A birth attendant, also known as skilled birth attendant, is a health professional who provides basic and emergency care to women and their newborns during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. A birth attendant, who may be a midwife, physician, obstetrician, or nurse, is trained to be present at ("attend") childbirth, whether the delivery takes place in a health care institution or at home, to recognize and respond appropriately to medical complications, and to implement interventions to help prevent them in the first place, including through prenatal care.[1] Different birth attendants are able to provide different levels of care.
^World Health Organization. 2002. Global action for skilled attendants for pregnant women. [1]
A birthattendant, also known as skilled birthattendant, is a health professional who provides basic and emergency care to women and their newborns during...
A traditional birthattendant (TBA), also known as a traditional midwife, community midwife or lay midwife, is a pregnancy and childbirth care provider...
important for the birthattendant to be knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced with all variations of breech birth. Birthattendant's skill (and experience...
A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, where in the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate...
giving birth without the assistance of a medical birthattendant. It may also be known as freebirth, DIY (do-it-yourself) birth, unhindered birth, and unassisted...
historically, monthly nurses. Full-spectrum doulas extend the role of a birthattendant and provide support for all reproductive experiences which connect...
Water birth is labor and sometimes delivery that occurs in water, usually a birthing pool. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists does...
traditional birth attendants were replaced by modern birthattendants also known as “kindai-sanba”. While statistics suggest that only 2.8% of births in Japan...
associated with indigenous birthing. In jurisdictions where midwifery is not a regulated profession, traditional birthattendants, also known as traditional...
Birth weight is the body weight of a baby at their birth. The average birth weight in babies of European and African descent is 3.5 kilograms (7.7 lb)...
A vaginal delivery is the birth of offspring in mammals (babies in humans) through the vagina (also called the "birth canal"). It is the most common method...
(18 to 35 imp fl oz; 17 to 34 US fl oz) of amniotic fluid is present at birth. The forewaters are released when the amnion ruptures. This is commonly...
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy. Birth...
birth is a birth that takes place in a residence rather than in a hospital or a birthing center. They may be attended by a midwife, or lay attendant with...
of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by...
A flight attendant, traditionally known as a steward (MASC) or stewardess (FEM); or air host (MASC) or hostess (FEM), is a member of the aircrew aboard...
Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately...
required.) Aziato L, Omenyo CN (March 2018). "Initiation of traditional birthattendants and their traditional and spiritual practices during pregnancy and...
other positions are successfully used by midwives and traditional birth-attendants around the world. Engelmann's seminal 1882 work "Labor among primitive...
birthattendants (i.e. mother and/or mother-in-law) during the event. When labour and birth were perceived imminent, the woman and/or her attendants would...
In the field of obstetrics, lochia is the vaginal discharge after giving birth, containing blood, mucus, and uterine tissue. Lochia discharge typically...
membranes that hold a developing embryo (and later fetus) until shortly before birth. The inner of these membranes, the amnion, encloses the amniotic cavity...
during a physician or midwife attended hospital birth, a midwife attended homebirth, or an unassisted birth. The term "natural childbirth" was coined by...
the cervix dilates and contractions of the uterus propel it through the birth canal, which is the vagina, and thereby gives external life to the newborn...
sometimes by upskilling those people already practicing as traditional birthattendants. Some primary care services are currently lacking, due to a shortage...
Inexpensive care from traditional birthattendants included routine antenatal care, however untrained attendants and traditional healers did not provide...
when movements are initially perceived. Women who have previously given birth have more relaxed uterine muscles which are more sensitive to fetal motion...
is counted as 1. Parity, or "para", indicates the number of births (including live births and stillbirths) where pregnancies reached viable gestational...
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