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Choosing a pregnancy path: Strengths of doctor-led and midwife-led care

...Midwives are embraced at Vanderbilt as a critical part of both models of care. A midwife-led approach, also referred to as total midwifery care, is provided through Vanderbilt University’s School...

Woman laughs during a conversation with her midwife in a clinic

Women's Health

Midwifery care before and after childbirth

...midwifery. They are known as certified nurse-midwives. Although there are a number of professional pathways in midwifery, they all share a similar philosophy on addressing the mind, body, spirit and...

Family

Busting myths about midwives

...midwife,” Detzel says. The most important thing people should know about midwifery? “The biggest thing is we’re there for women,” says Detzel. “We’re all smart; if something has gone wrong...

Pregnant Asian woman visits with a maternal-fetal medicine specialist.

Family

What to expect if you’re referred to a maternal-fetal medicine specialist

...specialist during your pregnancy but will continue prenatal care and have your baby delivered by your doctor or midwife.” Co-management: “Your doctor or midwife may ask a maternal-fetal medicine specialist...

Family

What to know about vaginal birth after cesarean section

For years women were discouraged from attempting vaginal birth after a C-section. Now the thinking is changing. Here’s what to ask your provider. As a certified nurse-midwife, it never occurred...

Family

Five tips to overcome early pregnancy anxiety

...of miscarriage to contend with. “As a midwife, I have often said the wait from the two lines on the stick to feeling the first kicks can seem so agonizingly...

Pregnancy

The importance of selecting a pregnancy hospital

...do you want to deliver your baby? Your birthing plan might include a doctor, a certified nurse midwife or a lay midwife. “It needs to be somebody who listens and...

A pregnant couple speaking to provider on creating a birth plan.

Health Topics

Low-intervention labor and creating a birth plan: What are my options?

...labor and birth process promotes the belief that childbirth is a natural, healthy, physiologic process,” said Alexandra Speros White, CNM, FNP, a midwife with Vanderbilt Midwives. “Because every labor and...

Family

Understanding preeclampsia: One mother’s story

...I saw the midwife a week after having my son she said, “Wow, you look like a different person.” (Read about my family-centered C-section birth here.) However, before getting the...