@movemetoo I am not sure about Shoot the Turkey.
I can see a legal name change in this kid’s future.
Spurgeon, Quincy - which one is it?! Really, they are not even close! I don’t get that…wonder if they had second thoughts.
Quincy was what they called the bump.
I’m kind of partial to “normal” names myself.
Naming the bump is… creepy.
Oh come on – didn’t some of us and our DHs give cutesy little names to the growing baby??
Poor kid growing up with that name. That simply is cruel.
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(For low-risk pregnancies, home birth is as safe or safer than hospital birth. (That’s if you have a competent midwife, which I don’t think the Duggars have.) I have lots of friends who had their babies at home. I planned to have my son at home, but in the end the midwives decided he needed to be induced in a hospital.
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It is my understanding that none of the Duggar women are Certified Nurse Midwives. They are CPM which requires no formal education…it’s a certificate training program with requirements for amount of births to attend, exams to perform, etc. It is a far far cry from the BSN and MSN required to be a Certified Nurse Midwife. I have seen the stats about home births and safety but I think those stats are only for Certified Nurse Midwives, right? (I haven’t looked at the research recently.)
My name when I was a “bump” was Oscar.
There are lots of things associated with pregnancy that I find really creepy… naming the bump isn’t one of them (to me).
@carachel2 - here are some stats from the CDC. Most planned home birth attendants are direct entry or certified professional midwives. I find that surprising, since so many states do not have a licensing program in place for those types of midwives. But, I think part of being a CNM and getting your MSN degree is accepting the standards of typical American medical practice, which generally frowns on home birth.
My daughter went to public school in NYC with an extremely diverse group of kids. I must say that when someone tells her her/his name, she accepts it for what it is, whatever that may be. I never bother to read weird baby name threads because I think that’s a very healthy approach.
Plenty to complain about the Duggars, but the only thing I deign to complain aboout the naming of this baby is that it is, as with all things Duggar, under the microscope of celebrity.
While I can’t say that I did it, I don’t know if naming the “bump” is creepy - but, more than likely the name you’re going to call it is a “pet name” - something cutesie or a private joke kind of thing. Not the name someone is going to live a lifetime with!!!
@greenwitch …agreed! I know a few CNM and all of them are either affiliated with a hospital or an accredited birthing center. None of them go into homes.
The midwife who would have done my home birth was a CNM.
@“Cardinal Fang” …that’s awesome! Most of the ones I know work with a birthing center or a local hospital. But there are some who do home births.
I’ve still not been able to find out why the Duggars insist on home births with “midwives.” Do they shun other types of conventional medicine? Anybody?
They go tp the dentist, for ultrasounds, consulted with a fertility doc, some were part of the local rescue squad. And certainly leaned on medical science to save Josie. I don’t know if there is some specific reason behind the home births. But with a mother who made it through so many I can imagine it seems like a fine option to them.
I’m wondering if perhaps it’s a way to limit the intimate male contact they might inevitably receive in a hospital setting.
I’m thinking the home births are to save money. They are all self-employed, right? So I’m thinking they are not covered to the hilt with insurance.