Category Archives: Midwives

Education and training for midwives was a rollercoaster ride from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Rome and Greece educated and trained their midwives just as they educated and trained their other physicians. Medieval Europe…not so much.  That didn’t mean medieval Europe didn’t want or need midwives. Far from it! They just…didn’t support them as wellContinue reading “Educating Midwives”