Item: Report finds midwife use keeps pace with Idaho birth rates/Idaho Statesman

More Info: The portion of births being assisted by midwives in Idaho is keeping pace as the number of births rises. Midwives were on hand for 5.4 percent of the 24,185 babies born in 2006, according to Idaho Department of Health and Welfare statistics released this year. Certified nurse midwives assisted with 806 of those births and so-called lay midwives attended another 489 for a total of 1,295 births. Midwives were present for about 200 more births than in 2005, when they helped deliver 4.8 percent of the 23,064 babies born in Idaho.

Question: Would you be comfortable having a midwife deliver your babies?

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