Another birth assistant has been arrested on similar counts, prompting both women, and a lineup of supportive birth activists, to hold a virtual press conference this week about the region’s maternal-healthcare crisis.
Less than two months after upstate New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin was indicted on 95 felony charges for providing home-birth support to the sizable Mennonite community of Yates County, another birth assistant was arrested on similar counts, prompting both women, and a lineup of supportive birth activists united as Friends of Elizabeth Catlin, to hold a virtual press conference this week about the region’s maternal-healthcare crisis — even making connections to the current coronavirus...
Catlin — whose midwifery certification is recognized in 34 states but not New York, and who primarily assisted women in the large hospital-averse Mennonite community of Yates County during planned home births — was arrested in December of 2018. A year later, she was indicted on a wide array of charges, including criminally negligent homicide, of an infant who died after the laboring mother was transferred to an area hospital. She now awaits trial.
Eifert declined to answer further questions about either matter, “as there is a trial pending and both cases are intertwined,” he told Yahoo Lifestyle. She added that those parents — whose baby boy was born septic at a local hospital following the mother’s transfer there by Catlin, and who died while being rushed to yet another hospital for care — “said, ‘It has been very hard. We could not breathe. We are constantly reminded that Liz is being blamed. We don’t blame her, why should somebody else?’”
CPMs, meanwhile, become nationally accredited through an apprenticeship or educational program , or a combination of the two; there are nearly 3,000 CPMs in the U.S., almost all of whom attend home births . While there was once a path for granting an exception to licensure in New York, that changed in 2011, excluding midwives like Catlin because they don’t have a master’s degree.
The need for more prenatal care, particularly out of hospital, is even greater now, she said, given the current pandemic. “The worst place that a low-risk, healthy [pregnant] woman should be is in a hospital full of sick people that could potentially have the coronavirus. We need more midwives, we need to allow more to become licensed.
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