Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Medicine
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Licensed Midwives [18 VAC 85 ‑ 130]
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8/15/22  9:56 pm
Commenter: Jessica H.

Midwives are amazing
 

Don't limit midwives! They are amazing people with a breadth of knowledge and skills they should be permitted to use. Why take away lidocaine and force a woman who had an otherwise uncomplicated birth to have to go to the hospital for stitches when her midwife could handle it? Why are you wanting to keep them from accessing rhogam which helps a woman not develop rh+ antibodies that would harm her next baby? These proposals make no sense. Let midwives use their skills.

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