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)
- Digital Infant Scale, portable, with AC adapter, accurate to <1 oz, and >1 year warranty ….such as Medela’s Baby Weigh or Baby Checker scales, or the Tanita BD 590.
($1299 new, $420, and $258 respectively). This is helpful when we are trying to weigh infants that are not feeding well, and weigh them before and after breastfeeding to determine how much milk they transferred.- 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).
- An electric, hospital grade, double, breast pump for renting or loaning out to new mothers as needed. The Medela Lactina double pump ($879 new, used ok too), or the Medela Symphony ($1499 new-has two phase technology that more closely mimics a baby’s sucking, is quieter, and lighter weight). Both of these pumps can be used by many mothers and not get cross contaminated. Women buy their own kit to go with the pump for $45 which we hope to have a stock of as well in the future. Money can be donated to MMWH for this item and we have a Medela wholesale connection we can use to purchase them.
- 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) :
- Birthing From Within by Pam England
- The Birth Partner by Penny Simpkin
- Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
- 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)
Posted May 2010
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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