S ome midwives tried to get out of being on call as they were "nervous" about a rise in women wanting to have babies away from hospital, an inquest for a mother who died after a home birth has found.

You don’t even need to be pregnant to see a midwife, a common misconception. We also do fertility counseling, perform pap smears, conduct annual exams, provide contraception services and even ...

Getty Israel is a population health expert, author, writer, mother and CEO of Sisters in Birth midwifery clinic located in Jackson, Mississippi. Since the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, ...

Christine Kroce, a nurse at The Midwife Center, located in the Strip District, demonstrates one way a woman would use a birthing swing while maintaining an upright labor or delivery. After months of ...

VOORHEES – Virtua Health has announced the recent accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC) earned by the Virtua Midwifery Birth and Wellness Center. The center has ...

ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

Allegra Hill knew she wanted to be a midwife long before she knew exactly what the term meant. Her mother had delivered her with the help of a midwife, and “every birthday I would hear my birth story ...

Light jazz plays in the background of Shreveport Birth Center as fully masked Jaime Wessler, 40, palpates on patient Nancy Herrington’s belly. Herrington is 32-weeks pregnant with her third child.

Fourth-generation midwife Racha Tahani Lawler-Queen has made history in Virginia by opening the state’s first Black-owned birthing center. The Gather Grounded Midwifery facility is a safe and inviting ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...