midwifery

The top performing schools in the November 2009 Midwifery Board Examination are the following:Section 7(m) of R.A. 8981, otherwise known as the PRC Modernization Act of 2000, states one function and responsibility of the Commission, to wit: “To monitor the performance of schools in licensure examinations and publish the results thereof in a newspaper of national circulation.”A. WITH 10-99 Read Full Story

Hiring a midwife can be one option in delivering your baby. Usually this method is done at home.And this method is also done naturally.Natural means that there are no drugs administered to a mother during her delivery.There are lots of mothers who choose this method because there are lots of benefits that they can get from it.Some examples of these benefits are that no drugs are used and that the delivery is done in the comforts of their homes.So let us discuss some of the roles that a midwife plays during a baby delivery. So let us define what a midwife is.A midwife is ... Read Full Story

I received this today from the NCT in response to my communication. Dear Midwifemuse, Firstly, I would like to thank you for your e-mail. It’s always really helpful to have feedback in this way. My name is Jay, and I am the Campaigns Project Officer here at the NCT. As such, it’s very good to be told about the situation for midwives around the country. We really do acknowledge the work that midwives do – as some of the entries in your blog, and the snapshot you provide show – often under very trying circumstances and without full compliments of staff. The situation you ... Read Full Story

If a woman gets pregnant there would be a lot of important decisins that should be decided upon immediately. They need to choose a doctor.They need to choose a hospital whre they would deliver their babies.And other important things as well.Most women don’t realize that they also have the choice of opting for a natural delivery. That is when mothers do not want drugs to be administered on them during the delivery itself. With more and more people concerned with health this is a gaining popularity.A profession that really helps in this area is called midwifery. What is the definiton of midwifery?It is defined ... Read Full Story

I read the NCTS’s research , Location, location, location and felt moved to email them. Here it is, will they reply? Will anyone out there stop the pressure and allow maternity services to make CONSIDERED changes rather than perform ill-judged and poorly planned knee-jerk reactions? As a community midwife I know that your organisation is represented on local MLSC’s so you must appreciate the constraints which many Trusts are placing on local maternity services. In my area we do offer women ‘real choice’, homebirth, MLU or obstetric unit, but in reality it is the midwives who are allowing these choices to be offered by ... Read Full Story