[CQ] Elmer day for some midwives?

Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 03:46:44 UTC 2011


We too had our baby (now 16!) at home, and my then-wife was training to 
be a midwife.

I'm in.

On 03/13/2011 08:40 PM, Josh Myer wrote:
> tl;dr: Please help teach some ticketed midwives how to use their HTs to
> coordinate in case of disaster.  Ping me if you want to be involved, and
> we'll coordinate off-list.
>
> We had our baby at home, with a midwife.  Things went great, etc, but
> they need to have two midwives at every birth: if something goes wrong
> with both mom and the baby... ugly triage situation.  Of course, births
> aren't exactly planned, so they need to do a lot of ad-hoc coordination.
>   These women still carry pagers, because They Will Work.
>
> Except when they don't.  Babies will be born after big earthquakes, when
> it's hard to get around town to ensure you have two midwives on hand.
>   And the hospitals will likely be packed, so they consider this
> situation particularly important. Many of them have their tickets, and
> little HTs, but they're not confident using them.  They just don't know
> how to work repeaters, what process/protocol is for using the radios,
> etc.  Our midwife specifically asked if I could "be their Elmer."  So
> they're not totally out of the loop.  Naomi bumped into another midwife
> at a cafe, who asked about the Elmer day.
>
> I'd love to do this for them, but, honestly, I'm not confident enough.
>   It seems like this is Important, and I should ask for help from real
> Elmers.  Would anyone here be willing to help run a small Elmer session?
>
> Alternately, what's the right organization in town to ask about this?
>   AERO?  Red Cross?
>
> Thanks so much, this is one of those things that amateur radio exists for!
>
> 73 KJ6ANM,
> --
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>
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