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  • Midwives assisting a birth while astrologers consult sky charts; woodcut relief print from Jakob Rueff's De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554; The Expert Midwife).
    midwifery
    / Midwifery in the modern era

    Lay midwives receive training in an apprentice model with informal study. Lay midwives are not licensed and deliver in out-of-hospital settings. They still practice throughout the world, but their lack of formal training in emergency techniques and the subsequent association with increased maternal and infant…

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    Lay midwives receive training in an apprentice model with informal study. Lay midwives are not licensed and deliver in out-of-hospital settings. They still practice throughout the world, but their lack of formal training in emergency techniques and the subsequent association with increased maternal and infant…

    Read More