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Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), in addition to the sexual and reproductive health of women throughout their lives.
- Midwives in the United States
Midwives in the United States assist childbearing women...
- Midwife
A midwife (pl.: midwives) is a health professional who cares...
- Midwives in the United States
The history of midwifery looks different around the world. Its path in the United States has followed many twists and turns. In the early parts of the 19th century, midwifery was the most customary practice for pregnancy care and childbirth.
Midwifery, care of women in pregnancy, childbirth (parturition), and the postpartum period that often also includes care of the newborn. Midwifery is as old as childbearing. Indeed, midwives historically were women who were mothers themselves and who became midwives when they attended the births of.
Midwives are specialists in the normal processes of pregnancy, birth and the post partum period. Midwives manage many common obstetric complications and work in collaboration with Obstetricians to provide safe care for women.
May 30, 2012 · Midwifery began a slow rebirth in the United States in the form of nurse-midwifery, when the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) was founded in a poor, rural county in Kentucky in 1925. FNS was founded by Mary Breckinridge, who worked as a public health nurse for the Red Cross in France at the end of World War I.
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