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considering her options.
After
Leone Hines, 24, rejected the clini-
al, impersonal atmosphere of a hos
pital delivery room and decided to
rave her first child delivered by a
[midwife at home, where she could
.have champagne after the birth or
yecord the event on videotape.
At home, Hines, a Texas A&M
raduate student, was steadied by
he presence of her husband, who
hose to cut his newborn son’s um
bilical cord.
Hines says that for a combination
of reasons, among them comfort, se-
urity and affordability, her decision
fjWAt M' eni l ) l°y a midwife was an easy
f ^ Tuivf j ’ ,ne ’
She is just one of an increasing
_ I ■ number of Bryan-College Station
area women who are finding the
*^^■1 IVj services ol a midwife more attractive
than a hospital delivery.
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ig for 59 minutes. liveries by midwives in Bryan and
ihares resumed trade fcollege Station rose from 19 in 1983
n lost some morep to 49 in 1984, according to the Col
lege Station city secretary, who keeps
birth records for both cities. There
have been 61 home deliveries so far
|his year.
ay While home deliveries have risen
since 1983, the deliveries at St. Jo
seph Hospital have declined. In
1982, 2,340 births were recorded. In
1983, that number fell to 2,201 and
in 1984 that number again fell to
2,183, says Janet Deininger, director
of medical records. She did not offer
a reason for the decline.
A When midwife Donna Ruscher ar
rived in the Bryan-College Station
area there were three to five midwife
deliveries a month, she said. Now
there are almost eight a month, two
qi three of which are by A&M stu
dents, she says.
Leslie Paulson, Ruscher’s partner,
says business lias more than doubled
during the three and a half years she
has delivered in the area.
“And within the Mexican-Ameri-
can community, it (the number of
home births by midwives) has in
creased rpore than that,” she says.
Because many Mexican-Ameri-
cans are accustomed to a woman’s
presence in the delivery room, she
Tracey Wilkinson, 18,
who recently gave birth
with the help of a mid
wife, says, “The hospital
sometimes leaves you dur
ing labor. My midwife was
always there (during la
bor). When my back hurt,
she was there to rub it. ”
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says, they are more likely to choose
delivery by a midwife because they
say it makes them feel more com
fortable.
Outside the Mexican-American
community, the personalized assis
tance offered by a midwife also in
fluences a woman’s choice.
Tracey Wilkinson, 18, who re
cently gave birth with the help of
Ruscher, says, “The hospital some
times leaves you during labor. My
midwife was always there (during la
bor). When my back hurt, she was
there to rub it.”
Hines says, “During labor and de
livery, Donna (Ruscher) stayed with
me from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.”
She also says that midwives realize
the importance of a birth to the
woman.
“In the hospital, they do what is
convenient to them, not to you,”
Hines says.
Besides the personal touch of
fered by a midwife, midwife patients
say they enjoy the quality treatment
-of-hospita!
Hines says, “They don’t do a slop
job. It’s very professional.”
Before accepting a patient, Paul
son, who is a licensed vocational
nurse, says she compiles a prenatal
profile on the expectant mother.
Her initial laboratory tests check for
diabetes, anemia, venereal disease
and determine weight and blood
type, she says.
If the mother is anemic, over
weight, diabetic, has high blood
pressure or a venereal disease, or if
the fetus is positioned in an abnor
mal way, Paulson says she will not
perform the delivery and recom
mends hospital delivery.
After the initial check, Paulson
monitors the mother’s blood pres
sure and the baby’s heart rate and
performs other tests once a month
until the eighth month, when they
are performed twice a month. In the
ninth month, she says she runs the
tests three times.
Paulson says she has three and a
half years of experience as a mid
wife. Ruscher says she has been a
midwife for seven years, after she
apprenticed under a doctor and an
other midwife.
Many women also choose delivery
by a midw'ife because of affordabil
ity, although middle-income patients
constitute almost one-half of Paul
son’s patients, she says.
Based on a three-day visit, a pa
tient at St. Joseph will spend an aver
age of $1,500 for delivery, varying
for the type of treatment received.
Those prices do not include prenatal
checkups before checking into the
hospital.
Paulson says she charges $295
plus $ 15 for each prenatal visit.
Hines says she spent $320, includ
ing prenatal visits and delivery, for
Ruscher’s services.
of an out-of-hospital delivery.
Both Wilkinson and Hines say
they were referred to the services of
their midwives by friends who used
one.
Alpha Kappa Psi
Says Congratulations to its new
members: The 1985 Fall Pledge Class
Stseve Abercia
Chris Adams
Kathi Amer
Dianne Blackwell
Jennifer Bridges
Laura Brown
Keith Cox
Anna Desai
John Fries
Sharon Hmcir
Cammy Jacob
Kirby Johnson
Mary Kirchner
Shirley Kleiber
Jim Kole
Kim Maddox
Marcy Younts
Robert Penshorn
Jason Sessom
Debbie Stafford
Brett Thames
Lisa Thelander
Ed Weinheimer III
John West
Joe Westrich
Great Job!
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