What are the duties of a midwife?

Answer 1

The role of a midwife goes much further than delivering babies. Although the birth itself is at the heart of the process, midwives also provide support to women, babies, partners and families from conception right through to the first phase of post-natal care. A midwife is the main form of contact to a mother and baby.

The role of a Midwife

Midwives have the lead professional role and are present at over 75% of the births in the UK. They have an important role in making decisions about appropriate care in pregnancy, labour and after the birth and are thus in a very privileged position. They make a positive contribution to the health and well being of the mother and the unborn child and is therefore a very highly skilled profession.

Unlike other healthcare professions, midwives are responsible for a client-group, who are on the whole healthy and free from disease or injury. A further difference is the fact that midwives deliver continuous care over several months and are therefore able to develop more effective relationships with their client-group.

Midwives are caring and understanding people who need to have a sensitive nature and are willing and able to look after women from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds. Good communication skills are essential in this career as is the need to be flexible and work with different people.

Each day a midwife may:

-Consult a mother to be.

-Work around the hospital.

-Keep an eye on new born babies and mothers.

-Go out on call to mothers at home.

-Assist in the delivery of a baby.

-work with social workers to know what the mother needs.

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-Check up on mothers to be, seeing if they are healthy and do health checks (e.g., urine samples, blood samples and exercise programs.)

-They do these tests to see if there is any infections and to see if the mother is rhesus negative because if they are they will have to keep having injections to prevent the mothers anti-bodies from harming the baby because the baby will most likely not be the same blood group as the mother, and if the mother doesn't have these injections it could kill future babies.

Midwives teach, educate and empower women to take control of their own health care. In most communities, they provide prenatal care, or supervision of the pregnancy, and then assist the mother to give birth. They manage the
birth, and guard the woman and her newborn in the postpartum period.
Most midwives encourage and monitor women throughout their labour with
techniques to improve the labour and birth. Reassurance, positive imaging
and suggestions to change positions and walk help labours progress.

All midwives specialize in understanding normal aspects of the childbearing
cycle. They are trained to recognize deviations from the normal, recommend
holistic means for bringing the situation back into the realm of normal,
or refer to another practitioner when necessary. Midwives believe it is
important is to provide time for questions, teaching, and time to listen
to the concerns and needs of the women they care for.

13.

A midwife is used by some in place of an obstetrician. Midwives are more centered around women and their health issues. They provide support throughout the pregnancy and labor & delivery. They are usually only used for normal, healthy deliveries. If any problems or high risk deliveries are found they most likely will recommend that the mother use a licensed obstetrician.
they help give birth to babys

Answer 2

Midwives do a lot of things. They are very focused on the natural element of women's health care where OBGYN's are a bit more focused on the medical element.

Midwives can: Perform gynecological exams, Help with preconception planning, Provide prenatal care, Assist during natural and low intervention labor and delivery, Offer guidance with breastfeeding, and help with menopause.

Midwives cannot: Assist in high risk pregnancies, Assist in high intervention labor and delivery, Perform a C-section, and Give pain medications.

Answer 3

A midwife is typically a woman who aids in the birth of a baby in the place of a doctor. Quite often a midwife is involved in prenatal and postnatal well-being of the mother and infant.

Answer 4

A job of a midwive is to be personally responsible for the health of both mother and child and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications.

Answer 5

The job of a midwife is to play a key role in the pre and post natal care of mother and child during labor and delivery. The midwife also provides emotional support for the mother and family.

Answer 6

Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and child and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications.

Answer 7

The role of a midwife is to help a healthy women who is pregnant to deliver her baby. A woman can chose if she would like a doctor or if she would like a midwife to deliver her baby.

Answer 8

delivering babies.