Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

The word 'midwife' dates back to Middle English, but the role of midwifery extends to modern day. The term midwife originally referred to a woman who was "with" another woman giving birth, but ...

Jennifer Crook is a trained and certified midwife living in Birmingham, Alabama, who has presided over about 200 home births. But to do so, she and her pregnant patients had to drive two hours across ...

Dana Albillo is doing something no one in St. Louis' underground home-birth network ever dared. She's advertising. Soon after the Missouri Supreme Court ended the state's 48-year prohibition on ...

Colleen Marotta, advance practice nurse and certified nurse midwife, attends an at-home birth pre-pandemic. Come Oct. 1, 2022, certified professional midwives can attend at home births. Marotta had to ...

Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played ...

Certified professional midwives will soon require a license to practice in Michigan under new administrative rules set to go into effect next month, following a nearly decade-long push from industry ...

Legislation passed in 2017 in South Dakota opened the door to licensing of a new classification of “professional midwives,” who can become certified to perform home births with far less training and ...