If you or your partner were scheduled to give birth soon, would you have a preference for who delivered your baby: a midwife or a doctor? A new study of maternity care facilities in Lithuania suggests ...

A new study shows that women with low-risk pregnancies who were cared for by a midwife left the hospital with fewer complications and interventions than women who had an obstetrician deliver their ...

The most effective ways of enhancing midwife wellbeing have been identified in a study, researchers have said. University of Bath (UOB) researchers have published a midwife-focused stress audit and a ...

There’s a new study from the Cochrane Collection about midwife-led care for pregnant women in the United Kingdom. Researchers looked at 13 different studies of more than 13,000 pregnant women with ...

About 4,700 women in B.C. each year choose midwives for their taxpayer-funded pregnancy and childbirth care. Since there are about 40,000 babies born in this province each year, it’s obviously a small ...

Cathy Gordon of Shawnee, far right, gives her daughter-in-law, Emma Gordon, a look at her unborn baby via a sonogram as Emma’s husband, Matt Gordon, and their daughter, Hadley Gordon, gleefully look ...

There is an acute shortage of midwives in health facilities across the country with a total of only 3233 midwives against the required 23 637, a recent study by White Ribbon Alliance for safe ...

The average cost of maternity care for a woman in a midwife-led unit is €182 less than in a consultant-led unit, according to new research conducted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery and School ...

A bill that would give women what some say is their right to choose where and how they can give birth has been incubating in the state’s General Assembly for eight years. But hopes are running high ...

PORTSMOUTH – A recent study, published in PLOS One, “offers new evidence that empowering midwives could significantly boost maternal and infant health. The study revealed that states that have done ...

A recent study by White Ribbon Alliance for safe motherhood has discovered an acute shortage of midwives in health facilities across the country with a total of only 3233 midwives. Midwives not ...