Nurse-Midwives in Denville, New Jersey

Midwives blend the craft and history of midwifery with contemporary medicine and "technology," when necessary. The care that nurse-midwives provide addresses all the needs of healthy women throughout the life cycle.

A Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) is a licensed trained professional health care provider. She is probably best known for how she helps women during labor and delivery, but the midwife applies her philosophy of care to all settings, providing care to women from the teenage years through menopause.

The scope of the midwifes practice includes pre-conceptual guidance, prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, annual health exams, family planning, and menopausal care. This care includes evaluation, assessment, treatment, and referral to a specialist, if required. CNMs emphasize health promotion, education, and disease prevention.

One of the primary goals and philosophies of nurse-midwives is striving to maintain the spiritual dimension that grows from the wonder of birth, in the face of an increasingly technological world. The history of women helping women is part of their profession, even in its most modern form. Daily, midwives meet the challenge of combining that caring legacy with modern technology to help make birth today a safer and more satisfying experience than ever before.

In giving women the time they need during their appointments, women develop a trusting relationship with their midwives. Their relationship is based upon full disclosure, two-way communication, cultural and religious tolerance, and sound advice. This trust is one of a womans greatest resources when labor begins, as well as in all aspects of womens healthcare throughout their life cycles.

Certified nurse-midwives can be found in all fifty states, and in a variety of settings. You can find more information about the profession of Midwifery from The American College of Nurse-Midwives (www.midwife.org)...and you can find your own midwives in Denville, New Jersey.

Marla Scott, CNM and Judy Caruso, CNM have joined the OB/GYN practice of Raffaele Albanese, MD in Denville, New Jersey. They are affiliated with St. Clares Hospital in Denville, New Jersey.

The choice is yours.

For further information or a free consultation, please call Midwives of Denville at
(973) 625-4666, or visit us on the Web at http://www.midwivesofdenville.com