nurse midwife
Delivery room specialist
A nurse midwife is a registered nurse with advanced training in midwifery, qualified to provide prenatal care, assist with childbirth, and offer postpartum support.
Unlike traditional midwives, nurse midwives hold nursing credentials and typically work within the medical system: The nurse midwife delivered both of my children at the birthing center.
- birth centerFacility for natural deliveries
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- birthingAct of delivering young
- contractionsShortened word forms
fetal monitor · newborn · skin to skin · prenatal · due date · baby shower · postpartum · breastfeeding · cervix · umbilical · swaddling · epidural · natural birth · water birth · breathing exercises · pushing · crowning · placenta
- nursingRN, LPN, LPNs, CNAs, CNA
- birth professionalsdoula, obstetrician, OB-GYN, birth attendant, CPM
- Nursing Specialtiescritical care, palliative care
- midlevel providersphysician assistant, NP, PA, CNS
nurse midwifeobstetrician
Childbirth physician
OB-GYN · perinatologist · physician · surgeon · medical doctor
nurse, midwife, nurses, nursing, nursed, nursery, nurser, midwives, midwifery