What is the difference between midwifery care and OB care?

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
What is the difference between midwifery care and OB care?]

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[Text on screen: Lily Zimmermann, APRN-CNM
Certified Nurse Midwife
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center]

Lily Zimmermann, APRN-CNM: A midwife is a specialist in low-risk birth or we call physiological birth, meaning what do our bodies do naturally? An obstetrician is a high-risk obstetric provider, and while they may take care of low-risk women, and they do, and I think they probably enjoy having some low-risk patients, they are specialists in the depth of the problems that can arise in pregnancy. So let's just take, for example, type 2 diabetes. So if you're a diabetic patient, you often are going to be cared for from the get-go by a physician versus a midwife, who has a broader depth of understanding for what is just naturally going to happen in a woman's prenatal care and pregnancy outcomes.

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For more information, visit: go.osu.edu/midwiferycare]

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