Talk:Midwifery
The entry reads:
- Midwives provide care and support to expecting mothers. They deal with normal births, and are trained only to recognize what is abnormal. If something abnormal is discovered, the patient is sent to an OB/GYN, as midwives are not trained surgeons. They do receive medical training as they are RN's.
What does OB/GYN and RN mean? and is midwifery the proper heading for this entry? --css
- OB/GYN=obstetrics/gynecology / obstetrician / gynecologist
Seems to describe modern midwifery in the U.S. It needs to be expanded to historic and worldwide. --rmhermen
Whats a "non-MD"? I know, you mean someone other than a medical doctor / physician--so why not just say "other than doctors"? "MD" is rather obscure, and is an Americianism. (Australian doctors don't have an MD, they generally have an MBBS). -- SJK
This is not NPOV. This is propaganda:
- All midwives believe that birth is a natural process. In general, midwives perform births without painkillers, epidurals, or labor-inducing drugs. While some do use drugs in emergency situations to stop hemorrhaging, others use herbs and massage in place of all drugs. Midwives were early adopters of the water birth method and birthing chairs. In general, midwives cut down on postnatal complications by letting births proceed naturally, so jaundice commonly caused by labor-inducing drugs (needed because epidurals inhibit contractions), and requiring additional hospital stays is much less common with midwife assisted births than births done with an obstetrician. Postnatal infections are also much less common in mid-wife assisted home births than in hospital births. In hospital births with nurse midwives, statistics show bigger and healthier babies, less use of pain medications, less complications.
-- SJK