You Might Want to Read This Before Appointing Jill Duggar as Your Midwife
Jill Duggar is suddenly facing a lot of heat for a midwifery mishap that happened two years ago.
Tiffany Nance, whose birth was attended by midwife Vanessa Giron and Jill (Giron's apprentice at the time), recently claimed that she doesn't think Duggar is qualified as a midwife. Why?
The Arkansas native stated that when she gave birth to her daughter, Jozzie, two years ago, it was Giron's negligence (she refused to call 911 despite Nance allegedly begging) that the mother claims resulted in her child being born with cerebral palsy.
Both Duggar and Giron held certified professional midwife (CPM) licenses in Arkansas, which can sometimes be confused with a certified nursing midwife (CNM). The latter demands rigorous education, while the former comes with uncomfortably relaxed requirements.
Though of course Jill is not at fault for Jozzie's condition, if she been training for her CNM licensure, she would have at least known better and called 911 to put Nance at ease.
Today, neither woman is listed as a licensed midwife with the state of Arkansas (Giron's was revoked after the state found her negligent in Jozzie's birth).
And while Duggar has stepped out of the midwife game completely while she tends to her little ones at home, Giron is apparently back in biz in Oklahoma.
[H/T She Knows]
