Midwives at WomanCare work in close collaboration with OB/GYNs and other specialists to ensure seamless, safe care. Even when a higher-risk pregnancy situation arises, patients maintain continuity ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The U.S. has four midwives for every 1,000 live births vs. 30 to 70 midwives in other high-income countries.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Midwives may have more time with patients to better communicate and lower the risk for intervention in pregnancy ...

Home births in Oregon surged in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — but insurance coverage for midwifery care is rare. When Mariana Warnock started having consistent contractions in her ninth month of ...

On Wednesday, families in Southeast Michigan will lose one of the few options they have for safe, caring, affordable birth center birth. On that day, the Alternative Birthing Center (ABC) at Ascension ...

As a midwife, I am an expert in the care of low-risk, healthy birthing people. But what happens when someone who has started in midwifery care begins to creep out of the “low-risk” realm and into a ...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) announced the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology will receive more ...

Midwives provide safe primary care for pregnant women who are at various levels of medical risk in British Columbia, Canada, new data suggest. In most cases, for midwifery clients, birth outcomes were ...

Normally a staple of the childhood toybox, new research has found that LEGO bricks can be an effective ice breaker between midwifery and medical students. A survey commissioned by King's College ...

After an absence of more than a decade, midwifery care is back at UNC Rex Healthcare in Raleigh. Certified nurse-midwife Cassandra Elder now is delivering babies and caring for their moms at the ...