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Tyler TX Assisted Living Choices

June 26th, 2011

Tyler Texas Assisted LivingWhen choosing among the many Tyler Texas assisted living facilities it helps to know what value each facility offers.

Some elder care facilities in Smith County focus on the cafeteria menu as their primary selling point. You will find some facilities offer mainly heart healthy meals and others have primarly good home cooking menus that aren’t so stricked on “healthy”.

The niches within the elder care industry are independent living, memory care, heart dialisys care, and several care levels in between.

A new trend in assisted and independent living that allows residence an extended stay is to hire outside help for helping your loved one keep track and take their medication.

For many elderly people that would normally go over to a Tyler nursing home because of their memory issues regarding taking their meds they can now stay a little longer in independent or assisted living with the added help.

The costs associated with Tyler Texas assisted living can be handled by the staff that move your loved one in to their facility. They can help you fill out the required paper work so you get things done stress free and timely.

Going over details of benefits offered at each Tyler facility as well as failures regarding code of conduct will assist in you choosing the best facility.

With any elderly care community in Tyler it is always recommended that you go by during the day and night to meet the care workers that will be the ones primarily responsible for taking care of your loved one.

A big smile and strong handshake while looking at them in the eye will usually tell you all you need to know. If none of the care workers seem to give your surprise visit and greeting the time of day you can usually assume they are hiding something if the very least a guilty conscious.

Many of the questions and concerns surrounding elder care choices in Tyler Texas can be answered by an assisted living consultant. We recommend speaking to a consultant to get started today.

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Childbirth Services Midwifery in Tyler TX and is it worth it?

February 23rd, 2011

Melody and baby Noah

Childbirth services midwifery Tyler TX

Childbirth Services

200 East Houston Street
Tyler, TX 75702-8131
(903) 592-2406

Our family is a little unique but not too unique in that we are not anti-hospital anti-medicine but at the same time we sometimes see benefits in doing things a little more the natural way.

We also see some of the cooky things out their that people believe, do and say regarding herbs, anti-doctor brain washing, and vaccine conspiracy theories.

So although we are using a midwife this go around it is not like we don’t go to doctors, the hospital or even a pediatric doctor at ETMC, Mother Francis hospital and the like.

Our experience at the local Tyler TX hospital when our first son was delivered was an OK experience. I am not going to name which hospital we were at but the doctors we ended up with were all in training young doctors.

My wife had been seeing a midwife and was hoping to have the baby delivered by a female midwife but because she went into labor on the weekend we had these young doctors in training.

Again there is nothing wrong with having a young doctor and I can even see the benefit because they are trained in the latest technology and are not intimidated to learn new things through continuing education.

Great Childbirth Services Story

The bad aspect to the Tyler Texas hospital experience was the constant barrage to have pain medication administered including an Epidural.

The problem with the barrage of pain medication and delivery medication being encouraged by the nurses is that my wife was a low risk pregnancy. She did not need all of this and in fact it has scientifically been proven that these meds have adverse effects on the baby.

If the mother declines meds once it should not be encouraged further especially in a low risk pregnancy situation because the meds can create further medical problems that can actually create a situation where a C section must be surgically performed when had the meds never been used the mother could have easily delivered the baby naturally.

In contrast a midwife will not encourage the use of meds to speed up delivery which means additional pain meds to reduce the pain caused by medication used to speed delivery time will not need to be encouraged either.

This removal of unnecessary medication almost completely eliminates the possibility of an emergency C section.

A midwife will deliver the baby, allow the father to cut the umbilical cord and in case there is an emergency can drive you straight to the emergency room in time to have a C section performed if necessary.

Because medication will not be used to speed up delivery a C section will almost never be needed.

Just a few months ago someone close to our family was well on her way to delivering her baby and the babies head had even begun to cone but because delivery medication was administered to speed up delivery time an emergency C section was performed.

The C section was done wrong and once this mother was stapled shut the doctors had to rip her back open and perform the surgery all over again. Did these young doctors accidentally leave something in her? No one knows but they added another C section to their experience (make that 2 C sections) and had this mother not been given medicines to speed delivery she would have never had to have gone through the C section surgery.

C sections can cause hernias to develop later on and are a very invasive surgery as you see your guts taken out of your body and set beside your stomach as the baby is removed.

If you have a low risk pregnancy a midwife can offer a minimal medically induced type of pregnancy that can be as natural as you would like it to be. There is no pressure by doctors and nurses to add medications and perform C sections which have become a matter or protocol in many hospitals in the US.

A midwife watches for any signs of problems and will be happy to send you on to the hospital if anything wrong appears during the delivery process. Thalia with Childbirth Services in Tyler Texas is a great midwife to use.

Many of our close friends and family have used Thalia and Childbirth Services and have many healthy children. If you haven’t thought about Midwifery in Tyler we encourage you to look into it as an alternative to the hospital route but for some people the hospital is still the best way to go.

P.S. Check out “The Business of Being Born” documentary on Netflix. Very informative on midwives.

Childbirth Services, midwifery in Tyler TX