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Miracles are just part of the job for midwives

 
By Jennifer Palmer | Published: June 8, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Whenever Margarett Scott makes plans in her life, she always adds: "Unless I'm at a birth.”

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CAREER SPOTLIGHT

Certified professional midwife
•Education: 1,350 clinical hours plus an eight-hour exam for national certification

•Salary: $66,000 on average in Oklahoma

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The unpredictability of birth means Scott, a certified professional midwife, is basically on-call all day, every day. She has missed holidays and birthdays, and worked 40-plus hour shifts.

But for her, being a midwife is more than a job — it's a calling.

"Not everybody gets to go to work and see a miracle happen,” she said.

Scott runs Heaven Sent Birth in northwest Oklahoma City with another midwife, Anne Coffee. The clinic provides prenatal care, labor and delivery assistance, and postpartum care for women.

Most of their clients choose to have a home birth, but they also have the option of birthing in the clinic.

Women in the metro wanting an out-of-hospital birth have few options. Besides Heaven Sent Birth, there is a clinic in Norman that provides midwifery care, and others are scattered across the state.

The OU Medical Center has a group of certified nurse midwives that provide prenatal care and labor assistance in the hospital.

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