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NEW HAVEN, C onn. — John Collins, the first man in the
United States to become a certified mid-wife, says people
have trouble figuring out what to call him. “I get ‘mid
hubby’ and ‘nurse man,’ ” he says. (AP)
Male midwife
High biggest problem:
what do people call him?
NEW HAVEN (AP) — John Collins is a male midwife
who says his biggest problem is that people don’t know
what to call him.
“I get ‘mid-hubby’ and ‘nurse man.’ One day I could
hear one of my patients coming down the hallway asking,
‘Where is my? ... where’s? ... John?”’
The bearded Collins is the first man in the United States
to become a certified nurse-midwife.
Since he broke the ice four years ago, fewer than a
dozen men have followed him into the world of about 3,000
female midwives, so he expects to remain a bit of an
oddity.
Collins, 35, entered the Yale School of Nursing master’s
program in 1970 “ignorant of how much pioneering I’d be
doing.”
Today he sees himself as a small but important part of a
health-care revolution. He considers the small band of
men a “minority group” but that doesn’t mean a male
midwife can’t be successful, he said in an interview.
“When the patient first blinks and says, ‘you’re a
midwife?’ it actually gives us something to begin talking
about. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to have
someone give me a physical exam until I know him bet
ter,” he said.
Midwives who have had children may have a special
basis for their patient relationship, but Collins insists that
he does, too, because he “won’t be tempted to tell a patient
I did this or that differently when I was pregnant.”
Since the nurse-midwife tries to minister to the whole
family, not just the mother, being a man can be a plus.
“It really doesn’t matter whether it’s a man or woman
providing the care as long as they follow the principles of
nurse-midwifery,” he said.
After breaking away from the tradition of midwives
helping women give birth when no other aid was
available, today’s college-trained midwife is gaining
popularity among women with uncomplicated preg
nancies who want a closer relationship with their medical
adviser, he said.
“There are a lot of sick people,” he noted, and they take
much of the typical obstetrician’s time. “We’re geared to
health, not to illness.”
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Survived fall
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Mark Mongillo, of Southington,
who fell 3,600 feet from an airplane and lived to tell the
tale, says he goes to church now. He feels his surviving the
fall wasn’t just luck but that “somebody up there was by
my side.” Mongillo became entangled in the shrouds of his
parachute while skydiving in Florida and fell into a nearly
empty irrigation ditch in an orange grove. (AP)
Benefit dance
The Jaycees will hold a dance
Saturday night at the National Guard
Armory from 8 until 11:30 o’clock.
Admission will be $1.50 per person.
Music will be by the “Someplace Else”
and Gordon Solie will be special guest.
Prizes will be awarded. Proceeds will
go to the Jerry Lewis Muscular
Dystrophy Telethon.
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