All midwives deliver babies, but not all midwives are the same -- which has caused a heated debate in Illinois over their licensing, regulation, and what they call themselves. ``It's a very ...

In 2015, Jill became a licensed certified professional midwife (CPM) — though practice privileges of CPMs vary by state Before being rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section after discovering ...

Confident and unafraid — not many mothers would describe their feelings during childbirth with these words, but they are the words Charissa Peterson uses to describe giving birth to her youngest ...

A midwife was stunned to discover she is training a new student nurse who she delivered at the hospital where they now work 20 years ago. Tracy Jones has delivered hundreds of babies over the last ...

It’s as realistic a birthing experience as any nursing student can hope for – aside from attending an actual, live birth of course. In the Nursing Simulation Center of Cal State Fullerton’s School of ...

The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

Thanks to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar bringing their 19 children in the spotlight, we’ve gotten to watch the kids grow up over the years. And Jill Duggar has attained a serious following even though ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing's planned nurse-midwifery program, the first of its kind in Arkansas, has been preaccredited ahead of its fall 2026 launch, officials ...

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Yet the workforce continues to be not only small, but racially homogenous: More than 90% of midwives are white. “Depending on what you look at, there are somewhere between 7,000 to 15,000 midwives ...

DeShaun Desrosiers wishes she had used a doula for the birth of her first child roughly nine years ago, when doctors and nurses at an El Paso-area hospital ignored and mistreated her. She said her ...

A new maternal health initiative is coming to Alabama to establish a community-driven effort that gets at the root of some of the issues plaguing the state. The Alabama Birth Equity Initiative is a ...