Midwives

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 * Midwives are trained professionals (mostly women) that care for childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, as well as the postpartum period, striving to help women have a healthy and natural pregnancy. Midwives generally only know how to deal with low-risk pregnancies
 * Midwives may also provide other care for women, giving annual gynecological exams and helping with family planning
 * Midwives have existed throughout much of history (midwives have been referenced in ancient Hindu records and the Bible)
 * Throughout history, some midwives highly trained and educated (Parisian housewives had to pass a licensing exam as early as 1560), but there have been midwives that have received very little formal training (I would assume that the midwives in Heat and Dust would have received very little if any formal training - the knowledge of a midwifery would rather be passed on from generation to generation.)

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/labornbirth/midwives.html http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_center/childbirth/midwives.html
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