Relationship-Centered Care
Midwifery is very relationship-based. It prioritizes mutual decision making so much so that the American College of Nurse-Midwives has made this a priority among all their professional documents. We, as midwives, prioritize counseling, education, and informed consent. We seek to empower our clients and become their best #advocate. Fear-based medicine is something of conventional medicine practitioners, obstetrics, but not midwifery, and certainly not integrative and functiona