Non-Female Midwives

One of our best baby nurses is a man. He doesn't do labor, but he does postpartum, babies, NICU and GYN surgeries.

It's different than the norm, but people accept him as they would a male doctor. If we know a woman has been sexually abused, usually he won't be assigned to her, especially right after birth.

If men are being midwives, we might need to change the name. (Like mailmen are now mail carriers. Firemen are now firefighters.) MidWIFE just doesn't seem right. Our doctors and certified midwives are all called "providers." I guess that will have to do.

as was pointed out earlier in the thread mid wife literally means mit=with wife=woman
and fireman is someone who feeds a fire, firefighter,one who puts a fire out....

I thought I wanted a female provider to deliver my baby, but then I had an appointment with the male midwife who ended up being on call the night my water broke. He was actually in the room with his lavender oil showing my husband some pressure points to try to stimulate some contractions after my water broke and my body was doing a whole lot of nothing! Thats more than I can say about some of the female "medwives" I have worked with in the past. Some women didn't care for him, but I thought he did a wonderful job.