What type of emergency equipment do midwives carry?

Midwives are trained to respond to medical emergencies and carry equipment and medications to treat common complications of childbirth. This includes oxygen tanks for mother and baby, resuscitation equipment for newborns, intravenous supplies, tools for suturing tears and medications to treat heavy bleeding.

What is midwifery kit?

The kit contains basic drugs, renewable medical supplies, medical equipment and basic sterilisation and resuscitation equipment for health facilities to perform an average of 50 normal deliveries.

What is in a midwife’s birth kit?

A birth kit contains items like cord clamps, sterile gloves, mesh underwear, plastic-backed pads, and other basic medical supplies. Your midwife will carry reusable, sterilized supplies to supplement what you have purchased.

What services do midwives provide?

What Does Your Midwife Do?

• Provide family planning and preconception care.
• Do prenatal exams and order tests.
• Watch your physical and psychological well-being.
• Help you make your birth plans.
• Advise you about diet, exercise, meds, and staying healthy.
• Educate and counsel you about pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care.

Where to buy midwifery and home birth supplies?

Everything Birth provides the quality midwifery supplies you need for you home birth and birth center practices. Search by category below for your medical equipment needs such as hemoglobin meters, or upgrading your fetoscopes to the top Allen Series, or search our custom student midwifery packages and new midwife packages.

What are the medical tools used by midwives?

Stethoscopes are used for both you and the baby to check blood pressure. Forceps are used to help remove the baby if it gets stuck, and surgical scissors are used to cut the umbilical cord.

What are the different types of midwives during pregnancy?

The use of midwives during pregnancy has been around for centuries and there are a few types of midwives to choose from, including certified nurse-midwives, certified professional midwives and direct-entry midwives.

When do you use gloves as a midwife?

For the health and safety of you and the midwife, gloves are always used when handling the medical tools and when touching you or the baby. It is the only way to ensure that nothing is transferred to the baby after delivery. Syringes and needles are necessary to administer the epidural that will relieve you from some of the pain during labor.