The role of the midwife or midwife is essential throughout pregnancy and childbirth. She is in charge of providing assistance, controlling that everything goes well and, very importantly, guiding, giving security and emotional support to the future mother.
Today, May 5, International Midwife Day is celebrated, date on which it is intended to raise awareness about the need to increase the number of professionals trained to assist women in such a special moment of their lives.
Midwives are a key piece in order to achieve the goal of attending births in an individualized way and humanizing births. They are also very necessary (and necessary, because there are also midwives, more and more) to achieve the 5th Objective of the United Nations Millennium which is 'Improve Maternal Health'. Without going any further in Spain, 2,500 midwives are missing. There are many centers without midwives and this has a lower quality of care for pregnant women during pregnancy and childbirth.
We hope that this lack of professionals can be solved because it is proven that direct care by midwives has a lower intervention and complications when giving birth.
From Babies and more we want to pay a special tribute to the men and women who take care day after day of one of the most generous jobs there can be: to bring new lives to the world.
