While obstetrics is an ancient profession that exists in almost every known culture, thrives in most developed countries, and is the central pillar of obstetrics in countries with the best mother-child outcomes, midwifery in the United States has suffered social and political setbacks. Midwives effectively and safely accompanied the vast majority of births in the United States until the 1930s, when the place of birth was moved from home to hospital and midwives were replaced by medical obstetricians. The United States is unique in the developed world when it comes to criminalizing midwifery rather than encouraging collaboration between midwives and physicians and successfully integrating midwifery into the mainstream motherhood model. Contact information for the Coalition for Illinois Midwifery www.illinoismidwifery.org: Email: illinoismidwifery@gmail.com I have students of all kinds following me for days – all kinds of residents, lab technicians, paramedics, nurses. Every practitioner in the room can watch me support a woman`s right to informed consent/declination. I don`t need a piece of paper to model the midwifery nursing model. State midwives from the Wyoming Board of Midwifery are certified as Certified Midwives (LMs). midwifery.wyo.gov Contact Information: 2001 Capitol Ave, Room 104 Cheyenne, WY 82002 Phone: 307-777-3628 Fax: 307-777-3508 Email: Maxine.Hernandez1@wyo.gov Florida Friends of Midwives www.flmidwifery.org Contact Information: Florida Friends of Midwives P.O. Box 370932 Miami, FL 33137 Telephone: 800-925-1014 Email: info@flmidwifery.org Delaware Department of State Professional Regulation Division Midwifery Practitioners dpr.delaware.gov/boards/medicalpractice/midwifery.shtml Contact Information: Professional Regulation Department Cannon Building, Suite 203-861 Silver Lake Blvd. Dover, FROM 19904 Telephone: (302) 744-4500 Fax: (302) 739-2711 Email: customerservice.dpr@state.de.us Mon church is Massachusetts. My clientele is mainly urban and rural middle class and poor. It includes young and old, white and colored women, the super-rich, and the homeless.
The midwife giving birth at home needs marketing, not restrictions. Texans for midwifery www.texansformidwifery.org/ No state has lifted or eased restrictions. Only Minnesota, Montana, Virginia and Wisconsin allow midwives without restricting women. 13 states do not allow midwives and therefore do not restrict women`s choices – Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon (voluntary), Pennsylvania, Tennessee. 7 states do not allow home midwives but make them illegal – Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky (no permits issued since 1975), Nebraska, North Carolina and South Dakota. Michigan just got a license and the rules and regulations haven`t been written yet. West Virginia is allowed, but I couldn`t find their regulations. Below is a list of resources and information about midwifery laws in each state or territory in the United States. For additional resources or changes to our current contacts, please email the Alliance of Midwives at healthpolicy@mana.org. To maintain accuracy, and due to the changing nature of organizational representatives, we limit our lists to general groups rather than individual contacts. I do not agree that “midwifery is accessible to practitioners who choose to be socially and financially marginalized. Privileged.
I am not, and the midwives I work with are not privileged, socially or financially marginalized. I agree that expensive, mandatory and elitist training makes midwifery a privileged and financially marginalized career that is beyond the reach of poor women. Illinois Council of Certified Professional Midwives illinoismidwives.org www.facebook.com/Illinois-Council-of-Certified-Professional-Midwives-219295244816647/ info@illinoismidwifery.org Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) have made significant progress in state approval in recent years. Below are several sources that list the legal status of CPMs in the United States. Note that several of these sources indicate differently the number of states allowed or regulated. There are states where it is theoretically possible to obtain a license, but in fact impossible. Therefore, some of the following lists include all places where regulations exist to allow CPMs and the only list states of others where this actually happens. CfM is committed to approving CPMs in all 50 U.S. states and territories. The approval improves access to CPMs, in some states, for third-party reimbursement through insurance or Medicaid, and is an important step in integrating CPMs into a community`s health care system. Approval also paves the way for public accountability that protects consumers.