How do they match: Midwives
- Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
- Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
- Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
- Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients.
- Treat medical emergencies.