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Midwife
A midwife (pl.: midwives) is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialisation known as midwifery.
The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; concentrating on being experts in what is normal and identifying conditions that need further evaluation. In most countries, midwives are recognised as skilled healthcare providers. Midwives are trained to recognise variations from the normal progress of labour and understand how to deal with deviations from normal. They may intervene in high risk situations such as breech births, twin births, using non-invasive techniques[citation needed]. For complications related to pregnancy and birth that are beyond the midwife's scope of practice, including surgical and instrumental deliveries, they refer their patients to physicians or surgeons. In many parts of the world, these professions work in tandem to provide care to childbearing women. In others, only the midwife is available to provide care, and in yet other countries, many women elect to use obstetricians primarily over midwives.
Many developing countries are investing money and training for midwives, sometimes by retraining those people already practicing as traditional birth attendants. Some primary care services are currently lacking, due to a shortage of funding for these resources.
According to the definition of the International Confederation of Midwives, which has also been adopted by the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics:
A midwife is a person who has successfully completed a midwifery education programme that is recognised in the country where it is located and that is based on the ICM Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice and the framework of the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education; who has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered or legally licensed to practice midwifery and use the title midwife; and who demonstrates competency in the practice of midwifery.
The word derives from Middle English mid, "with", and wif, "woman", and thus originally meant "with-woman", that is, a woman who is with another woman and assists her in giving birth. The term "male midwife" is common parlance when referring to males who work as midwives.
In English, the noun midwife is gendered, and in most countries, the corresponding noun and practice is historically used for women (sometimes banned for men), while in English, the verb midwifery is also applied to men (e.g. Havelock Ellis is said to have midwifed bigamist Howard Hinton's aka John Weldon's twins in 1883; historically, assistance was done by relatives, even only husbands, while male midwifery, excluding relatives, being common in some cultures, dates back to the mid 1900's; for Semelai people women also practised it up to 1980, while by 1992 some areas had only male midwives, and later most areas had only male midwives).
The older Semelai word for midwife, mudem, "itself provides insight into the ritual role a midwife is expected to play. Mudem also meant, and continues to mean, 'circumcisor'."
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Midwife
A midwife (pl.: midwives) is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialisation known as midwifery.
The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; concentrating on being experts in what is normal and identifying conditions that need further evaluation. In most countries, midwives are recognised as skilled healthcare providers. Midwives are trained to recognise variations from the normal progress of labour and understand how to deal with deviations from normal. They may intervene in high risk situations such as breech births, twin births, using non-invasive techniques[citation needed]. For complications related to pregnancy and birth that are beyond the midwife's scope of practice, including surgical and instrumental deliveries, they refer their patients to physicians or surgeons. In many parts of the world, these professions work in tandem to provide care to childbearing women. In others, only the midwife is available to provide care, and in yet other countries, many women elect to use obstetricians primarily over midwives.
Many developing countries are investing money and training for midwives, sometimes by retraining those people already practicing as traditional birth attendants. Some primary care services are currently lacking, due to a shortage of funding for these resources.
According to the definition of the International Confederation of Midwives, which has also been adopted by the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics:
A midwife is a person who has successfully completed a midwifery education programme that is recognised in the country where it is located and that is based on the ICM Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice and the framework of the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education; who has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered or legally licensed to practice midwifery and use the title midwife; and who demonstrates competency in the practice of midwifery.
The word derives from Middle English mid, "with", and wif, "woman", and thus originally meant "with-woman", that is, a woman who is with another woman and assists her in giving birth. The term "male midwife" is common parlance when referring to males who work as midwives.
In English, the noun midwife is gendered, and in most countries, the corresponding noun and practice is historically used for women (sometimes banned for men), while in English, the verb midwifery is also applied to men (e.g. Havelock Ellis is said to have midwifed bigamist Howard Hinton's aka John Weldon's twins in 1883; historically, assistance was done by relatives, even only husbands, while male midwifery, excluding relatives, being common in some cultures, dates back to the mid 1900's; for Semelai people women also practised it up to 1980, while by 1992 some areas had only male midwives, and later most areas had only male midwives).
The older Semelai word for midwife, mudem, "itself provides insight into the ritual role a midwife is expected to play. Mudem also meant, and continues to mean, 'circumcisor'."
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