The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

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Meet Mama Anne, a lifelike childbirth simulator that blinks, breathes and talks, helping midwifery students practice real labor scenarios safely.

One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from ...

When Cal State Fullerton assistant nursing professor Angela Sojobi was completing her education, she was the only black midwife student in her program. The lack of peers that looked like her brought ...

Huston-Tillotson University is starting a new program to train and increase the number of doulas, certified midwives and lactation consultants in Central Texas. With a $763,500 one-year grant from ...

AtlantiCare Nurse-Midwife Jeanne Dadura estimates she’s delivered approximately 3,000 babies during her career as a midwife, which spans more than 30 years. When Dadura first began practicing as a ...

Legislation passed in 2017 in South Dakota opened the door to licensing of a new classification of “professional midwives,” who can become certified to perform home births with far less training and ...