The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

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When Cal State Fullerton assistant nursing professor Angela Sojobi was completing her education, she was the only black midwife student in her program. The lack of peers that looked like her brought ...

Ohio State’s nurse-midwifery program is delivering a growing profession in central Ohio, providing women and expectant mothers more options in health care. Certified nurse-midwives are licensed health ...

Jerker Liljestrand is Senior Program Officer of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Four babies are born each second of every day. By the time you finish ...

Legislation passed in 2017 in South Dakota opened the door to licensing of a new classification of “professional midwives,” who can become certified to perform home births with far less training and ...

From supporting the use of birth control — something so scandalous that women would sneak into the contraceptive clinic to get access to it — to the formation of an advisory center for unwed mothers, ...