Thanks to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar bringing their 19 children in the spotlight, we’ve gotten to watch the kids grow up over the years. And Jill Duggar has attained a serious following even though ...

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A midwife was stunned to discover she is training a new student nurse who she delivered at the hospital where they now work 20 years ago. Tracy Jones has delivered hundreds of babies over the last ...

More and more pregnant women in the U.S. are choosing to give birth with a midwife's guidance - something that's more commonplace in the rest of the world. Health Reporter Erin Billups takes a look at ...

All midwives deliver babies, but not all midwives are the same -- which has caused a heated debate in Illinois over their licensing, regulation, and what they call themselves. ``It's a very ...

Rachel Mealey: Families and health professionals are calling for better training around stillbirths and bereavement care. For midwife students, their formal education on bereavement care could be just ...

A growing number of student midwives are being blocked from graduating over a lack of adequate training. The Nursing and ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 12 Episode 2. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. Do you know where you belong? Have you ever been in a ...

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 ...