Afro and Indigenous Latina midwives are experiencing a quiet revolution — one rooted in ancestral wisdom and the enduring ...

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 ...

Norwalk is now home to Stamford Health's first midwifery program, marking the next step in its expanding maternal health services. The new 2,400-square-foot clinic, featuring five exam rooms, lab ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” However, prior to both death or taxes, one must first be born. And throughout human history birthing women have been attended ...

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 ...

A new five-year ‘strategic vision’ for nursing and midwifery in Wales is expected to be launched next month. Deputy chief ...

Ouma Health, a national leader in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) telemedicine, today announced its acquisition of Sunny Day MFM and certain clinical assets of Boston MFM. The acquisition integrates ...