The most valuable investment is one in girls and women, and especially in mothers. Yet, maternal mortality remains one of the most prolific problems facing humanity today, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without mothers, families without sisters, and communities without beloved members. The impact of this global problem – which is reinforced by…
Category Archives: Midwifery Programs
Answer Your Calling with International Midwife Training
The world is taking notice that midwives play an imperative role in saving the lives of mothers and babies in every corner of the world and that means now is the perfect time to fulfill your life’s purpose. Answer your calling… become a midwife, and be positioned to support yourself and your family, while being…
Meet Our Advisory for Midwifery Programs and Curriculum Development
Midwife International is proud to introduce our Curriculum Advisory, a group of world-renowned midwives and birth experts with diverse specializations, from the anthropology of reproduction to medical herbalism. Our advisory works to inform all aspects of our curriculum, to help foster relationships with clinical host sites abroad and to guide the overall vision and direction…
Safe and Peaceful Birth in Guatemala
Holly Carpenter, a recent intern at our midwife training site in Guatemala, shares her observations on the problems that plague the public healthcare system in this poor Central American country. She reflects on how Manos Abiertas, a privately-run birth clinic that practices the Midwives Model of Care, provides a safe and peaceful alternative to women…
Gain Midwifery Experience Abroad: Midwife International Internship Program
Midwife International is proud to introduce our international midwifery internship program in which we offer short-term clinical placements at birth clinics around the world. The Midwife International Internship Program is designed to provide clinical experience in a challenging and rewarding environment, while serving the maternal healthcare needs of populations of some of the world’s most…
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Assumption of Innocence
As good midwives, leaders, and participants in our everyday lives we must be understanding, accepting and always compassionate despite the fact that we may find ourselves challenged by the beliefs or practices of others, especially as we travel the world. In this piece, Sarah Proechel Co-Founder of Midwife International and Board Member for the Midwife…
Continue Reading »Midwives in Isolated Areas
In this piece, Debbie Díaz Ortiz, an independent professional midwife and great-granddaughter of midwives in an isolated community of Puerto Rico, illuminates the power of terminology. She brings to light how the re-naming of the midwives who learn and practice in rural communities around the world as “traditional birth attendants” has had a damaging impact…
Continue Reading »How Being a Midwife Made Me a Better Doctor
I have many professional titles and roles: physician, midwife, herbalist, author, teacher. Of these, being a midwife most informs and enhances all of what I do and who I am. Midwife literally means “with woman.” But it also means, “to bring forth.” Midwives listen, coach, cheerlead, care, reassure, support, and speak truth. At my best, I…
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