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Birth Statistics - Hackettstown Midwives
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2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| Total Births |
210 |
249 |
273 |
268 |
326 |
C/S Rate |
15.3% |
11.0% |
13.6% |
10.0% |
11.0% |
| Primary C/S |
12.0% |
9.2% |
12.2% |
10.0% |
11.0% |
| Inductions |
20.0% |
18.5% |
18.1% |
14.5% |
11.0% |
| Epidural |
7.9% |
10.5% |
12.1% |
16.0% |
20.0% |
| Tub (Labor) |
61.0% |
61.0% |
58.0% |
57.0% |
58.0% |
| Waterbirths |
32.6% |
47.0% |
42.5% |
40.0% |
35.5% |
| Episiotomy |
5.0% |
4.1% |
5.5% |
3.0% |
4.3% |
| Breastfed |
74.3% |
84.0% |
74.5% |
77.0% |
92.0% |
Staff Biographies
Roxann Mitchell, RN, CNM
After working as a nurse at Hackettstown Community Hospital for 15 years,
Roxann's passion to improve a woman's labor and delivery experience led
her to become a midwife in 1992. She has since attended more than 500
births and was one of the pioneers of the waterbirth option now offered
at the hospital.
- Married with one daughter.
- Graduated in 1994 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey with a certificate in midwifery.
- Midwifery experience has been centered at Hackettstown Community
Hospital after one year at Lehigh Valley Hospital's Birth Center.
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Cindy Redmond, RN, CNM
After working as a labor and delivery nurse at Hackettstown Community
Hospital, Cindy followed her passion to improve a woman's labor and delivery
experience by becoming a midwife in 1998. Gaining experience in birth
centers in Pennsylvania, Cindy joined Obstetrics and Gynecology Associates
in September 1998.
Married with three children. Recently caught her first grandchild, Abigail,
at a birth center in Pennsylvania.
- Graduated in 1998 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey with a certificate in Nurse Midwifery.
- Partnered with Roxann Mitchell to introduce the waterbirth
option at the Childbirth Center at Hackettstown Community Hospital.
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Lisa Lederer, RN, CNM
Lisa was inspired to become educated in midwifery after the birth of her
second child at a birth center attended by a midwife. She brings to her
care 'the philosophy that birth belongs to women, not modern medicine....we
need to reclaim it as ours'.
- Married since 1987 and the mother of four children.
- Christian
- Beginning as an RN, graduated in 1994 from the University of Medicine
and Dentistry - School of Health Related Sciences.
- Work experience includes working in birth center settings in Pennsylvania
until starting with OB/GYN Associates in January 2001.
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The whole
point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman
is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve help;
but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have
the power.
- Heather McCue |
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