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My name is Alice Sirmons, I was born and raised in
Amarillo, Texas. My husband and I moved to Woodward, OK in
1975, and on to Broken Arrow in 1990. We have five daughters,
all of which were born in hospitals, because I didn't know then that
I had a choice. My first four births were typical hospital
births, including episiotomies, delivery in stirrups, and separation
of mother and baby at birth. My last and smallest girl was
delivered by cesarean section after fourteen hours of labor.
She was a posterior breech, and even though I kept telling the
doctor something was different, he assumed that I would not have any
problems since she was my fifth child.
I have always felt that
women should have a choice as to where to give birth, and since I
had all daughters, I wanted them to be able to make the choice as to
where and how their own babies would be born. I have had the
privilege of catching ten of my twelve grandchildren.
Midwifery Training and
Education
I started reading about homebirth in 1973 and caught
my first baby Dec. 31, 1978. Since Woodward, Ok was some
distance from other towns, sometimes I would drive over 150 miles to
help with a birth. I did find a back-up doctor 30 miles from
home in a little town called Seiling, OK. I did three hospital
births there as part of my clinicals. I have attended 900 births to
date with a 6% transport rate.
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Midwifery
and Nutrition Conference - 1981
Intensive Midwifery Skills
Workshop - 1989
Nutrition,
Prenatal Care, Infant resuscitation,
Newborn exam, neonatal
jaundice
High risk, pre-term, at
term, and post-term
problems, postpartum problems
and genetics -
Skills Workshop, drawing blood, pap smears,
suturing - 1998
Conference: Lab work and prenatal care -
1990
Sids Workshop and Teenage Pregnancy Workshop - 1980
Midwifery Course:
Prenatal's,
anatomy, low income problems,
and nutrition -
2002
Understanding birth process and monitoring FHT's
with Dr. Michel
Odent - 1992
Senior Midwife Certificate OMA -1993
Pediatric/Prenatal Medicine Conference - 1994
Doula
Workshop - Secrets of Labor Support - 1993
Well
Woman Workshop and Homeopath Conference - 1995
Certified
Professional Midwife Certificate - 1996
Aromathery Workshop
- 1996
Postpartum Depression, Group B Strep, Sexual Abuse
-1996
Blood borne Pathogens - 2001
Qualified Evaluator
for NARM - 2002-2009
Venipunture and IV Therapy -
2006
Breast Feeding Education Workshop - 2007
NPR 2005
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Certifications
Certified
Professional Midwife CPM with NARM
Certified Senior Midwife
with OMA
Certified in NRP and
CPR
Organizations
Midwives Alliance of
North American MANA
North American Registry of Midwives
NARM
Oklahoma Midwives
Alliance Inc. OMA
Positions Served
OMA
President 2008
OMA Treasurer 1996-2001, 2004
OMA
Vice-President 1991
Qualifying Evaluator for NARM 1996
-2009
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My Apprentice
Aimee Reynolds is enrolled in "Midwife to
Be". She has been apprenticing with me for three years.
She volunteered at Hillcrest in L&D from 2003
-2005.
She is Doula Certified and acts as Montrice.
Certified in NRP & CPR
She is a past
ICAN Leader
She was instrumental in the proclamation on
March 14, 2005 making April Cesarean Awareness Month.
It
was signed by her and Governor Brad
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Client
Testimonials
Following a cesarean with our first child, we
experienced three wonderful homebirths with Alice. I highly
recommend
her.
---Jennifer
Alice is wonderful! She delivered both of my
children at our home, which is about 50 miles from her house.
I could not have asked for better care or a better birth
experience. I highly recommend her.
---Elizabeth
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