Midwifery

Midwifery is a health care profession and it's very important for the family. A midwife gives prenatal care to expecting mothers. Also, a midwife attends the birth of the baby and she takes care of the mother after the labor or postpartum.

Some of the important challenges that our trade has to face nowadays is who should be in charge in caring management. Recently we had some problems with the nurses about it. I think that health belongs to everybody and there is a place for every health care profession.

Some of the technologic issues that we have to face is the lack of ultrasound machines in hospitals. They are significant if we want to have a happy pregnancy and succesful births.

If we talk about social matters, a midwife is a very social profession because we educate people, especially women, so they can take care of themselves. In that area, we cand find some problems with the language that we use to teach people. Sometimes, we use a very medical leanguage, so common people don't understand what we say and they keep on doing things that affect their lives.

Education, as I said before, allows us to give people the power of being the main character in their lives, I mean, if they know how to take care of themselves, they shouldn't get sick, so their lives would be a lot better.

Some of the critical issues that are involved in midwifery area or in health area in general, is the lack of resources in every health center. Government doesn't invest money enough to satisfy the great health demand.

The lack of resources involves a bad health attetion from the midwife because every health professional needs some elements to make their labor the best that they can do.

Other issue that we have to face is that people don't have idea about our job, because a midwife attends a lot of process in women's lives. So we have to encourage women to visit their midwives because that's the only way that we have to make a change in their lives. We have to educate women about their sexual health and show them the importance of the midwives in their lives.