National Midwifery Week: Health First Midwives Handle Babies, Women's Care with a Personal Touch
Few titles in medicine conjure more warmth and positive sentiment – and reveal more confusion – than midwife. The primary attendant for women in labor, midwives were historically apprenticed, not schooled, and by 1980, the rate of deliveries attended by a midwife had fallen to about 1 in 100 – but no longer.
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