>Nurse midwives available at more area hospitals.
SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2011
BY BARBARA WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Finding a nurse-midwife in North Jersey — even one who speaks Japanese — is getting a bit easier as more hospitals are welcoming the practitioners to their staffs and into the birthing rooms.
Though they usually must be affiliated with an obstetrician to have hospital privileges, nurse-midwives in growing numbers are seeing patients for prenatal visits, then staying for the duration of the hospital birth.
Englewood resident Amani Elkordyhad no intention of having a midwife when she delivered her son, Nurideen, at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. But she was thrilled with the nurse-midwife who filled in for her obstetrician at the last minute and remained throughout her 20-hour labor.