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 ...

Elly Yu reports on early childhood. From housing to health, she covers issues facing the youngest Angelenos and their families. It’s a Thursday at Cal State Fullerton when a group of midwifery ...

In 2015, Jill became a licensed certified professional midwife (CPM) — though practice privileges of CPMs vary by state Before being rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section after discovering ...

Lompoc Valley Medical Center has expanded its maternity services with the addition of Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) care, further enhancing comprehensive, ...

A mannequin that simulates childbirth will be used by university students training to become midwives. York St John University said it had become the first higher education site in the UK to use the ...

Midwifery care can improve health outcomes and lower costs. But this solution to the critical problems in our maternal healthcare system is thwarted by a lack of training opportunities for student ...

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.

Jennifer Crook is a trained and certified midwife living in Birmingham, Alabama, who has presided over about 200 home births. But to do so, she and her pregnant patients had to drive two hours across ...

When Ariela Schnyer was choosing where to get trained as a nurse-midwife, California stood out for an important reason: The state would allow clinicians like her to provide abortions. But three years ...

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 ...

A UNICEF-supported midwife training program empowers health workers with practical skills and information to keep mothers and babies alive. At a UNICEF-supported midwife training program in Dhamar ...