Experts credit the anticipated spike in available employment to the effects of health care legislation and a gradual shift by healthy mothers-to-be toward a more cost-effective approach to childbirth.

To gain insight from an expert in the field, we reached out to Aleksandra Evanguelidi LM, CPM, who has been a midwife in Los Angeles for over 20 years and is the co-creator and host of the podcast Under the Hood.