Midwives play a crucial role in enabling women to make choices about how they give birth. The White Ribbon Alliance/Flickr Giving birth is a significant life event that should aim for a healthy baby ...

Despite the region’s rich history of reproductive care, birth options remain incredibly limited. A group of midwives in Kentucky want to change that. When Laura Browning was pregnant for the first ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will soon train nurses to specialize in midwifery with the first program of ...

Now a new study, a systematic look at what midwives can and can't do in the states where they practice, offers new evidence that empowering them could significantly boost maternal and infant health.

Nandi Hill rushed to Emily Rose’s home at the crack of dawn. The car was packed with Hill’s supplies: oxygen tank, hemorrhaging drugs, umbilical cord scissors, stethoscope and blood pressure cuffs, ...

A new lawsuit seeks to decriminalize the work of midwives banned from providing care amid a worsening maternal health crisis When Tamara Taitt moved to Georgia in 2023 to run the Atlanta Birth Center, ...

When their plans to buy a house in Greenwood fell through, Bailey and Clay Orander found themselves moving from the south side to Fishers. The one hitch was that Bailey, 26, was expecting the couple’s ...

Midwives provide a wide range of family-planning services, but not every expectant mom is a candidate to give birth with their assistance. By David Howard This story was originally published on May 6, ...

Yet the workforce continues to be not only small, but racially homogenous: More than 90% of midwives are white. “Depending on what you look at, there are somewhere between 7,000 to 15,000 midwives ...

MAY 5 is celebrated annually as International Day of the Midwife. This year, the day was celebrated under the theme ‘Midwives — a vital climate solution’. A common misconception is that midwives are ...

Across rural North Carolina, women drive an hour or more for routine prenatal care and they endure long commutes when it's time to give birth. Some midwives say that they could provide those women ...