Midwives – Midwifery Study Guide & Practice Questions
MIDWIVES: - correct answer ✔✔Monitor the physical, psychological and social well-being of the
mother throughout the childbearing cycle;
Provide the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous
hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support;
Minimize technological interventions and;
Identify and refer women who require obstetrical attention.
THIS WOMAN-CENTERED MIDWIFERY MODEL OF CARE HAS BEEN PROVEN TO REDUCE THE
INCIDENCE OF BIRTH INJURY, TRAUMA, AND CESAREAN SECTION.
The techno-medical model of maternity care is based on the belief that pregnancy and labor are
illnesses, which, in order to not be harmful to mother or baby, must be treated with drugs and
medical equipment. - correct answer ✔✔Eating and drinking in labor are usually not permitted.
Labor pain is seen as unacceptable, so analgesia and anesthesia are encouraged.
Once labor starts, birth must take place within twenty-four hours.
Some medical intervention is considered necessary for every birth, and birth is safe only in
retrospect.
Women generally labor in bed hooked up to electronic fetal monitors (externally and/or
internally), intravenous tubes and uterine pressure reading devices.
International Definition of a Midwife - correct answer ✔✔is recognized as a responsible and
accountable professional who works in partnership with women to give the necessary support,
care and advice during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period, to conduct births on the
midwife's own responsibility and to provide care for the newborn and the infant. This care
includes preventive measures, the promotion of normal birth, the detection of complications in
mother and child, the accessing of medical or other appropriate assistance and the carrying out
of emergency measures.
MIDWIVES: - correct answer ✔✔Monitor the physical, psychological and social well-being of the
mother throughout the childbearing cycle;
Provide the mother with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous
hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support;
Minimize technological interventions and;
Identify and refer women who require obstetrical attention.
THIS WOMAN-CENTERED MIDWIFERY MODEL OF CARE HAS BEEN PROVEN TO REDUCE THE
INCIDENCE OF BIRTH INJURY, TRAUMA, AND CESAREAN SECTION.
The techno-medical model of maternity care is based on the belief that pregnancy and labor are
illnesses, which, in order to not be harmful to mother or baby, must be treated with drugs and
medical equipment. - correct answer ✔✔Eating and drinking in labor are usually not permitted.
Labor pain is seen as unacceptable, so analgesia and anesthesia are encouraged.
Once labor starts, birth must take place within twenty-four hours.
Some medical intervention is considered necessary for every birth, and birth is safe only in
retrospect.
Women generally labor in bed hooked up to electronic fetal monitors (externally and/or
internally), intravenous tubes and uterine pressure reading devices.
International Definition of a Midwife - correct answer ✔✔is recognized as a responsible and
accountable professional who works in partnership with women to give the necessary support,
care and advice during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period, to conduct births on the
midwife's own responsibility and to provide care for the newborn and the infant. This care
includes preventive measures, the promotion of normal birth, the detection of complications in
mother and child, the accessing of medical or other appropriate assistance and the carrying out
of emergency measures.
