pregnancy and the role of midwives: A discussion paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles C-Section Rates By Hospital https://www.leapfroggroup.org/sites/default/files/Files/C-Section-Graphic-final.pdf March of Dimes https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/about-us Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) https://www.meacschools.org/ National Midwifery Institute https://www.nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com/midwifery North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) https://narm.org/ Postpartum Hemorrhage https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/postpartum-hemorrhage Postpartum Hemorrhage https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22228-postpartum-hemorrhage Practice profile of members of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9277066/ Salary and Workload of Midwives Across Birth Center Practice Types and State Regulatory Structures https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35191600/ State investigating Dallas birth center and midwives, following multiple complaints from patients https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/state-investigating-dallas-birth-center-midwives-following-multiple-complaints-from-patients/287-ea77eb18-c637-44d4-aaa2-fe8fd7a2fcef Texas Administrative Code https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/ Thyroid Disease & Pregnancy https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/endocrine-diseases/pregnancy-thyroid-disease Zucker School of Medicine, Amos Grunebaum, MD https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/13732-amos-grunebaum/publications *SWW S22 Theme Song & Artwork: Thank you so much to Emily Wolfe for covering Glad Rag’s original song, U Think U for us this season! Hear more from Emily Wolfe: On Spotify On Apple Music https://www.emilywolfemusic.com/ instagram.com/emilywolfemusic Glad Rags: https://www.gladragsmusic.com/ The S23 cover art is by the Amazing Sara Stewart Follow Something Was Wrong: Website: somethingwaswrong.com IG: instagram.com/somethingwaswrongpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@somethingwaswrongpodcast Follow Tiffany Reese: Website: tiffanyreese.me IG: instagram.com/lookieboo
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I'm Amy Giles. I'm a certified nurse midwife. I've owned a birthing center north of Dallas for several years. I've worked there since 2006. Our birth center is Allen Midwifery and Family Wellness, and we're in Allen, Texas, which is north of Dallas. I really enjoy taking care of women at the birthing center. I also teach nurse midwife students at Baylor University.
And that's another passion of mine is to build up the next generation of nurse midwives. I'm not from Texas, I'm from Louisiana. I moved here to go to Baylor for undergraduate school. I got married to a Texan and so I decided to stay. But when I got pregnant with our first baby, I really didn't have a provider. Since I wasn't from here, I used to go home to have my annual exams.
I asked a friend of mine where she had delivered her babies, and she said at a large facility downtown, and it's a teaching hospital. She said that she had a nurse midwife, and I had never heard of a nurse midwife before she told me that. Even though I was a nurse at the time, it just wasn't something that was popular 27 years ago. So I convinced my husband to go and meet this nurse midwife.
And when we walked in, it was such a completely different experience than being at any other physician office. We went in, we sat down, she asked about us as people and about our relationship, what we wanted to get out of the pregnancy, how we wanted to have a baby. And then she did all of this education to help us know what to expect and how your body works.
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