Bachelor of Science in Midwifery

Midwives are registered healthcare professionals who offer primary care to women with low-risk pregnancies from the time of conception until six weeks postpartum (after birth). Midwives work together with other health care providers such as physicians, nurses and social workers.
Midwives are necessary to have a four-year university degree to qualify for registration and are expected to engage in lifelong learning thorough understanding of normal and complex conditions affecting pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum care of women and the newborn. They must illustrate on a large body of information and sometimes make clinical decision under stressful or emergency situations. Midwives contribute in health care planning and policy making at local, national and international levels.
Besides of being responsible for supervising the birth process, conducting spontaneous, normal vaginal births in both hospital and out of hospital settings, midwives offer ongoing clinical care for patients throughout pregnancy. After birth, they advise mothers and their families on infant care and continue to monitor the mother’s and infant's health for a six week period. Manual skills are required in supporting clients through labour and birth and in tasks such as giving injections, setting up IVs, suturing perineal tears, and conducting physical examinations of clients and newborn babies.