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Encyclopedia: Midwifery

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Midwifery is a health care profession where providers are experts in women's reproductive health. They give prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant, and provide postpartum care to the mother and her infant. Practitioners of midwifery are known as midwives, a term used in reference to both women and men . Midwives are autonomous practitioners who are specialists in normal pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum. They...


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What kind of advice do docs and midwives over there give about alcohol use in...
Someone just asked on answers US about whether a little glass would be okay. ...

Hi Im a midwife and we usually give out advice according to the latest research and advice by nice guidlines, a few months ago the advice was to abstain from...

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I live on a Military base... does anyone know if it is possible to have...

i guess that's a question for the base authorities, but good call going with a midwife. What's the rule about having visitors on base? For healthy women with normal pregnancies,...

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    . I've been researching since I had my DS in Feb '07 with the Hackettstown Midwives (who can't do VBAC's everything in the office (bloodwork, u/s); midwives really spend alot of time w/ me...

    Jun 18, 2008

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    with this program also, early next year.There is also Midwives College of Utah which... hi i'm looking into a distance midwifery school and i was wondering what everyones opinions...

    Dec 10, 2006

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    Salam Are there any midwives on the forum? just wanna ask some questions please JazakAllah wa alaikum aslaam ask away the non-midwives may know the answerwhats a midwife o nevermind...

    Apr 29, 2007

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