For many women, a nurse midwife is the perfect choice for their pregnancy or gynecology care. A nurse midwife is a registered nurse who receives extra training from an accredited midwifery program and ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wondered who really helps bring a baby into the world besides doctors, midwives and doulas are the unsung heroes every parent should know about. For centuries, midwives and doulas have ...

Your first prenatal care visit takes place when you are 8–10 weeks pregnant. This initial visit typically takes 40 minutes. You will see either a midwife or women’s health nurse practitioner during ...

Oct. 29—Midwives empower a family during the arrival of a baby, allowing the mother to give birth in the comfort of her own home, and the trip to a hospital during labor is avoided. For Hilary Goodner ...

Midwives are routinely "overlooked and ignored" despite saving millions of lives a year, the United Nations said on Wednesday ...

Giving birth in America is not safe enough. And when the person giving birth is Black, it is just plain dangerous. In 2021 the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 2.6 times the rate for white ...

Home births in Oregon surged in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — but insurance coverage for midwifery care is rare. When Mariana Warnock started having consistent contractions in her ninth month of ...

I became a midwife after working as a doula for 10 years. I came into the work with the knowledge and concern for the lack of safety that is espoused to Black women and birthing people that I ...

Last summer, as deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic were spiking, I was looking for a story about life when I came across a GoFundMe page where two Black midwives, Allegra Hill and Kimberly Durdin, were ...