Midwife Services

Throughout much of the world, midwives are the traditional care providers for women during pregnancy. In the United States, the use of midwives is steadily increasing. In general, midwives follow the principle that pregnancy and birth are normal, healthy, personal events until proven otherwise. As a result, midwives generally take a lower-tech approach than obstetricians and other doctors typically do.

A Certified Nurse Midwife provides the following:

Preconception counseling
Care during pregnancy and childbirth
Normal gynecological services (such as pap smears and vaginal/bladder infection treatment)
Contraceptive care
Care of peri- and post-menopausal women
An emphasis on health and wellness education and preventive care

Rebecca Gray CNM, FNP

• Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioner, Hyden, KY
• Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program, Planned Parenthood of MN
• Special Interests: providing midwifery services for healthy mothers with normal pregnancies, women's health and family medicine
• Started at SCRMC in 2011

 

 

Kelly Schmidt, CNM

• University of Minnesota Midwifery Program
• University of Minnesota Residency
• Special Interests: providing midwifery services for healthy mothers with normal pregnancies and other women's health issues
• Started at SCRMC in 1997