Do you have questions about the midwifery profession? Want to know how to get and keep and apprenticeship? Do you want to share the trials and tribulations of being a midwifery student with other students? Our newsgroup is moderated by a Assistant Midwife Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot and Licensed Midwife Shelly Girard who have between them over 50 years experience. Join today!
SoCalBirth.com-Aspiring Midwives Group
Two Roads Into Midwifery: The Nurse-Midwifery Route and The Direct-Entry Route
Spotlight on the Practitioner: The Spiritual Calling of Direct Entry Midwife Shelly Girard by Cordelia S. Hanna-Cheruiyot, CCE, CBA, MPH, CHES
Coming soon: Spotlight on the Practitioner: A Certified Nurse-Midwife's Journey by Cordelia S. Hanna-Cheruiyot, CCE, CBA, MPH, CHES
Opportunities for the Study of Midwifery:
- Advanced Doula/Midwife Assistant and Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Trainings Taught by Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot, MPH, CHES, CCE, CBA
- Midwifery Organizations: U.S., Canada & Europe
- Getting Started: Suggestions on How an Aspiring Midwife Can Begin Her Journey - Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- How To Know if You're A Midwife (A Quiz)
- Becoming a Certifed Professional Midwife (National Certification) or California Licensed Midwife
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Resources for Aspiring Midwives (Study Groups, Books,
Organizations) - View California Licensed Direct-Entry Midwifery Law (California Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993) and California Nurse-Midwifery Law (Business and Professions Code)
- Midwifery-Related Websites
- What's Happening in Southern California: Classes, Events, Workshops for Aspiring Midwives and Doulas
- Southern California Birth Support Providers (homebirth and hospital midwives and birth centers and more).
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Causes and Calls to Action
Haiti Update: What has UNFPA Done for Mothers?
UNFPA Rushes to Save Haiti’s Mothers
Help women in Haiti. Donate now. Get Involved.
Dear Maternal Health Advocates,
We know you care about women and infants survival in Haiti and around the world. Like ours, we know your heart is breaking watching the suffering of Haitian women, infants and children. We invite you to take compassionate action. Support organizations who are focusing on the needs of pregnant women and infants in Haiti.
Watch the "NOW on PBS" documentary about the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other organizations, including Family Care International (sponsor of the Women Deliver Conference on Maternal Mortality), who are on the ground in Haiti, saving the lives of mothers and infants. The film crew was filming the organizations who are working to save the lives of mothers during childbirth when the earthquake struck. The documentary shows Traditional Birth Attendant and midwife training in Haiti and community-engagement in ensuring safe childbirth. Very inspiring!
UNFPA needs our support! They are supplying safe delivery and reproductive health kits to still-standing hospitals, field hospitals, and mobile clinics so that midwives, doctors and nurses have the medicines and supplies needed to protect the lives of women and their newborns.
Did you know? Taxpayers can count charitable contributions made for relief efforts in Haiti on either their 2009 or 2010 tax returns. Please donate if you can (scroll down and click on the link to do so).
Thank you for taking action to help save mothers and babies!
A Message from Anika Rahman
President, Americans for UNFPA:
It fills my heart with joy to see the American response to the crisis in Haiti. As the President of Americans for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, I know our generosity sends a message that Americans step-up for those in need no matter where they live around the world.
We understand that even in the face of crisis, women continue to give birth. Sadly, for women in Haiti, it means that many will give birth in cars and tents, on park benches and bare ground, and under blazing sun with little water. Those who are lucky will manage to get to overcrowded hospitals or makeshift maternity wards with intermittent electricity and minimal equipment and supplies.
One of UNFPA’s top priorities is protecting the lives of mothers and their newborns. UNFPA is supplying safe delivery and reproductive health kits to still-standing hospitals, field hospitals, and mobile clinics. The kits contain life-saving medicines, supplies, and equipment for sterile deliveries, Caesarean surgeries, and treatment of other obstetric complications. In coordination with partners UNFPA is working to get the kits to all health facilities that need them, so that doctors and nurses have the medicines and supplies needed to protect the lives of women and their newborns.
UNFPA and partners have initiated mobile clinic activities in 250 spontaneous settlements. Additionally, 20,000 dignity kits have been delivered to the border area and are being transported to Port-au-Prince and other areas that have been impacted by the earthquake. The kits contain items such as sanitary napkins, diapers, anti-bacterial soap, and other hygiene and cleaning supplies that allow women to live with dignity.
Taxpayers can count charitable contributions made for relief efforts in Haiti on either their 2009 or 2010 tax returns as long as they are made before March 1, 2010.
But, our work has just begun. If we stand together, we can rebuild Haiti to be stronger than it was before. I thank you for your support in saving the lives of Haiti’s mothers.
PS. Change doesn’t happen over night. Please consider joining our monthly donor program and lending your sustained support to UNFPA’s life-saving work.
Thank you!
The Big Push for Midwives
If you are an advocate for mothers and infants, you may be concerned about the poor outcomes for mothers and infants in the United States. But there is a solution: midwifery care!
The Big Push for Midwives Campaign is a nationally coordinated campaign to advocate for regulation and licensure of Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and to push back against the attempts of the American Medical Association Scope of Practice Partnership to deny American families access to legal midwifery care.
Through its work with state-level advocates and coalitions, the Big Push for Midwives is helping to forge a new model of U.S. maternity care built on expanding access to out-of-hospital maternity care and CPMs, who provide affordable, quality, community-based care that is proven to reduce costly and preventable interventions as well as the rate of low-birth weight and premature births.
To watch The Big Push Campaign's inspiring video on U-Tube, click below (it is only 4 minutes in length):
BigPushTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BigPushTube
For more information, go to:
http://www.thebigpushformidwives.org/
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