Midwifery (Pre-Registration)

This Midwifery (Pre-Registration) program from University of Plymouth equips you with the skills, knowledge and professional insight needed to become a registered midwife. Whether it's helping women during pregnancy and birth, or giving support to new mothers, you learn through doing, building your confidence as you go.

Careers

Midwives support women during pregnancy, labour and the post-natal period, and are experts on childbirth. They work with women from diverse backgrounds and cultures, providing parenting and health education. They create bespoke individuals programs of care, considering psychological and social impacts on pregnancy and birth.

Midwives support women when they need it most.

• Antenatal care – relates to the period of the entire pregnancy. They assist with parenting classes, clinical examinations and screening to assess the health of the baby.

• High-risk pregnancies – you’ll work with people who may have existing health conditions such as diabetes or HIV, may be overweight or obese which may lead to developing additional complications, people that have had multiple births, or may be very young or over the age of 35.

• Labour and birthing – you’ll monitor women and support them during the whole labour and birthing process.

• Postpartum – midwives support women by providing advice on what to expect after the birth. They also teach new and expectant mothers how to feed, care for and bathe their babies.

• Pregnancies that do not go to plan – you will work with women and families going through severe life challenges such as difficulties conceiving, stillbirth, miscarriage, termination, neonatal death and neonatal abnormalities.

Courses include:

• Professional Midwifery Practice

• Biology for Midwifery

• Wider Determinants of Health and Wellbeing

• Pharmacology and Medicines Management

• Evidence Based Practice

• Reproductive Health and Pregnancy

• Physiological Childbirth and additional needs