The UNC Division of Midwifery serves women throughout their lives from teenagers to mature women. We provide a wide range of services including first GYN exams, pregnancy care that includes births at the University of North Carolina’s Women's Hospital, contraception services, peri-menopausal management, hormone replacement therapy, and pap smears and women's prevention health care.
 
Certified Nurse-Midwives are an alternative to physician care, not a substitute. Midwives partner with women of all ages in their healthcare. UNC midwives place importance on prenatal teaching and counseling. Midwives work together with the birthing woman and her family in the delivery of the baby at UNC Women's Hospital. Midwives also work with the attending obstetricians if their patients require physician consultation. Along with ordering medication and epidurals for their patients, Certified Nurse-Midwives utilize their expertise in alternative and complimentary therapies, such as aroma-therapy and massage. Certified Nurse-Midwives are the experts in normal pregnancy care.

“It is imperative…to advocate for the availability of certified nurse-midwife services and woman-centered care in the hospital setting.”

Latendresse et al. (2005), J Midwifery Womens Health
 
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