If U would like to add links to this page, please send URL address and Summary information to jlh for consideration! http://www.enb.org.uk/ English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting home page http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/whyMidwives.html A Direct-Entry Midwife Explains Her Training Greetings from a real, live midwife! How trained are we? It depends. I am a direct-entry midwife. I got my training the time-honored way: through an apprenticeship. I have augmented that training with Carla Hartley's Ancient Art Midwifery Institute Midwifery Home Study Course. I do not have a degree, nor do I particularly want one. Birth is not a medical thing. It is not an illness, and there is no pathology involved. Doctors (and their recent counterparts, Certified Nurse Midwives) are trained to look for what's wrong, and have a very hard time understanding that birth is a natural process, one that we were created to do. (It doesn't matter what religion one is, either. I think we can all agree that whoever/whatever created us knew what they were doing!) Funny thing is, after all that training, college, etc., the vast majority of both doctors and CNMs haven't got a clue how to deliver a breech, or twins! (That's why many of the major hospitals, such as Mt. Sinai in Chicago, have hired Ina May Gaskin, a direct-entry midwife from the Farm Commune in Tennessee, to come in and teach the interns how to deliver a breech, or twins.) Most doctors only get one to two hours of nutrition training in all of their med-school time, but I have spent hundreds of hours studying nutrition so that I can help the women I serve avoid most of the pregnancy complications that doctors create through bad nutritional counseling!!! http://www.swmed.edu/home_pages/parkland/midwifery/faqmdwf.html Are Certified Nurse-Midwives Legal? Do they only do home births? These are some of the most commonly asked questions about nurse-midwifery. Nurse-Midwives can legally practice in all fifty states. Although they can practice in homes, birth centers or hospitals, the overwhelming majority attend births in hospitals. They are well recognized by federal and state governments. For example, they are eligible for Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement according to federal guidelines. Most private insurance groups will directly reimburse for nurse-midwifery care. Many HMO's contract with, or hire directly Certified Nurse-Midwives. Certified Nurse-Midwives have been practicing in the state of Texas for more than 25 years. Since 1987, there has been a group of Certified Nurse-Midwives providing care at Parkland Memorial Hospital. http://www.unmc.edu/Olson/cnmcnp.htm Nurse-Midwifery Nurse-Practitioner Services of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology affliated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Health System http://www.pitt.edu/~bruchad/midwife.htm WomancareSM Midwifery Service Oakland Office (412) 641-4200, Ext 1 http://www.midwife.org/find/ Find a Nurse-Midwife... There are nearly 1000 nurse-midwifery practices listed in this database. Although there are over 2500 practice sites in the US, these practices are participants in a new venture that also makes this information available via a toll-free telephone call (1-888-MIDWIFE) and via our alliance with BabyCenter.com, a leading Internet source of information for new and expectant parents. http://www.commerce.state.ut.us The Utah Department of Commerce is the licensing and registration agency for Utah's professional and corporate community. Business registrations, professional licensing, consumer protection and education, oversight of public utilities and the monitoring of the real estate and securities industries all fall within the scope of the Department. http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/mwtype/mwtypeintro.html Types of Midwives: A Discussion http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/acnmhome.html About the ACNM and Homebirth http://galaxy.tradewave.com/galaxy/Medicine/Health-Occupations/Nursing/Specialties/Midwifery.html Midwifery (Specialties) http://members.tripod.com/~cnms/ Hello and welcome to my website where I will share with you my experiences on the route to become a Certifed Nurses-Midwife (CNM). I'll talk about the classes I'm taking, the books I'm reading, the people I meet, the websites I love to visit and the mailing lists I'm subscribed to. Come join me on my journey and see how a mom of three boys (yep, I said it THREE!) makes it along the path of midwifery. http://www.ncah.com/ Nursing Careers Allied Health - Internet Edition. The fortnightly guide to the best opportunities for nurses and allied health professionals.