The oldest medical profession , the midwife, as well as the help of a women at birth is old as humankind. Uneducated but experienced women passed their skills from generation to generation younger midwives, so often this job remained in their families. Attending the courses, and later in the schools and faculties, the midwivies have perfected this esteemed interest to what is known to us today. About pregnancy, childbirth and newborn reanimation we know much today, but we are aware of the other quantities we do not know. One hundred years ago, the basic things in medicine were the same as today known, and access to pregnant women, to women in labor and purperae, as well as midwife care of mother and child, but also her responsibilities and duties are changed significantly. From the relationship between the environment to the women in labor in which she is found, and to which the midwife comes, to the relationship between the environment and the woman to midwife and her work, we can see significant differences from what we consider to be commonplace today. Big differences can be seen in planning pregnancy as well as defining an diagnosing what we can thank for the modernization od equipment as well as the education of midwifes has reached an enviable level of concern for full pregnancy, birth and puerperae, caring for the newborn and the mother. By relocating the birth to the maternity hospital and by ceasing to do the birth in the house, the obstetristic advances to what we have today.