Paths to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education

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Paths to Becoming a Midwife is the complete book on midwifery education, designed specifically for the aspiring midwife. Answer your questions about becoming a midwife: What are the available educational paths to midwifery? Will you need to leave your community to become a midwife? Will nursing be your best route to midwifery? Will apprenticeship provide a comprehensive education for you? What kind of midwife do you want to be? This book is unique because it does not insist that one path to midwifery is inherently superior. This is a book of many voices, many philosophies. By bringing them together in one volume, Midwifery Today provides you, the aspiring midwife, with the information you need to make informed choices-to sort through the web of options available and choose the path which will help you become the midwife you want to be. Getting an Education, The Politics of Midwifery Education, Direct-Entry Midwifery: Apprenticeships, Schools and Distance Learning, Certified Nurse-Midwifery: Certificate Programs, Graduate Programs, Distance Learning, Childbirth Education, Labor Support, Postpartum Education and Lactation Support, Directory of Schools, Over 100 Entries of Resources, Organizations & Web Links.