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3. What services can New York State licensed midwives perform?

3. What services can New York State licensed midwives perform?

Midwifery is defined as the management of normal pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care, as well as primary preventive reproductive health care. To the extent they fall within that definition and within each midwife's professional competency, midwifery services may include, but are not limited to:

  • Annual exams including gynecological care, primary care, health screening and counseling with a focus on health promotion and disease prevention
  • History and physical examinations
  • First exams for young women
  • Family planning and prescribing of birth control methods
  • Pre-conception counseling
  • Well woman and adolescent gynecological care
  • Perimenopausal and postmenopausal counseling and care
  • Comprehensive maternity care including prenatal, labor, delivery, postpartum & newborn care
  • Order and interpret laboratory tests and diagnostic studies and devices and interpret results
  • Order durable medical equipment and medical devices
  • Hospital admission, rounds and discharge
  • Newborn circumcision
  • First assisting at surgical procedures
  • Obstetric and gynecologic screening procedures
  • Evaluation and treatment of common health problems
  • Public education activities
  • Referral to specialists