Tag: midwives
Childbirth crisis – too few midwives this summer: “Doesn’t feel good”
Some evenings and nights a midwife is absent. You then work two instead of three, which midwife Sara Blanc says would be needed. – I don’t think it feels good.…
7 useful tips from midwives on what to avoid doing to have a better experience during childbirth
News Published on 04/11/2024 at 6:15 p.m. Updated 04/11/2024 at 6:15 p.m. Reading 2 min. When it comes to childbirth, the midwife is surely the best person to get advice…
Instrumental abortions: midwives will be able to perform them more easily
News Published on 03/08/2024 at 4:50 p.m. Updated 03/08/2024 at 4:50 p.m. Reading 2 min. To overcome the difficulties of access to abortion in certain territories, midwives have been authorized…
“Baby lotus”, this practice praised by many doulas deemed dangerous by the Order of Midwives
News Published on 02/26/2024 at 4:11 p.m. Updated 02/26/2024 at 4:11 p.m. Reading 2 min. Do you know about “lotus babies”? This practice encouraged by doulas – a profession not…
The practice of surgical abortion open to midwives in hospitals
Surgical abortion can now be performed by volunteer midwives in hospitals. This new skill was tested for a little over a year in 26 pilot establishments. But an article in…
Gynecological follow-up, contraception, IVG… the skills of midwives are still little known
News Published on 12/23/2023 at 6:30 a.m. Updated 12/23/2023 at 6:30 a.m. Reading 3 min. No, midwives are not just there for childbirth. They can also take care of gynecological…
Midwives soon authorized to perform instrumental abortion in hospitals
News Published on 13/12/2023 at 2:45 p.m. Updated 13/12/2023 at 2:45 p.m. Reading 2 min. This Thursday, a new decree should authorize midwives to practice instrumental abortion in health establishments.…
Taliban bans birth control pills – midwives are threatened
By: Mia Holmberg Karlsson/TT Published: Less than 30 min ago full screen A mother and her malnourished child at a UN-run hospital in Kabul in January. Since the Taliban took…
Midwives raise the alarm about unreasonable working conditions
The popular model in maternity care, Caseload Midwifery, which assumes that every woman should have the same midwife throughout the entire care chain, has existed at Karolinska in Huddinge in…
Instrumental abortions can be performed by midwives in 18 test establishments
News Published on 07/11/2022 at 7:05 p.m. Updated 07/11/2022 at 7:05 p.m. Reading 1 min. As part of the law aimed at strengthening access to abortion, an experiment now allows…