Midwifery

Length: 3:41
Link to YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHp7x7bStVs

Transcript

[0:00] [Visual & Audio]: El Rio Midwifery logo appears on a white background while light piano music plays in the background.

[0:05] Patient 01: They knew that I wanted to have more of a natural experience.

[0:09] Patient 02: They’re very conscious of your birth plan.

[0:12] Patient 03: I considered midwifery because I really wanted, just, an intimate birth experience.

[0:17] Patient 04: They are very open and welcoming, and the midwives are really loving and understanding.

[0:26] Greta Gill: My name is Greta Gill, I’m a Certified Nurse Midwife, and I’m the Director of Midwifery for El Rio Community Health Center. A Certified Nurse Midwife is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner, so we are Registered Nurses who have had advanced training in midwifery, the care of women in pregnancy, birth, and afterwards.

[0:49] Patient 02: When you decide to give birth at the birth center, what you expect is it to feel like home.

[0:55] Patient 03: It’s like you’re in a room, so it had a…a bed, again it had the birthing tub, and it has women that have been trained and done a lot of births, so they have a lot of experience just like the OBs, so they’re very well educated.

[1:09] Patient 05: The midwife that worked with me through my entire pregnancy did have hospital privileges, and she ended up being the one to deliver my first born, which was fantastic. So I got the same person from pre…from prenatal care to delivery, and even after.

[1:23] Patient 06: You know it’s scary for people, and so to have somebody who, you know, is a woman, who’s been through it before, who does it with a lot of, you know, uh, sensitivity.

[1:34] Greta Gill: We have incredible compassion for the people that come to us, from all walks of life.

[1:40] Patient 04: I think I really grew up…um, with the El Rio family, especially since I was born and then my pediatric was here, my dental was here, so it was, it’s more of um…a traditional thing of being here at the El Rio.

[1:55] Patient 06: El Rio started as a small community health center for the local area, and it had midwifery from the beginning.

[2:05] Patient 03: I think midwifery is for everyone. Um, I think it’s a wonderful option.

[2:10] Patient 05: They knew that I knew what was best for my body and for my baby.

[2:13] Patient 01: People say, well do I have to do what you did, where I do a no-drug birth. I think that scares some women. And I said that the really great thing about the midwife care is that they have all options.

[2:22] Patient 02: They really do want to do your birth plan. They don’t push their beliefs or anything on you. They want to do it how you want to.

[2:30] Midwife 01: This is, uh, a wonderful event in the life of a family, and…and I feel like it’s very sacred that we’re allowed into that space.

[2:40] Unidentified patient voice: That experience just let me, um, again naturally go through the childbirth process in a more comfortable way.

[2:47] Patient 05: Uh, the most positive aspect of the prenatal care I received here at El Rio was definitely the staff. Everybody made me feel really good about my decision and like I was making the best choices for my baby.

[2:57] Midwife 02: It was very empowering, giving another woman that strength in a time when you feel weak, when you feel like this baby is just going to come out, and I’m so scared because I’ve never done this before. I hope that they feel like it’s going to be okay.

[3:17] Greta Gill: El Rio as a community health center is here to serve the community’s needs, and we want to do that with the best possible medical research, with all the resources that we have, and the compassion.

[3:32] [Visual]: El Rio Midwifery logo fades in, music plays as screen fades to black.