As used in Shepherd's Law: 1. "Certified Nurse-Midwife" or "nurse-midwife" shall have the same meaning as provided by Section 567.3a of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 2. "Commissioner" means the State Commissioner of Health; 3. "Committee" means the Advisory Committee on Midwifery; 4. "Department" means the State Department of Health; 5. "Licensed midwife" means a person who practices midwifery and is licensed under this act; 6. "Midwifery" means the practice of: a. providing the necessary supervision, care and advice to a woman during normal pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period, b. conducting a normal delivery of a child, c. providing normal newborn care, and d. providing routine well-woman care and screenings; 7. "Newborn" means an infant from birth through the first six weeks of life; 8. "Normal" means, as applied to pregnancy, labor, delivery, the postpartum period and the newborn period, and as defined by rules of the State Commissioner of Health, circumstances under which a midwife has determined that a client does not have a condition that requires medical intervention; 9. "Postpartum period" means the first six weeks after a woman has given birth; and 10. "Unlicensed midwife" means a person who offers midwifery services or holds himself or herself out to be a midwife who is not licensed under this act.
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