Midwives at WomanCare work in close collaboration with OB/GYNs and other specialists to ensure seamless, safe care. Even when a higher-risk pregnancy situation arises, patients maintain continuity ...

Countless studies and extensive reporting over the last decade have laid bare a sad truth: The state of maternal health care in America is profoundly inadequate. That’s especially true here in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The U.S. has four midwives for every 1,000 live births vs. 30 to 70 midwives in other high-income countries.

The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute recently entered a partnership to help improve outcomes and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in New Jersey by advancing the practice of midwifery in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Midwives may have more time with patients to better communicate and lower the risk for intervention in pregnancy ...

Giving Tuesday is a global day of generosity, but here in Santa Barbara County, it’s a chance to make a personal, local difference. At Noozhawk, we believe in the power of community and the impact ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance to help countries adopt and expand midwifery models of care - where midwives serve as the main care provider for women and babies ...

In the early to mid 1970’s, the midwife was a radical concept that challenged the orthodoxy of hospital-controlled birth. The State of California had stopped issuing Midwife licenses in 1949, and only ...

It would be understandable if certified nurse midwife Rachel Blessington wanted to keep her head down in the busy work of delivering babies and caring for women. With options for prenatal and ...

Just as I sat down to write this, a woman died during childbirth at a hospital in Los Angeles The city where I also live and gave birth nine months ago. Her name was April Valentine. She was a Black ...

In the midwifery model, 6.7% of women had an unscheduled ED visit within the first 42 days postpartum compared with 8.4% of those in the traditional obstetrics model (adjusted relative risks [aRR] ...