Man-midwives

Midwives for midwives. Protecting the sacred circle.

María Catalina lives in a small village called Áto, about an hour and a half walk from Antigua, a colonial city in the Guatemalan highlands. The region is surrounded by volcanoes, and is an agricultural center for the production of corn and coffee. Catalina looks much older than her 38 years, and is plagued by chronic health problems stemming from a life of poverty and hard physical labor. She ...

Midwives' Midwifery

pillow. Her countenance indicated exhaustion, and she did not wish to be disturbed ; preferring, as she said, death to any further interference. Her friends stated that labour pains set in four days before, and that the membranes broke and the waters were discharged thirty hours previous to my visit. The pains having been slight, and the labour having made no advance, midwives of repute were se...

Midwives for Midwives in Guatemala: Weaving Traditional and Professional Midwifery

Changes to midwives exemptions.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to safeguard the health and well being of the public. We do this by maintaining a register of nurses and midwives and by setting standards for education and practice. This includes setting standards for administration, dispensing and storage of medicines. Midwives may, in the course of their professional practice, supply and administer on their own...

Midwifery for Midwives

Wiggins, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p., d.p.h. Bailli&re, Tindall & Cox, London, 1904. Crown 8vo. Pp. XV & 249, 44 illustrations. Price 3/6. Mr. Denison Wiggins is the Assistant Superintendent of the Greenwich Infirmary, and he has written this small handbook with a view to preparing intending midwives for the requirements of the Examining Board authorized by the Midwives Act, 1902. We are glad to find hi...