It is recommended that if your pregnancy, birth or post partum conditions have any foreseen complications, an experienced obstetrician is the only choice. A certified nurse midwife is a specially trained registered nurse or nurse practitioner who deals with normal pregnancies, normal births and normal post partum patients. Many obstetrical practice groups today include a certified nurse midwife among their practitioners as an option for their patients. Midwives stress education and share useful information, then leave the decision making to the client. Midwives stress natural birth and breast-feeding.
Midwives are non-interventionists.
Midwives trust a woman's power to give birth successfully. Midwives are supportive guardians of the normal birth. Midwives prefer homeopathic methods. Choosing between a Midwife and MD is a personal decision. Careful considerations of individual circumstances are weighed.