Midwife
A midwife is a health professional who assists another woman through labor, delivery of a baby, and the time after birth.[3] Mostly they are women. A male midwife is called an accoucher or accoucheur. They work with obstetricians.
 A woman is getting an examination from a sonographer, a machine that uses waves to make an image of the woman's child's baby's body | |
| Occupation | |
|---|---|
| Names | Midwife[1] |
Occupation type | Professional |
Activity sectors | Midwifery, obstetrics, newborn care, women's health, reproductive health |
| Specialty | |
| Description | |
| Competencies | Knowledge, professional behaviour and specific skills in family planning, pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum period, newborn care, women's health, reproductive health, and social, epidemiologic and cultural context of midwifery[2] |
Education required |
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Fields of employment | hospitals, clinics, health units, maternity units, birth centers, private practices, home births, community, etc |
Related jobs | obstetrician, gynecologist, pediatrician |
Midwife Media
The 112 countries containing member associations of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) in 2017
Two French midwives (sages-femmes)
Tanzanian midwife weighing an infant and giving advice to the mother
US Navy midwife checks on a woman
A male midwife in Oslo, Norway
Pharaoh and the Midwives, James Tissot c. 1900
References
- ↑ International Definition of the MidwifeInternational Confederation of Midwives. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery PracticeInternational Confederation of Midwives (ICM). Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ↑ Hurley, Judith. What Is a Midwife? (in en). WebMD. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
