Statement of The Big Push for Midwives Campaign on the AMA Scope of Practice...
At its November 2005 Interim Meeting, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates adopted Resolution 814 titled, “Limited Licensure Health Care Provider Training and Certification...
View ArticleCertified Professional Midwives (CPMs) Legal Status By State
(Click the red map markers below to open/close the PushState info. May not function properly on an iPad.) click responsive COLORADOCPMs are legally authorized to practice. :-)Year law enacted: 1993...
View ArticleHonor Your Midwife for Labor Day!
In commemoration of Labor Day 2013, The Big Push for Midwives Campaign has launched the Honor Your Midwife for Labor Day fundraising project, which will give thousands of families across the United...
View ArticleHappy Happy New Year!
..so let’s say we get out there and do more in 2014 There’s still time to donate We’re getting close to our target goal to help keep on the lights here in 2014 at The Big Push for Midwives with the New...
View ArticleQ&A with The Big Push for Midwives
Submit your question to The Big Push for Midwives. QUESTION: The American Medical Association (AMA) (along with other doctor trade organizations) has taken a stance diametrically opposed to home birth...
View ArticleBig Medicine Plays Its Only Card: The Ace of Scaremongering
For those playing along at home, as soon as The Big Push for Midwives announced the “Largest US Study to Date Finds Home Birth to Be a Safe Option for Most Women” based on newly released research...
View ArticleAMA lets go of impeding access to cost-related information for direct and...
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released on April 9 the Medicare billing information for physician providers after decades of litigation by the American Medical Association...
View ArticleThank you
Thank you SO much all you amazing Pushers fighting to remove barriers that deny mothers, babies, and families access to high-quality, safe, and cost-effective midwifery care and increased access to...
View ArticleYou can read it in The New York Times.
Birth activists were all pretty happy this week reading about the new U.K. National Health Service NICE guidelines recommending birth at home with a midwife, or in a midwife-unit for first-time...
View ArticlePushGirl Talk
This study–published in Pediatrics Jan 2015–looked at 2 million kids, and found that children delivered by cesarean delivery had significantly increased risk of asthma, systemic connective tissue...
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