New Jersey’s dismally high maternal mortality rates could be improved if more midwives delivered babies and received reimbursement rates comparable to gynecologists and obstetricians, a report ...

Expanding access to nurse-midwifery services could improve maternal health outcomes by providing culturally sensitive, community-based care, particularly in underserved communities around the U.S.

J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005;50(1):3-7. It was not until the revitalization of midwifery programs as a nurse-midwifery specialty in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s that midwifery began to develop a ...

Midwives are trained professionals who help women to give birth and maintain good health before and after pregnancy. This centuries-old profession is expected to become more common in the near future, ...

Emily Engelhardt is a certified nurse midwife and the medical manager for Hope Clinic for Women. "Facilitating a productive labor and healthy birth by modeling to the husband how he could support his ...

To mark International Day of the Midwife as Médecins Sans Frontières, we’re shining a light on the role of midwives as ...