Midwifery

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What is a Midwife

The word midwife means “with woman”—a simple phrase that reflects the heart of midwifery care: walking alongside women throughout their lives.

Certified Nurse-Midwives provide far more than pregnancy and birth care. Midwifery services may begin in adolescence and continue through adulthood, offering annual wellness examinations, reproductive and sexual healthcare, family planning, contraception, preconception counseling, prenatal care, labor and birth support, postpartum care, breastfeeding guidance, and care during perimenopause and menopause.

Midwifery is not a new approach or a passing trend. It is a tried-and-true model of care grounded in evidence, trusted relationships, informed choice, and respect for each woman’s individual needs. Midwives combine clinical expertise with the time, education, and personal support women deserve. The outcomes—and generations of women who have benefited from this model—speak for themselves.

Whether a woman is preparing for her first period, planning a family, welcoming a baby, navigating menopause, or simply seeking a healthcare provider who will listen, a midwife can be there.

Midwives at Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

For families in rural communities, local maternity care is more than convenience. It is earlier access, trusted relationships, continuity through birth, and fewer miles between a patient and the care they need. At Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers, Certified Nurse-Midwives are essential members of an integrated maternity team — protecting the promise that excellent maternity care can remain close to home.

Every woman deserves a midwife—because every woman deserves compassionate, knowledgeable care and someone who will walk beside her through every stage of life.

Role and Services of a Midwife

Care across a lifetime — Build long-term relationships while practicing the full breadth of nurse-midwifery.

Pregnancy & birth — Provide prenatal care, labor support, and births at Wayne Memorial Hospital’s New Beginnings Birthing Suites.

Beyond pregnancy — Offer postpartum care, annual gynecologic care, family planning, and menopause support.

Integrated support — Connect patients to ultrasound, maternal-fetal medicine, lactation, behavioral health, nutrition, pediatrics, and primary care.

Community impact — Expand access for families through compassionate, evidence-based, culturally responsive care.

Frequently Asked Questions

Managing labor

At Wayne Memorial your birth plan can be comprised of non-pharmacological pain management strategies, medications including an epidural or a combination of both. Our team of trusted birth experts will work with you so you can experience the birth you want. Non-medication techniques include hydrotherapy, birthing balls, patterned breathing, position changes, counter-pressure as well as hot and cold therapies.

Waterbirths

Women giving birth at Wayne Memorial have the option of a Water Birth with the guidance of Certified Nurse Midwives. Water births are facilitated in a temperature-controlled warm tub of water. This method is thought to be more natural and gentler for the baby and less stressful for the mother. Women may choose to be immersed in water for either all or part of the labor as well as the birth. Some may choose to get out of the tub prior to birthing their baby. Our midwives will work with you and support your decisions so you may be in control of your own birth experience.