Full Circle Midwifery Statistics 1984 – 2016
FULL CIRCLE MIDWIFERY STATISTICS
January 1, 1984 through December 31, 2016
Total planned home births: 1488
Total transports: 114 [ 7.6 % ]
Mothers transported in labor: 81
Cesareans 44 [ 3% ]
Forceps/Vacuum 8
Mothers transported within 24 hours postpartum: 21
Babies transported within 24 hours after home birth: 12
Counties: Benzie 2 Kent 12 Lake 18 Manistee 43 Mason 183 Mecosta 113 Montcalm 13 Muskegon 293 Oceana 223 Ottawa 102 Newaygo 337 Osceola 78 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: 311 [ 20 % ]
Grandmultiparas (more than 7 births): 148
Twins (17 sets home born): 22 sets, 21 sets vaginally born
Presentation of baby:
Vertex (head down) 1486
Breech (11 home born) 23
Mom’s position for vaginal birth:
Side-lying 516
Semi-sitting 474
Hands and knees 228
Supine (lying down) 117
Upright (standing, squatting or birth stool) 129
Waterbirths: [46% last year; 33% in 2015] 210
Lacerations with vaginal births:
None or superficial only 1030 [ 71 % ]
1st degree 339
2nd degree (into muscle) 65
3rd degree (into rectal sphincter) 1
-stitched 130
Episiotomy and stitches (all transports) 7
Rupture of membranes > 24 hours (3 maternal infections): 86
Males: 805
Females: 705
Average baby’s weight (range of 3 # 12 oz. to 12 # 5 oz.) : 8# 7 oz.
Males circumsized: 207 [ 26 % ]
Births missed by Midwives: 64
VBACS (vaginal birth after previous csec): [ 87% successful ] 138 [ 19 repeat csecs ]
Screened out for home birth: 55
