Midwifery
Registered midwives are primary care providers and experts in the provision of care throughout pregnancy, birth, and the first six weeks postpartum for parents and infants in addition to the provision of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care which includes contraceptive counseling and prescribing, abortion care, vaccinations, cervical cancer and STI screening, and infant feeding support. Midwives attend births in hospital and out of hospitals, in birth centres and at home.