The 2016 WHO guideline on routine antenatal care (ANC) recommends several health systems interventions to improve quality of care and increase use of services including: Midwife-led continuity of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods Task shifting components of ANC, including promotion of health-related behaviors and distribution of nutrition supplements Recruitment ...

In America, there were a number of praiseworthy attempts to improve the position of the midwife in the early nineteenth century, and an increase in the number of European midwives accompanied the influx of immigrants after the 1880s. Yet the midwives' position was so insecure that they nearly died out as more and more women opted for physician deliveries in hospital. Only recently, since the 19...

BACKGROUND In contrast to other countries, Austria rarely offers alternative models to medical led-care. In an attempt to improve the facilities, a midwife-led care service was incorporated within the Department of Obstetrics and Fetomaternal Medicine. The aim of the present study was to analyze the maternal and neonatal outcomes of this approach. METHODS Over a 10-years period, a total of 21...

Louise Bourgeois was the first practicing midwife to write of her experience of childbirth and of women's problems. She did much to enhance the respect in which her craft was held. For 26 years she was midwife to the royal court.

BACKGROUND Embryo transfer (ET) in assisted reproduction treatments has traditionally been performed by gynecologists in the Nordic countries. As gynecologists often have a busy schedule, midwives and nurses have become increasingly important in performing the treatment, providing subject information, ultrasound monitoring and assistance at ET. As part of the continuous development of our IVF t...

Introduction: Knowledge of cultural diversity is important for nursing/midwifery care as these address ethnic and racial differences between providers and consumers of health care, thus, can strengthen and broaden the healthcare delivery system. In a typical nurse/midwife-patient/client encounter globally, there is interplay of three Cultural systems namely, culture of the nurse/the profession,...

This study is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of Cooperative Agreement Number HRN-A-00-98-00012-00 and In-house project 5800 53111. The contents are the responsibility of FRONTIERS and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. i SUMMARY Increas...

BACKGROUND Internationally, a typical model of maternity care is a medically led system with varying levels of midwifery input. New Zealand has a midwife-led model of care, and there are movements in other countries to adopt such a system. There is a paucity of systemic evaluation that formally investigates safety-related outcomes in relationship to midwife-led care within an entire maternity s...

BACKGROUND Medical staff's influence on patient outcomes has become a subject of interest. We evaluated experienced midwives and compared their performance concerning perineal lacerations (PL). METHODS In a retrospective cohort study, 1937 women with singleton pregnancies who had delivered spontaneously with a cephalic presentation by experienced midwives in the Medical University of Vienna f...

Larsson, B. 2017. Treatment for childbirth fear with a focus on midwife-led counselling. A national overview, women’s birth preferences and experiences of counselling. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1341. 77 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0003-0. Background: Many women experience childbirth fear to such an exte...