May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, a day to recognize and raise awareness about the midwifery profession. There is a growing demand for midwives in Virginia and across the United States. The ...

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ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

Jamaa Birth Village baby Markari Myton and family celebrate the grand opening of the Equal Access Midwifery Clinic. Joined by grandmother Stacey Myton, midwife and executive director Brittany Tru ...

Christine Kroce, a nurse at The Midwife Center, located in the Strip District, demonstrates one way a woman would use a birthing swing while maintaining an upright labor or delivery. After months of ...

Midwives have been around for centuries and, though their role in women's health has changed in many ways, the image that their work conjures up for many still happens at random home births. In ...

VOORHEES – Virtua Health has announced the recent accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC) earned by the Virtua Midwifery Birth and Wellness Center. The center has ...

Nagy, the tense journey with her contractions intensifying was a worthy trade-off for the care awaiting her in Florence, home ...

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 ...