Irina Martinova

Irina Martinova is a midwife and psychologist practicing in St. Petersburg, Russia. She graduated as a specialty nurse-midwife from medical school in Novgorod, Russia. While working as a midwife for three years in a Novgorod maternity home, Irina attended more than 3,000 births. In 1980, Irina joined Russian male midwife Igor Charkovsky’s research group in Moscow and assisted her first waterbirth. By the end of 2009, Irina had attended 765 homebirths as a midwife.