{"id":121,"date":"2016-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/looking-at-the-risks-of-home-birth-be-careful-what-midwife-you-use-p3-1\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:33:59","slug":"looking-at-the-risks-of-home-birth-be-careful-what-midwife-you-use-p3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/looking-at-the-risks-of-home-birth-be-careful-what-midwife-you-use-p3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at the risks of home birth: be careful what midwife you use, P.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been looking in recent posts at the issue of home birth, the risks involved, and midwife professional liability. One important point we need to make about this topic is that, while home birth may be inherently risky, particularly for certain women, those who do take the risk of having a home birth don\u2019t assume all the risk in the eyes of the law. Licensed midwives are still bound by professional standards of care and must answer for their negligence when they harm a patient.<\/p>\n<p>Not every error will rise to the level of malpractice, of course, but only errors which violated an established standard of care. The American College of Nurse Midwives has defined certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwife.org\/ACNM\/files\/ACNMLibraryData\/UPLOADFILENAME\/000000000051\/Standards_for_Practice_of_Midwifery_Sept_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">general standards<\/a> which licensed midwives are bound to follow. For example, as we\u2019ve been discussing, midwives are expected to be qualified practitioners, which implies licensing, training and education as required. The standards of care cover a number of other areas of practice. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following are some of the expectations included in the practice standards:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/looking-at-the-risks-of-home-birth-be-careful-what-midwife-you-use-p3-1\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Looking at the risks of home birth: be careful what midwife you use, P.3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been looking in recent posts at the issue of home birth, the risks involved, and midwife professional liability. One important point we need to make about this topic is that, while home birth may be inherently risky, particularly for certain women, those who do take the risk of having a home birth don\u2019t assume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injuries","tag-birth-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking at the risks of home birth: be careful what midwife you use, P.3 &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; May 18, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking at the risks of home birth: be careful what midwife you use, P.3 - Birth Injuries - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/looking-at-the-risks-of-home-birth-be-careful-what-midwife-you-use-p3-1\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Looking at the risks of home birth: be careful what midwife you use, P.3 &#8212; 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