Midwife protocols
More and more midwife records are coming online at the National Archives' Arkivalieronline. They are of particular interest to genealogists as they contain information about how many births the woman has had, deaths are included and a range of information about the birth (time, duration of birth) and the child (weight etc.). Midwife records are scanned on Archival Online under Social and Health Services and then under Medical Districts. They can be found at this link: Midwife records online at sa.dk
In the example shown from Esbjerg, the well-known midwife Karen Sundbo (1862-1947) has given information about Karen Kristine Jensen's stillborn child of 5 1/2 kg, where there were "very strong signs of wasting