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Thanks to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar bringing their 19 children in the spotlight, we’ve gotten to watch the kids grow up over the years. And Jill Duggar has attained a serious following even though ...

Rachel Mealey: Families and health professionals are calling for better training around stillbirths and bereavement care. For midwife students, their formal education on bereavement care could be just ...

Midwifery training that’s closer to home for regional students will be an asset to recruiting and retaining locally trained midwives and continuing our midwifery services for women in our community.

All midwives deliver babies, but not all midwives are the same -- which has caused a heated debate in Illinois over their licensing, regulation, and what they call themselves. ``It's a very ...

A pioneer in the area is in the process of recreating herself. Pam Bradshaw, a Certified Nurse Midwife with a solo practice in Traverse City for the past 18 years, is closing her practice and taking a ...

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 ...