FULL CIRCLE MIDWIFERY STATISTICS

January 1, 1984 through December 31, 2015

Total planned home births:                                                         1442

Total transports:                                                                           111   [ 7.6 % ]

Mothers transported in labor:                78

Cesareans                                      43   [ 3% ]

Forceps/Vacuum                             8

Mothers transported postpartum:         21

Babies transported after a home birth: 12

Counties: Benzie 2     Kent 11   Lake 18   Manistee 41     Mason 180     Mecosta   109       Montcalm 13   Muskegon 279   Oceana 215    Ottawa   96     Newaygo 330     Osceola 77   plus 71 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:                                                     306   [ 21 % ]

Grandmultiparas   (more than 7 births):                                        142

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

Presentation of baby:

Vertex   (head down)                                                     1441

Breech   (11 home born)                                                    22

Mom’s position for vaginal birth:

Side-lying                                                                          512

Semi-sitting                                                                       459

Hands and knees                                                              207

Supine   (lying down)                                                       116

Upright   (standing, squatting or birth stool)                      125

Waterbirths: [33% last year]                                                        189

Lacerations with vaginal births:

None or superficial only                                                    994 [ 71 % ]

1st degree                                                                         331

2nd degree   (into muscle)                                                   64

3rd degree     (into rectal sphincter)                                      1

-stitched                                                                     127

Episiotomy and stitches   (all transports)                             7

Rupture of membranes > 24 hours   (3 maternal infections):            83

Males:                                                                                           776

Females:                                                                                        688

Average baby’s weight (range of 3 # 12 oz. to 12 # 5 oz.) :                      8# 1 oz.

Males circumsized:                                                                        202   [ 26 % ]

Births missed by Midwives:                                                           62

VBACS   (vaginal birth after previous csec): [ 87% successful ] 135   [ 18 repeat csecs ]

Screened out for home birth:                                                           52