The document promotes collaborative care
between maternity care professionals including CNMs, CMs, CPMs, and licensed midwives working at birth centers but specifically excludes home birth.
We also sponsor networking and training opportunities
for maternity care professionals, including our annual Mother - Friendly Childbirth Symposium, The Birthing Justice Forum, Annual Maternal - Child Health Advocate Awards Recognition, and seminars to support perinatal professional collaboration and continuing education.
At the first Summit, delegates agreed that healthy women with healthy pregnancies who desire a planned home birth should be able to access
a maternity care professional within an organized system that provides transfer to hospital - based services when needed.
The PATTCh board members are a group of psychotherapists, childbirth educators, doulas, researchers, and academicians who are dedicated to bringing together like - minded individuals to educate childbearing women and families and
maternity care professionals; develop effective prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care practices to prevent or reduce traumatic birth and post-birth PTSD; and identify and promote effective treatments to enhance recovery.
The Improving Access to Maternity Care Act, which has already passed the House but has not yet been introduced in the Senate, would require further data collection by the Department of Health and Human Services about which geographical areas need
these maternity care professionals and provide student loan forgiveness for ob - gyn work there — a benefit that is currently offered for dentists and primary care physicians in some underserved communities.