Midwives are specialists in low-risk pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, although they are trained to recognize and deal with deviations from the norm as well as certain high risk situations.

Midwives are trained to handle certain more difficult deliveries, including breech births, twin births and births where the baby is in a posterior position, using non-invasive techniques.

Midwives are mentioned in the Old Testament: Exodus, Chapter 1.

Midwives are practitioners in their own right in the United Kingdom, and take responsibility for the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care of women, up until 28 days after the birth, or as required thereafter.

Midwives are the lead health care professional attending the majority of births, whether at home or in a hospital ( although most births in the UK occur in a hospital ).

Midwives are at all times responsible for the woman for whom they are caring, to know when to refer complications to medical staff, to act as the woman's advocate, and to ensure the mother retains choice and control over her childbirth experience.

In BC Midwives are primary care providers for women in all stages of pregnancy, from prenatal phase to six weeks postpartum.

Core competencies and restricted activities are included in the BC Health Professions Act Midwives Regulation.

Midwives are called vroedvrouw ( knowledge woman, female midwives ), vroedmeester ( knowledge master, male midwives ), or verloskundige ( deliverance experts, general ) in Dutch.

Midwives are independent specialists in physiologic birth.

Midwives are generally organized as private practices, some of those are hospital-based.

Midwives in this society are similar to shamans, in that her calling is divine.

Midwives are usually trained to provide neonatal resuscitation, start intravenous solutions, and can administer oxytocin and other medications as needed to halt postpartum hemorrhaging.

Both the RCM ( Royal College of Midwives ) and the RCOG ( Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ) support home births where there are no expected complications.

Midwives are also called hilots.

Health Personnel-There are 9 personnel manning the Municipal Health Office, 1 Physician ( Municipal Health Officer ), 1 Public Health Nurse, 1 Medical Technologists, 4 Midwives and 2 Sanitary Inspectors.

Midwives are able to follow individual women across the interface between community and acute health services and to provide care to each woman from early in her pregnancy until the baby is 4-6 weeks of age.

A direct-entry midwife is trained to provide the Midwives Model of Care to healthy women and newborns throughout the childbearing cycle primarily in out-of-hospital settings.

The Hong Kong Nurses and Midwives Association was founded in 1940 with the objectives of maintaining the standard of nursing care, promoting unity among nurse / midwife colleagues and protecting the interest of the nurses and midwives.

Female doctors, Midwives, and wet nurses have all been mentioned in literature of the time period.

She resigned her position in October 1911 to study midwifery at Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital, London where Taylor received a diploma from the Central Midwives Board of England and Wales.

A Certified Professional Midwife ( CPM ) is a knowledgeable, skilled and professional independent midwifery practitioner who has met the standards for certification set by the North American Registry of Midwives ( NARM ) and is qualified to provide the midwives model of care.

Created in 1987 by the Midwives Alliance of North America, NARM is committed to identifying standards and practices that reflect the excellence and diversity of the independent midwifery community in order to set the standard for North American midwifery.

Midwives in Canada come from a variety of backgrounds including: Aboriginal, post nursing certification, direct-entry and " lay " or traditional midwifery.

The BC government announced on March 16, 1995 the approval of regulations governing midwifery and establishing the College of Midwives of BC.

In 1999, the School of Nursing became the only school in Maryland to offer a midwifery program, pre-accredited by the American College of Nurse Midwives.

There was also a marked improvement in maternal mortality, mainly due to the discovery of antibiotics able to counteract septicaemia, but also because a full-time, salaried midwifery service was created under the Midwives Act of 1936.

In 1929 Young opened a school, the North China School of Midwives, for the study in midwifery.

The Australian College of Midwives ( ACM ) is the peak professional organisation representing midwives and midwifery policy in Australia.

Also, Andrew Lingen-Stallard ( born 1962 ) MSc, RM, RN FRSA, Consultant Midwife for The London Ambulance Service, elected member of council of the Royal College of Midwives ( 2003 – 2007 ) and former midwifery advisor, Nursing and Midwifery Council ( NMC 2006-2008 ).

In 1996, the Health Professional Council released a draft of Bylaws for the College of Midwives of BC which received Cabinet approval on April 13, 1997.

One of them is the Tanzanian Midwives Association, which works to prevent fistula by improving clinical health care for women and delaying early marriages and childbearing years, as well as help the local communities advocate the rights of females.

The Ministry of Health Act 1919 abolished the Local Government Board, and all of its powers and duties were transferred to the new ministry, which also combined the duties of the Insurance Commissioners, the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, the medical duties of the Board of Education, the duties of the Privy Council under the Midwives Acts and the powers of the Home Secretary in relation to the Children Act 1908.

* Sweden: Midwives were allowed to use surgical instruments, which were unique in Europe at the time and gave them surgical status.

In 2003, she was appointed Executive Officer of the Australian College of Midwives, a position which she held from 2002 to 2010.

Their descendents included Sir Henry Lingen, Sir Ralph Robert Wheeler Lingen the 1st Baron Lingen of Lingen, the Lingen's of Stoke Edith, Andrew Lingen-Stallard Esq, a former Council member of Royal College of Midwives and the present senior line of the Burton-Lingen's of Longnor Hall near Shrewsbury, in which any co rights of the former Principality of Powys now rest.

Midwives who attend home births will be excluded from the indemnity requirement for two years while the government seeks to make affordable insurance available.

For two years ( around 1956-58 ) in the Hong Kong Nurses and Midwives Association, Rebecca Chan Chung 鍾陳可慰, who served for many years as a member of its executive committee and for three years as its President, developed and taught a course in English for Nursing.

Turmion Kätilöt ( Literally ” Midwives of Ruin " or ” Midwives of Perdition ”) is a Finnish industrial metal band founded in 2003 by MC Raaka Pee and DJ Vastapallo, who until the latter's departure, were the only studio lineup.

Midwives generally support and encourage natural childbirth in all practice settings.

A midwife must be registered with the College of Midwives of BC in order to practice.

* Danu Midwives, a practice of community midwives in Christchurch, New Zealand