Our 2025 Statistics
Here are our complete statistics for 2025! Contact us with any questions and talk to your midwife at your next appointment about how you can prevent complications and interventions. We love all of you! -the team at North Texas Midwifery
North Texas Midwifery
Practice Statistics
2025
Total Clients: 36
Total Term Births: 32
Total Births Attended by Bethany Stricker: 29
Total Birth Attended by Rebecca Thorp as Primary Midwife with NTXM: 1
Total NTXM Clients attended only by hospital personel: 3
Spontaneous Miscarriage in 1st Trimester: 3 with 0 requiring D&C. Remaining managed spontaneously or with natural remedies.
Second trimester loss cause unknown: 1
Stillbirth/Fetal Demise: 0
Place of Birth in viable pregnancies (second or third trimester):
Planned community births:
Home: 28
Birth Center: 1
Hospital: 5
Home, or birth center, transport resulting in hospital vaginal birth: 3
With Epidural: 3
With Forceps: 1
With Vaccum: 0
Home, or birth center, transport resulting in hospital cesarean birth: 1
Planned cesarean birth for breech: 1
Total Maternal Transport Rate from Home or Birth Center to Hospital: 4 or 12.5%
Reasons for Maternal Transport in Pregnancy:
Premature Labor before 37 weeks: 1
Pregnancy Induced Hypertension: 0
Pre-eclampsia: 1
Breech presentation: 1
Reasons for Maternal Transport in Labor:
Prolonged Labor: 3
Reasons for Maternal Transport in the Immediate Postpartum:
Retained Placenta: 1
Third degree laceration: 1
Cesarean Section Rate: 2 or 6.25% (1 for FTP/Large Baby, 1 for breech presentation)
Total Newborn Transport: 4 or 12.5%
Reasons for Transport:
Respiratory distress likely from preterm infant: 1
Failed pulse ox screening at 24 hr postpartum visit: 1
Cleft lip and palate discovered on immediate postpartum newborn exam: 1
Post resuscitation care after should dystocia 1
Shortest gestation: 34
Longest gestation: 42.2
Longest Labor: 72 hours
Shortest Labor: 30 minutes
Longest pushing: 5 hours
Shortest pushing: 2 minutes
Recorded Maternal Birth positions:
Standing: 3
Hands & Knees: 7
Squat: 1
Birth Stool: 1
Supine: 6
Semi-reclining: 7
Kneeling: 2
Running Start/Lunge: 1
Side-lying: 2
Nuchal Cord: 10
Double Nuchal Cord: 0
Triple nuchal cord: 1
Nuchal Hand: 2
Double nuchal hand: 0
Water Births: 10
Newborn Birth Positions:
Surprise Breech: 0
Planned Breech: 1
Cephalic: 32
Military presentation: 1
Direct OP: 2
APGAR Score Less than 7 at 5 minutes: 1
Documented assessments of genitalia after birth:
Intact Perineum and Vulva: 8
1st Degree Lacerations: 10
2nd Degree Lacerations: 6 (number sutured: 3)
3rd and 4th Degree Lacerations: 1
Labial Lacerations: 2
Episiotomy for Fetal Distress: 0
Mother declined examination to assess for lacerations: 1
Smallest baby: 3lbs 11oz (born vaginally preterm at hospital)
Biggest baby (born vaginally at home): 10lbs 6oz
Complication rate at planned home, or birth center, birth:
Fetal Distress: 0
Cord prolapse: 0
Shoulder Dystocia: 3
Neonatal Resuscitation: 3
Cord avulsion: 0
Postpartum Hemorrhage: 6
