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Midwives play a crucial role in the birthing process, providing guidance and care throughout pregnancies and after childbirth. Aspiring midwives may take various pathways toward this career in terms ...

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 ...

Yet the workforce continues to be not only small, but racially homogenous: More than 90% of midwives are white. “Depending on what you look at, there are somewhere between 7,000 to 15,000 midwives ...

Huston-Tillotson University is starting a new program to train and increase the number of doulas, certified midwives and lactation consultants in Central Texas. With a $763,500 one-year grant from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The College of Nursing at the University of Arizona recently launched the state's only nurse-midwife program. The University of ...