Objective. To review the literature around what is considered to be a good midwife and in particular what women value in a midwife, in order to identify the gaps in the evidence for future research. Design. This paper reviews the research in the area of interest over the past 30 years. The literature search focused on the concept of good midwife using synonyms and antonyms. The inclusion criter...

Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician Janssen, Saxell, Page, Klein, Liston, & Lee, Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2009 "Interpretation: Planned home birth attended by a registered midwife was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death and reduced rates of obstetric interventions and o...

This study aimed to characterize midwives according to current concepts among health professionals and to identify the ideological premises underlying proposals for their training. Data from interviews with nine midwives, nurses, and physicians were interpreted using discourse analysis. The resulting empirical categories were "The Situation of Maternity Care in Brazil", "The Ideal (or Necessary...

BACKGROUND Earlier studies indicate that midwife-led birth settings are associated with modest benefits, including reduced medical interventions and increased maternal satisfaction. The generalizability of these studies to birth settings with low intervention rates, like those generally found in Norway, is not obvious. The aim of the present study was to compare intervention rates associated wi...

abstract background: natural delivery is the most painful event that women experience in their lifetime. that is why labor pain relief has long been as one of the most important issues in the field of midwifery. thus, the present study aims to explore the perception of primiparous mothers on comfortable resources for labor pain. materials and methods: in the present study, qualitative content a...

The first author of this paper, a Thai midwife, conducted a feminist action research project aimed at collaboratively developing a model for group-based antenatal education in Thailand. Should a midwife wear a uniform when facilitating midwife-led group-based antenatal education sessions in the hospital setting? This paper reports on a single example of reflection in and on midwifery practice t...

BACKGROUND The literature review reveals general information about a good midwife from a range of perspectives and what childbearing women generally value in a midwife, but there is a lack of information around mothers' perspectives of what makes a good midwife specifically during labour and birth, and even less in the context of different places of birth. AIM To conceptualise first-time moth...

BACKGROUND The literature review reveals general information about a good midwife from a range of perspectives and what childbearing women generally value in a midwife, but there is a lack of information around mothers’ perspectives of what makes a good midwife specifically during labour and birth, and even less in the context of different places of birth. AIM To conceptualise first-time mother...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of women in Canada who received care from a midwife during their prenatal period. METHODS The findings of this study were drawn from the Maternity Experiences Survey (MES), which was a cross-sectional survey that assessed the experiences of women who gave birth between November 2005 and May 2006. The main outcome variable f...