A few generations ago, midwifery was a trained profession. Not so much anymore.
Not so, there are midwifery schools putting out excellent trained midwives. It might certainly be a smaller profession than a few generations ago, but it’s still there. And more experienced with modern methods to boot.
It seems to me that midwifery is coming back in some areas, and perhaps this is what the doctors are fearing. Our married children have both had children delivered by midwives.
You're joking, right? Nurse midwives today have a Master's degree and usually years of hands on labor and delivery experience. Your non-medical midwife has no professional education, just an apprenticeship with a similarly minded person. That's not training. It's suicide.
“A few generations ago, midwifery was a trained profession. Not so much anymore.”
On the contrary. In the past 30 years, many folks have become professional nurse midwives. My wife's nurse midwives were a practice of a half-dozen women, all with at least master's degrees in nurse midwifery, and a couple with Ph.D.s in same.
The degree of training and professionalism among nurse midwives actually has never been higher.
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