For many women, a nurse midwife is the perfect choice for their pregnancy or gynecology care. A nurse midwife is a registered nurse who receives extra training from an accredited midwifery program and ...

Giving birth in America is not safe enough. And when the person giving birth is Black, it is just plain dangerous. In 2021 the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 2.6 times the rate for white ...

Midwives have helped women to deliver babies for centuries and they were present at most births until the early twentieth century. Today, more than 12% of all births, both vaginal and C-section, in ...

Each year, there are nearly 70,000 births in Massachusetts. Of those, approximately 17% were attended by a midwife. That's according to the latest census data from 2020, as reported by the Centers for ...

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 ...

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife. This year's theme is "one million more" — reflecting a shortage of midwives.