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From: pfoley@mhuxt.UUCP (foley)
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Subject: Re: Midwife delivery and pre-natal care
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 14:57:26 EDT
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> REFERENCES:  <225@encore.UUCP>
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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

I know of two hospitals that have midwives on their
staffs - Morristown Memorial and University Hospital
in Newark (I think that's the name - it's associated
with the College of Medicine and Dentistry).
I don't know what the exact deal is at Morristown, but
a friend who just delivered there was  checked by a
midwife in between visits from her doctor.
A friend of mine is a midwife at University Hospital,
and she does deliveries in the hospital (none at home).
 
Pam Foley  mhuxt!pfoley