Essence

Black Maternal Health Week: What’s The Difference Between Midwives And Doulas?

It's Black Maternal Health Week. Here's everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. Unfortunately, according to the CDC, in 2022, the maternal mortality rate for Black women in ...
AllAfrica on MSN

UPNMG calls for action as nurse exodus hits health sector

The National President of the Union of Professional Nurses and Midwives, Ghana (UPNMG), Mr Maxwell Oduro Yeboah, has urged the government to take decisive steps to address the increasing migration of ...
Wired

Midwives Are an Overlooked Climate Solution

Climate leadership is failing, though not for want of ideas. Still, the loudest suggestions, like shifting to renewable energy and eating more sustainably, can overshadow another climate solution that ...
Vogue

Midwives Explain What a Home Birth Really Means

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique set of emotionally distressing challenges for pregnant women. From concerns about their health and that of their baby, to the prospect of having to go into ...
Essence

Why Midwives Matter—And What Most People Get Wrong About Them

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Here’s everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. MyQueen "Nurse Queen" Dickens, MSN, CNM, is on a mission to set the record straight about ...

Mums and babies ‘at risk in NHS hospitals because senior midwives clock off at 5pm’

MUMS and babies are at risk on NHS maternity wards because senior midwives clock off at five o’clock, top doctors warn. They ...
WebMD

Types of Midwives

A midwife is someone who cares for you and your baby before, during, and after pregnancy. They help tend to your physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and cultural needs so that you’re able to have ...
The Conversation

Midwives and the right of women to give birth the way they want to

Midwives play a crucial role in enabling women to make choices about how they give birth. The White Ribbon Alliance/Flickr Giving birth is a significant life event that should aim for a healthy baby ...

NS midwives 'excited' to use new scope of practice, but waiting on province to take advantage

Nova Scotia midwives are one step closer to being able to offer more health care to patients, but the health minister says ...
The Guardian

‘Medical colonialism’: midwives sue Hawaii over law regulating Native birth workers

Exclusive: Native Hawaiian midwives say new law criminalizes Indigenous birthing customs and will deal blow to maternal health Six midwives, including three midwifery students, and three patients sued ...
CNN

Midwives, doulas could benefit births – but not all women have access

Editor’s Note: The documentary series “Giving Birth in America” is produced by Every Mother Counts, a nonprofit organization that seeks to raise the profile and issues of maternal health in the United ...