Meanings of birth attendant in English

Shamimu Nabasirye credits her traditional birth attendant with saving her life.

As a birth attendant, I've seen and heard it all.

OVD forms an integral part of basic emergency obstetric care and a skilled birth attendant's duties.

A few years later he went to the same birth attendant, also a bone setter, to treat a soccer injury.

Photograph: Lachlan Moore Rhea Dempsey is a birth attendant and counsellor who consulted with Ivin and Coleman as Jo's character developed.

Home-delivered topical antiseptics, facility-based birth , and birth attendant hand-washing were associated with greater likelihoods of cord separation after 7 days of age.

In a city rife with predatory quacks and counterfeit pharmaceuticals Atieno, 38, was a trained birth attendant who gave her services for free.

During Super Typhoon Yolanda, UNFPA reports 900 women a day gave birth in so-called makeshift clinics without so much as a skilled birth attendant present.

It was followed by a program to train traditional birth attendants.

But traditional birth attendants still find plenty of work.

Circumcisers learn to perform FGM while training with elder women to become traditional birth attendants.

Ideally, health clinics should have good relationships with community leaders and traditional healers and birth attendants, Mallett said.

We also reviewed Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) training.

Members of the Ten Beloved Sisters group of traditional birth attendants talking to BBC Africa Health Correspondent, Anne Soy.

Bringing the toll down means ensuring trained birth attendants are present, emergency hospital care is available and family planning, she said.

Significant factors included immunisation of infants as well as increasing levels of female education and the availability of skilled birth attendants.