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| From the President's Desk-
We are pleased to announce the release of an Issue Brief: Certified Professional Midwives in the United States. The Midwives Alliance of North American (MANA) collaborated with the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC), and the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) to create this issue brief. These four national organizations-MANA, NARM, MEAC and NACPM-have played essential roles in the conception, formation, promotion and maintenance of the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential... Read
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 -
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| The issue of legalizing direct-entry midwifery is the subject of a study committee in the N.C. General Assembly this session. The House select committee was formed to investigate the merit of licensing independent midwives, and a report is due by the end of the year. Read
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 -
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| You'd think the healthcare establishment would have bigger fish to fry than Ricki Lake. (The 47 million uninsured, maybe?) But Lake's recent documentary, "The Business of Being Born," which includes footage of her own delivery of her second child at home, was on the agenda at the American Medical Assn.'s annual meeting in mid-June. Read
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 -
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| AMA Resolution 205 attempts to outlaw a woman’s choice to birth at home or in a freestanding birth center by calling for legislation to establish hospitals and hospital-based birth centers as the safest place for labor, delivery and postpartum recovery. Read
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 -
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| An alternative to hospital and home deliveries, the North Charleston [birth] center is a compromise for mothers who have a natural birth plan yet want accessibility to emergency care should complications arise. Read
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 -
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Dana Albillo is doing something no one in St. Louis' underground home-birth network ever dared.
She's advertising. Read
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 -
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| "What I needed was an expert on pregnancy—in other words, a midwife." Read
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 -
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| Canada’s obstetricians are warning today that the percentage of babies born by Cesarean section is at an all-time high and continues to rise. Read
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 -
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| Maiorca loved [her homebirth] experience so much that she took over organizing the Chicago Homebirth Meetup Group, which grew from 40 members in 2004 to more than 220 today. Read
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Garnet Kish (top), born at home in Given, WV (Jackson County) in the summer of 2006, and William Teagan Schaefer (bottom), born at home in Elkins, WV (Randolph County) in April 2008, are both shown getting a hug from Bill Clinton at political rallies during election season, May 2008.
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Derrick W. Love, (R) candidate for House of Representatives 38th District, is shown presenting a check to the West Virginia Friends of Midwives. Accepting the donation on behalf of the group is the Vice President Ashley Wright Avington of Weston. The monies will be used to help with the ongoing education efforts of the benefits of utilizing midwives for women using the group's website www.friendsofmidwives.com.
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