Answer 2

1. What knowledge most affects a midwives ability to best serve her patients?
2. If a midwife has an extensive knowledge in maternity care, then she can prevent her patients from having a caesarean section.
3. If a midwife is knowledgeable and experienced in primary care, then she can provide her patients with cost effective health care.
4. My answer is real in the true world because generally midwives are cheaper than a physician, they recently because independent practitioners, and they specialize in women's primary care from adolescence through menopause.
5. - Rosenthal, Elisabeth. "Getting Insurance to Pay for Midwives." New York Times. N.p., 03 July 2013. Web. 22 Aug. 2014.
   - Clift-Matthews, Victoria. "Providing High-quality Midwifery Care." British Journal of Midwifery, 17.7 (2009): 412.
   -Walker, Deborah, Barbara Lannen, and Debra Rossie. "Midwifery Practice And Education: Current Challenges And Opportunities." Online Journal Of Issues In Nursing 19.2 (2014): 9. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Sept. 2014
6. Varney's Midwifery by Helen Varney
    Your Best Birth by Rikki Lake 
7. This is the second best answer to my essential question because it focuses on an aspect other than pregnancy and labor and delivery. It goes more into depth of what other things midwife's specialize in.