Midwives Group Launches Fundraiser
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is trying a new approach to raise awareness and its profile: postage stamps. The ACNM has teamed up with Stamps.com to offer a limited edition set of stamps with various images—photos of newborns, a pregnant belly, a mom and baby or an artistic message with the ACNM web site. |
FitPregnancy.com |
November 7, 2008 |
Midwives see renewed interest in natural births
Eight percent of babies born in Montanna are delivered by midwives. In Montanna and across the nation, the number of babies delivered by midwives is on the rise. |
Billings Gazette |
November 16, 2008 |
Baby, You’re Home
Midwives Say Home Births Are Up, Despite Warnings |
New York Times |
November 12, 2008 |
Midwives do much more than deliver babies
"We can care for women from adolescence through post-menopause,'' said Dowling-Krall, "providing routine GYN care, low-risk obstetrics/labor and delivery, menopause management, prescription privileges, diagnostic studies, nutritional counseling, family planning, adolescent health issues and ultrasound.''
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APP.com |
November 11,2008 |
New Mexico Midwives Make Headway in Medicaid Reimbursement
169 midwives outnumber the state's 154 practicing obstetrician gynecologists in model state for midwifery. |
Black Hills Today |
November 11, 2008 |
Chicago Birth Summit
The Chicago Birth Summit came together as a representative group of over 40,000 birth professionals who are committed to the improvement of maternity care. This group will serve as a catalyst for change to advocate for birth choices within obstetrical care, including VBAC, homebirth, waterbirth, midwifery care and evidence-based childbirth education. |
Chicago HypnoBirthing |
November 9, 2008 |
Great Expectations
According to a USA Today poll conducted last year, 36 percent of women surveyed found that delivering their first child was harder than expected, 31 percent said it was easier, and 13 percent said they hadn’t known what to expect. Only 1 in 5 women had a childbirth experience that was in line with what they had anticipated. |
Fit Pregnancy |
October 31, 2008 |
1,000 Words: Starting Out at Home
One might wonder how humankind thrived for centuries before modern hospitals. Ask the families of these beautiful, healthy,
home-birthed babies. |
The Commercial Appeal |
October 26, 2008 |
Midwives speak on birthing
Between midterms and picking the perfect Halloween costume, choosing a birth delivery method is probably the last thing on most Yale women’s minds. But according to four midwives who spoke at the Yale Women’s Center Monday night, it is never too early to start planning. |
Yale Daily News |
October 21, 2008 |
One-third of births attended at Palomar Medical Center attended by midwives
Tatiana Sanchez was 8 centimeters dilated and having rapid contractions as midwife Kelly Walsh coached her along. |
Today's Local News |
October 17, 2008 |
Milbank Report: Evidenced-Based Maternity Care
A new report released this week by Childbirth Connection reveals a path toward improved birth outcomes and added value for payers through Mother-Friendly maternity care practices. |
Childbirth Connection |
October 10, 2008 |
Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women
Midwife-led care confers benefits for pregnant women and their babies and is recommended. |
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |
October 8, 2008 |
Midwives
In the United States, women's choices once were limited to an obstetrician or a knowledgeable family doctor. But in recent years midwives became another alternative for women with low-risk, uncomplicated pregnancies. |
Kidshealth.org |
October 8, 2008 |
Local midwife honored
Although midwifery is a widely used practice in the rest of the world, very few births in the U-S use a midwife. During National midwifery week memorial hospital in Carthage is honoring a local midwife. |
WGEM (NBC) |
October 6, 2008 |
Midwifery in the United States & Canada
No one knows when midwifery became an official profession, but there's no doubt that midwives have been around for about as long as people have been around.
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MedHunters.com |
October 6, 2008 |
Nurse-Midwife Week
This TV news story profiles midwives in Florida. |
WCJB TV20 News |
October 7, 2008 |
Midwife strives to give best care
Much of Susan Hernandez's job is built around trust. She became a midwife 10 years ago to help women make lifelong health care decisions. |
Des Moines Register |
October 1, 2008 |
Midwives may deliver more time, flexibility to childbirth
Fourteen years ago, certified nurse midwife Rita Barron became the first midwife to earn privileges to deliver babies at Kaweah Delta Hospital. "It took years and years of asking physicians," Barron said. "I think there's just a lot of misunderstanding of what midwives do." |
Visalia Times-Delta |
September 29, 2008 |
Scott Depot woman blazes new ground as midwife
For centuries, the term midwife has described a woman "with woman" at birth. Today, it indicates a philosophy of care that focuses on the specific needs of women, offering a variety of options, and minimizes unnecessary intervention, according to Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) Angelita Nixon. |
The Putnam Standard |
September 22, 2008 |
The Midwife on a Mission
An 81 year-old grandmother runs one of the most successful birthing clinics in the nation in the city with the worst infant mortality rate. Wyatt Andrews reports.
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CBS Evening News |
September 9, 2008 |
Midwives Today
The ancient profession of helping women deliver babies has evolved and adapted to modern demands and concerns. In New Hampshire, this is especially true. |
New Hampshire Public Radio |
August 25, 2008 |
Certified nurse midwife comes home
On Sept. 8, Auburn Obstetrics & Gynecology, a new practice owned and operated by Auburn Memorial Hospital, will open at 143 North St., Auburn. Tracy, a certified nurse midwife, will join Drs. Loren Van Riper, Mary M. Wilsch and Allison Loi in providing a full range of services to area women.
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Auburn Citizen |
August 26, 2008 |
Passport alert affects ‘parteras'
They Say They Were Born in the U.S.A. The State Department Says Prove It
Two stories cover the U.S. State Department's policy that assumes that midwives provided 15,000 South Texans with fraudulent birth certificates. As a result, the State Department is now denying the passport applications of many of these people.
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Brownsville Herald,
Wall Street Journal |
August 23 and
August 11, 2008 |
I Want My Midwife
The list of OC hospitals that allow midwife-assisted births just got shorter—but moms-to-be
and midwives aren’t taking it lying down. |
OC Weekly
(Orange County, CA) |
July 25, 2008 |
Birthing center delivers options
An alternative to hospital and home deliveries, the North Charleston center is a compromise for mothers who have a natural birth plan yet want accessibility to emergency care should complications arise.
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The Post & Courier (Charleston, SC) |
July 21, 2008 |
Midwives Return to Austin Hospital
After a six-year absence from Austin hospitals, a traditional midwife practice will begin next month at one local hospital. |
Austin American-Statesman |
July 16, 2008 |
What do they really do?
Making sense of services for new and expecting parents. (See pages 30-33) |
Washington Parent |
July 2008 |
| Birthing center celebrates decade of special deliveries
Mothers-to-be at the Cambridge Birth Center can consume the customary ice chips during delivery, but have also been known to try candied apples, yogurt, even granola. |
Boston Globe |
June 29, 2008 |
Raising care, lowering cost
An east Tulsa clinic is providing personalized care for women with low-risk pregnancies. |
Tulsa Word |
June 27, 2008 |
Midwives Open Reunion Women's Health & Birth Center in Kingwood
Certified nurse-midwives Polly Logan and Janet Little have opened Reunion Women's Health & Birth Center. |
Kingwood Connection (Texas) |
June 26, 2008 |
Water Babies
In the Rio Grande Valley, the Holy Family Services Birth Center is the only place that offers birth in water, midwife Michelle Benfield said.
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Valley Morning Star |
May 21, 2008 |
Childbirth Choices
A video profiling women's birth options. |
Parents TV |
May 2008 |
Certified Nurse-Midwives: Practical Solutions to Primary Dilemmas
Struggling with ways to decrease costs, optimize productivity, and maintain healthy outcomes foryour female clientele? Discover the solution that is already working at many community health centers. |
Community Health Forum |
2008 |
Midwives work to increase acceptance, popularity of their services
It's extremely gratifying to guide and support a woman through her pregnancy and the birth of her baby, said certified nurse-midwife Rachel Sieman. |
Originally published in the Vindicator (Youngstown, Ohio)
Posted on Independent.com |
April 11, 2008 |
Midwives in the mainstream
"More and more mothers-to-be are having babies their way, with the help of a midwife." A profile of midwifery in Texas. |
Star Telegram |
March 31, 2008 |
Nurse-midwives collaborate with OB/GYN team
Women who choose to have their babies under a midwife’s care will find their needs fully met at the Paul and Judy Andrews Women’s Hospital. |
Star Telegram |
March 25, 2008 |
Group meetings helpful for moms during pregnancy
Nurse-midwives at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston start a CenteringPregnancy program. |
Baylor College of Medicine |
March 20, 2008 |
Women's health: Holistic approach on Friendly Isle
Joan Thompson, CNM works at a center that embraces a unique model of women’s health care through family-friendly care and education. |
Molokai Times |
March 12, 2008 |
First of It's Kind Birthing Center Unveiled in Lowcountry
A profile of
Lesley Rathbun, CNM's birth center, Charleston Birth Place. |
Live 5 News |
March 11, 2008 |
Choosing A Midwife - A Primer for Moms-to-Be
An interview with Leslie Ludka, CNM, Senior Technical Advisor about common questions and concerns related to choosing a midwife. |
Metropolitian Mama |
March 8, 2008 |
| Oakland male midwife is one of 3 in state
A profile of Patrick Thornton, CNM of Squirrel Hill, PA. |
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
February 4, 2008 |
Poirier's Path Takes Her Home
Roberta Poirier, CNM, recipient of
one of 11 “real heroes” by the Chippewa Valley chapter of the American Red Cross |
Chippewa.com |
January 30, 2008 |
Birth Centers 101
An interview with Cynthia Flynn, CNM, newly elected president of the American Association of Birth Centers. |
Metropolitian Mama |
January 24, 2008 |
Making Childbirth Safer in the Developing World
A profile of Lynn Sibley, CNM’s work to introduce Home Based Life Saving Skills in the developing world. |
Emory Nursing |
Fall 2007 |
| Ann Pleshette Murphy, parenting contributor for Good Morning America, recommends certified nurse-midwives in Good DIY Deliveries: More Women Go It Alone. |
Good Morning America |
January 7, 2008 |
Comforts of Home
The two-woman, bilingual midwifery practice launched on Oct. 1 as a service of Boulder Women’s Care, a medical practice on the Boulder Community Foothills Hospital campus. |
Longmont Times Call
Boulder, CO |
December 18, 2007 |
| South Coast Midwifery, a Birth Center in Irvine, CA owned by Lorri Walker, RNC, NP, CNM hosted a private screening of The Business of Being Born with special guest Ricki Lake. The event and story was featured in the Orange County Register and Daily Pilot newspapers. |
Orange County Register and Daily Pilot |
November 9, 2007 |
Midwifery Growing in National Popularity
While pregnant women across the country visit doctors every day, many don't realize that an alternative to doctor's care, midwifery, is growing in popularity. |
BYU NewsNet |
October 11, 2007 |
Landstuhl's group approach to prenatal care
"I got more time with every patient as opposed to the 15-minute visits once a month. We had hours and hours together.”said Air Force Lt. Col. Mary Claire Wahl, a certified nurse midwife who led the group. |
Stars & Stripes |
October 15, 2007 |
The modern-day midwife: Ranks of obstetrician alternatives are shrinking, partly due to high malpractice claims, insurance costs
According to the American Public Health Association, "with its focus on pregnancy as a normal life event and health promotion for women of all ages, the midwifery model of care is an appropriate alternative or complement to the medical approach to childbirth." |
Floridatoday.com |
August 21, 2007 |
Study Finds Group Prenatal Care Results in Improved Perinatal Outcomes Over Standard Care at No Additional Cost
New Haven, Conn. — Group prenatal care can improve pregnancy outcomes in the areas of reducing preterm births and increasing breastfeeding initiation, psychosocial function and patient satisfaction without incurring any additional costs over standard care according to a study published in the August 2007 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. |
Press Release |
August 7, 2007 |
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Medically Unnecessary Cesarean Section
By Ellen Catalinotto, RN, CNM
Does scheduling a medically unnecessary cesarean section guarantee an easy delivery and a perfect baby? |
American Journal of Nursing |
July 2007 |
Do-It-Yourself Delivery
Washington Post Examines Practice of Unassisted Childbirth in US Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA Mairi Breen Rothman, spokesperson for the American College of Nurse-Midwives, said that it is critical for women to have expert guidance during labor...
Click here to read the online discussion.
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The Washington Post |
July 31, 2007 |
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Midwives approved to prescribe Medication
Pennsylvania is the sole remaining state to bar certified nurse-midwives from writing prescriptions for their patients. Now, that barrier is about to fall. |
Post-gazette.com |
July 19, 2007 |
A tradition of service:
Midwifery school builds on founder's legacy
Starting in 1925, Mary Breckinridge and her Frontier Nursing Service became icons in Eastern Kentucky, riding horses across the mountains to deliver babies and bring healthcare to those who needed it most. |
Kentucky.com
Lexington Hearald-Leader |
June 25, 2007 |
High Deductible Plans Cost more for Materinity Care
The first study of its kind has found that families typically pay much more out of pocket for maternity care under the new high-deductible health insurance plans paired with health savings accounts that have been heavily touted by President Bush and others. |
The Washington Post |
June 13, 2007 |
Maternity Care Cost
The program discusses recent findings of a Kaiser study on maternity cost variance between traditional and consumer-driven health insurance plans. The show also examines the role of economic pressures and societal trends in maternity care.
Guests include:
• Leslie Cragin - certified nurse midwife and associate clinical professor at UCSF's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
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KQED Public Radio
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June 13, 2007
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A Labor without End
Ruth Lubic defied doctors to champion midwifery and change the way American women give birth. In the last four decades, she has been determined to make sure poor and minority women are given that same care and nurturing during pregnancy and labor. |
The Washington Post |
May 27, 2007 |
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Discussion on "A Labor without End" Article
Ruth you are amazing. Thank you for all that you have done and our doing for women's and children's rights! .... |
The Washington Post - Post Magazine |
May 29, 2007 |
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Midwives Put New Face on Ancient Profession
More than 2,000 certified nurse midwives are in Chicago for the 52nd Annual Conference of the American College of Nurse Midwives. |
Chicago Public Radio |
May 25, 2007 |
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Salem Hospital Sends Midwives Packing
Midwives at the Salem Women's Clinic have become popular among expectant parents in the Salem area. But four midwives at the clinic are being forced to end their practices at the end of June. The problem is a conflict between Salem Hospital and the doctor that oversees the midwives. The hospital says the case is isolated to one physician: Doctor Elizabeth Harmon. Now, she's filed an anti-trust lawsuit. And as unusual as that might sound, as Colin Fogarty reports, midwifery experts say the case is not unique. |
Oregon Public Broadcasing |
May 30, 2007 |
Midwives and Local Maternity Care
Midwives provide birthing services to a wide spectrum of expectant mothers, from those in under-served communities to families seeking alternatives to the conventional hospital deliveries. But some activists are now sounding alarms, after two local birthing centers announced they're closing their doors. We explore the local infrastructure for expecting families. |
WAMU 88.5FM |
May 03, 2007 |
Getting Ahead: Department of Labor
MIDWIFE CHRIS BONTRAGER of Silver Spring will never forget her first day on the job. "I was starting my training at a hospital in Fredericksburg, and a woman was having her ninth baby. She was nine centimeters dilated when she arrived and she had the baby 30 minutes later. I thought, 'Birth can be pretty simple sometimes.' I didn't even really have a chance to get nervous."
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Express, Washington, DC
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February 14, 2007 |
