Wish List
These are items Methow Midwifery & Women’s Health would like for the business. Any help in attaining them would be forever appreciated:
- Hand held newborn bilirubin meter (so babies don't have to get poked for a bilirubin level if they are jaundiced), such as the BiliChek® Noninvasive Bilirubin System. (1-800-345- 6443 ext 74929 Greg, quoted $2500, plus $7 for a new tip each time one is used)
- Hand-made, wall-mounted, curved, wooden, folding infant changing table for the bathroom of our clinic. (Paul Gitchos quoted $350 to custom make this)
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring machine for over-due women needing non-stress tests. This would save women a trip to the hospital and is much needed. Portable, with printer, such as the Nicolet Versalab Antepartum Monitor (from Cascade Healthcare for $3200), or Huntleigh Healthcare's Baby Dopplex 3000 (for $3700 from the same place).
- A stainless steel surgical instrument called a cord bander that puts sterile rubber bands over the baby’s cut umbilical cord, rather than a clamp or tie. Then it doesn’t need to be removed, just falls off with the cord, and is not bulky and catching on the diaper ($95 at Cascade Healthcare).
- New or mildly used PC laptop computer or flat screen PC desktop computer for our office staff to replace the really slow and old computers we are both using.
- Flatscreen TV (color, big enough for students in a classroom circle to watch)
- DVD with VHS player (all in one- for our childbirth classes)
- Childbirth education tools for the doll and pelvis we already have:
- a knitted uterus (item 79803 from Childbirth Graphics for $43) to show effacement
- a model placenta and umbilical cord (item 79807 from Childbirth Graphics for $49)
- Books for our lending library (new or used fine, we can't have enough of these) :
- Birthing From Within by Pam England
- The Birth Partner by Penny Simpkin
- Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
- Welcome with Love by Jenny Overend
- DVDs/VHS for our childbirth classes and our clients (DVDs preferred where possible):
- The Timeless Way ($79 from Injoy)
- Better Breastfeeding: your guide to a healthy start ($159 from Injoy)
- Children at Birth ($59 from Cascade Healthcare)
- Lizzie and the Baby DVD ($199 from Cascade Healthcare)
- The Stages of Labor 2nd ed ($279 from Injoy)
- The Art of Birth ($47 at www.birthinternational.com)
- Op Eigen Kracht (a Dutch film. In English=Under her Own Steam- $47 from www.birthinternational.com)
- I Watched My Brother Being Born ($31 from www.birthinternational.com)
Updated February 2011
Methow Midwifery & Women's Health
214 N. Glover Street, PO Box 503
North Glover Healing Center,
Twisp, WA 98856
Ph 509-341-4256 ~ Fax 888-361-9674
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