Pregnancy and birth: midwives take to the streets
As you can see, she plays an important role with moms and babies. Yet midwives are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their profession! That is why more than 2,000 hospital and liberal midwives marched Tuesday in Paris to demand a revaluation of their work and "the recognition of the professionals of the birth"noted an AFP journalist.
"It is in the interest of women that we fight .. Of course there are wage demands but the main claim is vis-à-vis women.Rendez-vous their pregnancy" explained Annie- Claude Ottan, representative of the inter-union. The latter indicated that "with the closing of the maternity clinics nearby, large pregnancies are concentrated in high-risk pregnancies and normal pregnancies". "There is a standardization, but the majority of women do not want it," she said. She recalled that "midwives can perform ultrasounds, gynecological monitoring throughout life, support for birth".
The Inter requires a rise in wages and staff and a revalorization of the listing of their actions. Currently, nearly 20,000 midwives work in France, a proportion of 57 midwives per 100,000 women, below the OECD average (72 per 100,000).
"It is in the interest of women that we fight .. Of course there are wage demands but the main claim is vis-à-vis women.Rendez-vous their pregnancy" explained Annie- Claude Ottan, representative of the inter-union. The latter indicated that "with the closing of the maternity clinics nearby, large pregnancies are concentrated in high-risk pregnancies and normal pregnancies". "There is a standardization, but the majority of women do not want it," she said. She recalled that "midwives can perform ultrasounds, gynecological monitoring throughout life, support for birth".
The Inter requires a rise in wages and staff and a revalorization of the listing of their actions. Currently, nearly 20,000 midwives work in France, a proportion of 57 midwives per 100,000 women, below the OECD average (72 per 100,000).
