Birth & Midwifery in Iceland
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contact

Kristbjörg Magnúsdóttir is a midwife at the National University Hospital in Reykjavik. She works part-time in the delivery ward. The University Hospital has about 2800 births per year out of 4000 in Iceland. She works for the Icelandic Midwifery Association, negotiating for higher wages and better benefits for midwives in Iceland who work for the government (all the hospitals are government run). She has three children, two of whom were born at home.

To contact Kristbjörg Magnúsdóttir or any other Midwifery Today Country Contact, write to the IAM administrator.

Birth/Midwifery

• The Icelandic Midwives Association
• Icelandic Nurses Association