When women realize labor is not progressing normally they first seek female friends or traditional birth attendants.

There also seems to be an association between having a delivery by skilled birth attendants and being under the age of twenty.

If any complications should arise during labor, you'll be asked to step out of the tub so your birth attendant can assist you.

There, more midwives are used as primary birth attendants than in any other industrialized nation.

A traditional birth attendant may have been formally educated and has chosen to not register.

Traditional birth attendants are often older women, respected in their communities.

On average, half of deliveries in the developing world have a skilled birth attendant present.

In addition, many people get medical treatment from traditional practitioners and traditional birth attendants.

How much do you know about what these birth attendants do?

And only the birth attendant can give the order to "push."