Two Roads Into Midwifery: The Nurse-Midwifery Route and The Direct-Entry Route

Spotlight on the Practitioner:

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/