Across New South Wales alone, midwives support the birth of almost 100,000 babies each year and play a significant role in the pregnancy, birth and post-natal journey. Yet, especially for new mums, it can be tricky to understand the role of the different people in your pregnancy journey, and how much you can lean on […]
Boosting Coverage of Midwife Care Could Avert Deaths
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2020 — About two-thirds of maternal deaths, neonatal deaths, and stillbirths could be averted with universal coverage of midwife-delivered interventions, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in The Lancet Global Health. Andrea Nove, Ph.D., from Novametrics in Duffield, England, and colleagues used the Lives Saved Tool to estimate the number […]