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Abstract A midwife is a health professional who provide continue support and care for women during pregnancy, labour and child birth. A Midwife helps to stay healthy in pregnancy and provide full antenatal care, including parenting classes, clinical examinations and screening and. Identify high-risk pregnancies if no complications arise, to give birth with little intervention. Midwives also provide care for first few weeks following the birth. Teach new and expectant mothers how to feed, care for and bathe their babies. Pregnant women who received prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care primarily from a midwife were less likely to deliver prematurely (before 24 weeks) and needed fewer medical interventions, compared with women cared for by obstetricians or family physicians. The main benefits were that women who received continue midwifery support during labour less likely to have an epidural. In addition, fewer women had episiotomies or instrumental births. Women's chances of a spontaneous vaginal birth were also increased and there was no difference in the number of caesarean births.