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From: 45223wc@mtuxo.UUCP (w.cambre)
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Subject: Re: Midwife delivery and pre-natal care
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 14:01:54 EDT
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Was the midwife associated with the hospital?  There aren't any
hospitals in Jersey that would let a midwife that wasn't associated
with that hospital deliver the child.  Actually I don't know of any
hospitals in Jersey that allows Midwives to deliver at all.

In New Jersey only Nurse-Midwives can get a license to deliver babies,
(not Lay-midwives).  And then they can practice only if they have a
doctor as backup at the nearest hospital to the location of the birth.
Very few doctors are willing to be backup for midwives, the only one
I know of in the Monmouth county area is backup for his wife, who
is a nurse-midwife and does home births.

 - Bill Cambre   ATTISL  mtuxo!45223wc