Sentences with phrase «professional midwives»

And it's not clear that certified professional midwives provide care that is either high value or cost effective.

But certified professional midwives take issue with those numbers, citing other studies that show home birth is just as safe as hospital birth.

Certified professional midwives follow a different track altogether and attend mostly home births.

That might be because the category of certified professional midwives has existed for just 20 years.

Likewise, numerous studies have demonstrated that a planned home birth with a trained professional midwife is as safe as or safer for low - risk mothers and babies than birth in a hospital.

Our solution, at Midwife International, is to train midwives who are equipped to work in resource - constrained regions where maternal and child mortality is high and the need for professional midwives is greatest.

Dr. Kai Parker is a Board Certified Naturopathic Physician and NARM Certified Professional Midwife who specializes in Naturopathic Medicine, Holistic Women's Healthcare, Homebirth Midwifery, and Naturopathic Pediatrics.

This would refer to the certified professional midwife credentialed by the NARM and soon to be licensed in Indiana.

The North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) offers the credential of Certified Professional Midwife at the national level.

I became a Certified Professional Midwife through NARM (The North American Registry of Midwives) in 1996.

According to Greenfield, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives does have a certification process but many states don't recognize it.

All home births involving certified professional midwives across the United States (98 % of cohort) and Canada, 2000.

The Big Push Campaign runs one of the most visible drives for licensing of CPMs (certified professional midwives also known as direct entry midwives).

According to a recent piece in The Washington Post, certified professional midwife Karen Carr boasted in the wake of her guilty plea in connection with the entirely preventable death of a baby in her care, her phone is ringing off the hook with women wanting to hire her.

I noted that the same discord exists between certified nurse midwives and certified professional midwives today.

Many professional midwives learn by apprenticing with more experienced colleagues.

And while a major U.S. professional midwife group in 1994 established a certification process for midwives, only 200 nationwide have received the certification.

Now, Shannon - McNulty and her husband are relying on word - of - mouth referrals to find one of the estimated two or three dozen remaining professional midwives in Illinois not affected by the order.

So women such as Shannon - McNulty look to so - called professional midwives, who are not nurses and thus unlicensed in Illinois, to help them achieve their vision of a natural birth process.

Willamette Birth is the midwifery practice of Corvallis midwife Ash Johnsdottir, who is a licensed & certified professional midwife serving women & families in Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Philomath, Lebanon, Junction City, Sweet Home, & surrounding areas.

Finding a midwife to assist in a home birth is a little more difficult than finding Certified Nurse Midwives or Certified Professional Midwives due to the differences in state laws.

She serves as Policy Analyst to the Midwives and Mothers in Action (MAMA) Campaign, a national coalition of six midwifery - related organizations advocating in the U.S. Congress for increased access for women across the country to Certified Professional Midwife services and high - quality, high - value maternity care.

Mary Rainer, a licensed professional midwife with Birth Blossoms, says that many parents swear their baby is calmer after using gripe water, though she attributes it to another cause.

Caroline and Jacqueline are both California Licensed Midwives / Certified Professional Midwives who received clinical training through an apprenticeship model and didactic training from the National Midwifery Institute.

I worked as hard and as fast as I could to get my CPM (Certified Professional Midwife from the National Association of Registered Midwives) and my Texas License to practice midwifery.

She has been a midwife since 1994 and she became a licensed midwife through the Seattle Midwifery School Challenge process in California, after becoming a certified professional midwife through the National Registry of Midwives.

In summer 2000 I interviewed the first four graduates from the new CASA School for Professional Midwives, and in summer 2001 the three graduates from the second graduating class.

Anita Woods is a Certified Professional Midwife providing nurturing homebirth midwifery care for your body, mind & soul.

SETTING: All home births involving certified professional midwives across the United States (98 % of cohort) and Canada, 2000.

Midwifery is basically a system of wellness care given by professional midwives to women and infants during the childbearing year, and in many other countries midwives are the primary care givers in maternity systems with better neonatal mortality rates than ours.

Thank you for continuing to help in the effort to license Certified Professional Midwives in Kentucky.