A midwife was stunned to discover she is training a new student nurse who she delivered at the hospital where they now work 20 years ago. Tracy Jones has delivered hundreds of babies over the last ...

Alvarado, who is a nurse midwife, will take her childbirth training to any rural hospital that’s open to it or that reaches ...

More and more pregnant women in the U.S. are choosing to give birth with a midwife's guidance - something that's more commonplace in the rest of the world. Health Reporter Erin Billups takes a look at ...

A.P.'s maternal healthcare policy, recognised internationally, promotes natural deliveries through a collaborative midwifery training programme with UNICEF.

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The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

A growing number of student midwives are being blocked from graduating over a lack of adequate training. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has been forced to intervene ahead of graduations and ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 12 Episode 2. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. Do you know where you belong? Have you ever been in a ...

A pioneer in the area is in the process of recreating herself. Pam Bradshaw, a Certified Nurse Midwife with a solo practice in Traverse City for the past 18 years, is closing her practice and taking a ...

A midwife retiring after 52 years in the NHS said it had been "major privilege" to deliver more than 3,000 babies. Diane Hele, 69, started out as a trainee nurse at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St ...

Legislation passed in 2017 in South Dakota opened the door to licensing of a new classification of “professional midwives,” who can become certified to perform home births with far less training and ...