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 ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 1. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. It’s Spring of 1969, and brand new midwifery students are ...

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 ...

In the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

Since the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, I have been inundated by reporters seeking a reaction to Mississippi’s abortion ban while disregarding the State’s dismal record on birth ...

Staff at the North Shore Birth Center on the campus of Beverly Hospital say they've delivered their last baby. The center was the only stand-alone midwife-led birth center currently delivering babies ...

Midwives have been around since colonial times, when they would tend to the community as herbalists, nurses and more. While midwives provided essential services to birthing people, a heated debate ...

The Philadelphia Midwives Collective, which delivered about 70 babies last year, plans to open the city's only birth center ...