Care And Caution For Safe Pregnancy (martin sooji)

Midwifery Practice is generally considered to a health care profession wherein midwives offer services pertaining to childbearing women during pregnancy, labor and birth and during the postpartum period. They normally help in caring the newborn and assist the mother with breast feeding. It also comes under their ambit of service to provide birth control, education and prescriptions for the general welfare and the health of the women.

In general one who practices midwifery is known as a midwife. In common place Midwifery practice term refers to both men and women even though generally we can see mostly women in practice. Moreover, in addition to providing care and help to pregnant women during their expected months, they are also experts in rendering primary care to women, and have sufficient knowledge regarding topics related to reproductive health, annual gynecological exams, family planning, and menopausal care etc. They are specialist in normal birth, childbirth, and postpartum and well-woman health care.

Normally they are well educated and undergo training to understand and handle the different processes of pregnancy and labor in order to handle normal progress of labor and deal with deviations from normal to complex situations. Midwifery as a profession in many countries, especially in the developed countries had proved to be highly effective on account of its safety, cost effective, and satisfactory and it has been practicing there for decade's altogether.

Take the case of the US where women make use of the services of obstetricians, who are specialists in illness related to childbearing and in surgery. While obstetricians falls under the category of medical doctors who can provide surgical services also, and can act effectively under complex situations, midwives generally are the experts in developmental and physiologic process which so normal in women. It is also seen in practice that in complicate situations in pregnancy midwives refer women to obstetricians or primatologists. Such incidents occur as and when they feel that the pregnancy case needs professional attention and the case is above their level of expertise.

In certain countries the role of midwifery also include in its scope to provide care to childbearing women. Midwives usually undergo training with special focus to handle difficult deliveries, including breech births, twin births and births where the baby is in a posterior position with the help of non-invasive techniques. The cost that the midwives demand for their services also varies. If it is normal births, midwives offer their services at comparatively lower cost. Whereas in the case if that needs special attention and care, they normally chare more amount by way of practice.

According to the definition of the International Confederation of Midwives, and the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, ''a midwife is a person who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery educational program that is duly recognized in the country in which it is located, has successfully completed the prescribed course of studies in midwifery and has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally licensed to practice midwifery''.

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