Midwives in the military offer extra level of care

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Midwives in the military offer extra level of care
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, January 25, 2009

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Late last fall, as Mindy Adorador was just beginning to show during her first pregnancy, she told a midwife at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka about the slight whispers in her belly.

"It feels like a little butterfly," Adorador, a Navy spouse, said.

"That’s movement," said the midwife, Lt. Cmdr. Andrea Hiles.

"How funny!" the expectant mother said, laughing.

For Adorador, it was a reassuring answer in the midst of the excitement and confusion of a first pregnancy. For Hiles, a Navy nurse for 17 years, including two as a certified midwife, it was part of her military job.


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