What is Midwifery Care?
Midwives are trained medical professionals who provide comprehensive care through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
In midwifery care, mothers, midwives, and families are partners in creating a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Midwives provide excellent clinical care and education with a focus on informed choice, honoring the pregnant person and family as the center of the process.
- Midwives are with birthing people and their families through the transitions of childbearing.
- Midwives provide individualized and respectful prenatal, birth, and postpartum care for healthy mothers and infants.
- When a woman or baby’s needs fall outside our scope of practice, midwives refer to other qualified practitioners.
- Midwifery care is grounded in the belief that pregnancy and childbirth are normal life processes.
- Midwives take the time to know their clients and provide personalized care that is responsive to the values and goals of each mother and family.
Midwives Model of Care©
The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes.
The Midwives Model of Care includes:
- Monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
- Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
- Minimizing technological interventions
- Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention
The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.
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