OBJECTIVE To compare incidences of perinatal mortality and severe perinatal morbidity between low risk term pregnancies supervised in primary care by a midwife and high risk pregnancies supervised in secondary care by an obstetrician. DESIGN Prospective cohort study using aggregated data from a national perinatal register. SETTING Catchment area of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of...

Α Ι Μ : The objective of this study was to access the perceptions of mothers of newborns regarding their cooperation with the midwife and the obstetrician in the delivery room. M A T E R I A L M E T H O D : The sample consisted of 607 mothers living in Northern Greece. The Kuopio Instrument for Mothers (KIM) was used for the data collection. R E S U L T S : All the participants gave birth in a ...

Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray was a certificated midwife working in Paris from 1740. King Louis XV and his ministers were concerned with the declining birthrate in France, so Madame du Coudray was, according to the script beneath her portrait ‘pensioned and sent by the King to teach the practice of midwifery throughout the realm’. Between 1760 and 1783 du Coudray travelled most of...

In 2014, a fatal infection with Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 occurred in a neonate after a water birth. The death highlighted the need for infection control education, client awareness, and standardization of cleaning procedures in Texas midwife facilities.

BACKGROUND Continuous support by a midwife during childbirth has shown positive effects on the duration of active labour, use of pain relief and frequency of caesarean section (CS) in women without fear of childbirth (FOC). We have evaluated how continuous support by a specially assigned midwife during childbirth affects birth outcome and the subjective experience of women with severe FOC. ME...

BACKGROUND In 2015, 27.5% of births in England and Wales were to mothers born outside of the UK. Compared to their White British peers, minority ethnic and migrant women are at a significantly higher risk of maternal and perinatal mortality, along with lower maternity care satisfaction. Existing literature highlights the importance of midwife-woman relationships in care satisfaction and pregnan...