Some midwives tried to get out of being on call as they were "nervous" about a rise in women wanting to have babies away from ...

A midwife who attempted to help Cahill during her final stages of labor gave the heartbreaking details leading up to Cahill’s ...

Midwives have been around for centuries and, though their role in women's health has changed in many ways, the image that their work conjures up for many still happens at random home births. In ...

A state court case that challenged a Hawaii law restricting traditional midwives from assisting in pregnancies and births without state-issued licenses ended Wednesday after the state agreed to settle ...

For many women, a nurse midwife is the perfect choice for their pregnancy or gynecology care. A nurse midwife is a registered nurse who receives extra training from an accredited midwifery program and ...

Your first prenatal care visit takes place when you are 8–10 weeks pregnant. This initial visit typically takes 40 minutes. You will see either a midwife or women’s health nurse practitioner during ...

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 ...

Midwifery & medicine can absolutely mix. And families often find that the payoff — a provider who truly understands and ...

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Afro and Indigenous Latina midwives are experiencing a quiet revolution — one rooted in ancestral wisdom and the enduring ...

Last summer, as deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic were spiking, I was looking for a story about life when I came across a GoFundMe page where two Black midwives, Allegra Hill and Kimberly Durdin, were ...