A midwife was stunned to discover she is training a new student nurse who she delivered at the hospital where they now work 20 years ago. Tracy Jones has delivered hundreds of babies over the last ...

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All midwives deliver babies, but not all midwives are the same -- which has caused a heated debate in Illinois over their licensing, regulation, and what they call themselves. ``It's a very ...

The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 12 Episode 2. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. Do you know where you belong? Have you ever been in a ...

Jerker Liljestrand is Senior Program Officer of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Four babies are born each second of every day. By the time you finish ...

Midwifery care can improve health outcomes and lower costs. But this solution to the critical problems in our maternal healthcare system is thwarted by a lack of training opportunities for student ...

Legislation passed in 2017 in South Dakota opened the door to licensing of a new classification of “professional midwives,” who can become certified to perform home births with far less training and ...

A new cohort of 113 midwives graduated yesterday from the Ministry of Health’s Health Sciences Education (HSE) Midwifery Training Programme, marking a significant milestone in strengthening maternal ...

A UNICEF-supported midwife training program empowers health workers with practical skills and information to keep mothers and babies alive. At a UNICEF-supported midwife training program in Dhamar ...