The Big Push for Midwives Campaign 2009

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign empowers midwife advocates and moms/dads groups as they promote increased access to out-of-hospital maternity care and the Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) who are specially trained to provide it.

Our dedicated campaigners, or "Pushers" as they are affectionately known, help to educate the people in power (at the insurance companies, in the hospital associations, in the Statehouses, and on Capitol Hill) about the reduced costs and improved outcomes associated with using out-of-hospital maternity care and Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs), who are specially trained to provide it.

The Big Push campaign works to widely share the stories of U.S. citizens who choose CPMs as their maternity care providers and the multiple benefits to society that come from fully integrating out-of-hospital birth and Certified Professional Midwives into the health care systems of our states.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• midwives
• home birth
• homebirth
• midwife
• birth
• birth center
• pregnancy
• c-section
• cesarean section
• cesarean surgery
• VBAC
• health reform
• maternity care
• obstetrician
• AMA
• SOPP
• common ground

[BigPushTube]

6-27-09 DATA UPDATE:

The CDC reports that approximately 85% of all U.S. women will carry a pregnancy and given birth by the age of 44, which means that the majority of American women will personally experience a maternity care system in crisis.

[kaylachristiansmom]

This campagin is one of the reasons that I am now on a path to become a CNM. After dismal birth experiances with my two children, I wanted to be part of the change that needs to take place for the sake of all.

[alwayshayla]

I want to become a midwife nurse, god watch over me through this journey!

[knsmith78]

@DrSandmann - Perhaps you don't intend on expressing yourself in such a defensive manner. The facts speak for themselves. It is the litigious climate coupled with the culture of 'non-responsibility' for one's own health care and non-disbursal of statistics and research which have led to the maternity crisis today. As a matter of fact, the simple irony in your statement is that we have educated ourselves - hence why we are seeking a solution in normalcy through midwifery.

[DrSandmann]

BigPushTube, your assessment of the problem with childbirth in America is erroneous. The problem isn't with OBGYNs and hospitals

America is an unhealthy population.  Obesity is an epidemic in this country, and the hypertension and diabetes associated with it are rampant among pregnant women. These conditions cause major complications with pregnancy, labor & delivery.

Also, Americans have less access to prenatal care because of insurance reasons.

Educate yourself a little more, will you?

[Naomidoula]

Great video! I'm sharing it with my friends! I am a birth doula and aspiring home birth CPM.

[jaraahrabi]

Great work. This motivates me to continue working for better maternity care.

[wendyrful1]

Great video showing the need for Certified Professional Midwives in our country, in every state.

[eallemann]

This is a great summary of why we need more access to certified professional midwives and out of hospital birth. The lives of babies and their mothers depends on it!