If U would like to add links to this page, please send URL address and Summary information to jlh for consideration! http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Libraries/HCRL/CommunityDB/MCNS.html Midwifery Coalition of Nova Scotia ~ Society of consumers and health care professionals who are working to establish midwifery as a self-regulating profession. Their aims include education of public, promotion of and participation in development of midwifery legislation, support of the professional body of midwives, and liasons with other midwifery organizations. http://www.healthy.net/cims/ In 1996, after 2 years of meetings, approximately 25 prominent childbirth education organizations and 30 midwives, physicians, nurses, childbirth educators, labor support providers, lactation consultants, postpartum care providers, and consumer advocates created the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative. http://www.birthpsychology.com/birthscene/initiative.html The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative The First Consensus Initiative of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) Mission The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is a coalition of individuals and national organizations with concern for the care and well-being of mothers, babies, and families. Our mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. This evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model focuses on prevention and wellness as the alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~maternity/ New beginnings Welcome to the Maternity Coalition's homepage on Vicnet. We hope to keep you up to date with hot news, people, events, media features, recent research issues, book reviews, focus groups, trends in other countries and much more! How can we do this? Woman power, that's how! http://www.freeyellow.com/members3/kcnpnm/ Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives Notes on Advanced Nursing * * * http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Health/Midwifery/index.htm MIDWIFERY COALITION OF NOVA SCOTIA The Midwifery Coalition believes that midwifery provides the highest standard of care for mothers, babies and families. We believe it is an important part of maternity care and is a choice that should be available to families in Nova Scotia. We are working to have midwifery accepted as part of Nova Scotia's health system and to have midwifery care covered by MSI.