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Article: International midwives day.
- Article from:
- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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May 5, 1993 marked the third annual observance of International Midwives Day. In 1987 at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM conference in Holland) the representative from Sierra Leone suggested there be a special time to recognize and honor the work midwives do throughout the world. Midwives saw this as a way to increase understanding of who they were and the work they did as well as a way of promoting midwifery care as the most appropriate care for childbearing women.
On May 5th, 1991, the first official International Midwives Day was celebrated. It has been observed in over 50 of ICM's member associations around the world, and ICM is working to ...