It’s a labor of love. Midwives have been caring for women for centuries — the roots of this work can be traced to the beginning of humanity. About 14,000 midwives now practice in the US. These ...

When director Elaine Epstein and her wife decided to have their first child, the entire process felt wrong. “We went into it blindly, we followed all the prescribed medical routes for a gay couple to ...

Midwifery is often a cheaper and safer alternative for some childbirths, yet the state’s policies require midwives to jump through increasingly difficult hoops to practice. A student midwife taking a ...

For millennia and across cultures, midwives provided care to women in labor and throughout their reproductive years with a universal emphasis on providing compassionate treatment. Today, however, ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 1. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. It’s Spring of 1969, and brand new midwifery students are ...

It’s 5 a.m. at Mother Health International (MHI), a birth center in Northern Uganda affiliated with Yale University , when the call comes in from a local midwife about 12 miles away. A woman in her ...

Expanding access to nurse-midwifery services could improve maternal health outcomes by providing culturally sensitive, community-based care, particularly in underserved communities around the U.S.