A Midwife is a trained healthcare professional who provides prenatal care, labor, birth, postpartum, and newborn care. Midwives monitor mother and baby closely, ever watchful to help ensure the health of both. Importance is placed on education and a close relationship between mother and Midwife. This ensures that each woman is in control of her own health-care decisions and able to help the Midwife in monitoring the well-being of both Mother and Baby.