Midwife Connection (ACNM Blog)http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor If you aren’t participating in the ACNM Benchmarking Project, what’s holding you back? Are you afraid that co...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1921&FormID=300by Guest Blogger Aubre Tompkins, CNM Aubre Tompkins, CNM, is in her second year as a midwife. She has been guest blogging about the lessons she’s l...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1766&FormID=300by Emily Hoger, SNM The practice of midwifery is inherently political. As midwives, we have many constraints on our time, but it is vitally important...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1652&FormID=300by Kimla McDonald, CNM, Guest Blogger One day, I may be a grandmother. I may see one of my children become a parent. If it is my daughter, I may want...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1494&FormID=300by Noreen Prokuski, CNM The six of us jump into our 4x4 trucks for a bone-rattling, bumper-car ride inching up the rocky, twisting pathways leading t...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1435&FormID=300Stephanie Assisi, 32, knew since college that when the time came, she’d want to try for a natural, drug-free birth with a midwife in attendance. But w...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1427&FormID=300by Angeline Fujioka, CNM, ACNM Technical Advisor, Department of Global Outreach Pervasive and dangerously silent human rights violations against wo...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1421&FormID=300As mavens of wellness, midwives are in a powerful position to help guide our clients (and ourselves) in making positive, proven choices that support n...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1412&FormID=300by Diana Spalding, CNM, DGH Communication Section The Division of Global Health is excited to begin contributing to the ACNM blog! We will let you ...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1398&FormID=300by Kathryn Kravetz Carr, CNM; Brielle Stoyke, CNM; and Jeni Poell, CNM Advocacy month is not just for August anymore! For years, members of the ACNM ...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1301&FormID=300by Guest Blogger Aubre Tompkins, CNM Aubre Tompkins, CNM, is beginning her second year as a midwife. She has been guest blogging about the lessons ...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1128&FormID=300by Judy Mendel, ACNM Communications Intern US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius followed in my footsteps. I was fortunate to vi...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1112&FormID=300 by ACNM Guest Blogger KC Bly, CNM, RN, WHNP This cartoon makes me chuckle. I admit it: it’s funny. But it’s funny because, like most humor, it r...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1041&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor It is often said that there is no perfect time to have a baby, but this rang especially true for Melicia Es...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=994&FormID=300by ACNM Guest Blogger Jennifer Williams, CNM Unless you’ve been living under a rock or have been on call 24/7 for the past couple of days, it’s unl...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=969&FormID=300by Sarah Darby, CNM, reposted with permission from Meandering Midwife "If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, Threatening the...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=391&FormID=300by Nancy Jo Reedy, CNM, MPH, FACNM Recently, a conversation about self-care on the ACNM clinical management listserv provided some food for thought...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=386&FormID=300by ACNM Guest Blogger Jennifer Williams, CNM When I was a little girl, I always thought there was a problem with our Nativity set. I could never fi...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=336&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor I think everyone does it on some level—you go home for the holidays and suddenly you feel like you’re 16 ag...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=333&FormID=300by ACNM Guest Blogger, Kimla McDonald, CNM “Please turn off that spotlight,” I asked the labor tech in the birth room as the baby’s head was crowning...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=274&FormID=300by Nancy Jo Reedy, CNM Last fall, we lost two influential cultural voices: Steve Jobs in October, and Andy Rooney in November. Both of these men l...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=265&FormID=300by Guest Blogger Aubre Tompkins, CNM Aubre Tompkins, CNM, is finishing up her first year as a midwife. She has been guest blogging about the lesson...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=261&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor Too often during the holidays, we use material goods to substitute for what really matters: our time and at...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=240&FormID=300by ACNM Guest Blogger KC Bly, CNM, RN, WHNP “They call you a midwife?” “Shouldn’t they call you a midhusband?” Awkward giggles. These are am...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=233&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor Today, November 17, is World Prematurity Day. And although the United States improved its prematurity rates f...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=232&FormID=300by ACNM Guest Blogger Jennifer Williams, CNM The media has been abuzz lately as the world’s population hits seven billion. In 1999, the world popul...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=230&FormID=300by ACNM Guest Blogger, Kimla McDonald, CNM Before I became a midwife, I studied design in my training as a landscape architect. I learned to look f...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=229&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month, ACNM and Barbara Hughes, CNM, are gearing up for a free resource-p...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=228&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor, and Christian Ornburn, CNM If you’re a midwifery student, you may not want to even think about trying to g...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=224&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor I love my job. It’s interesting, educational, fulfilling, and my boss is really understanding when my toddl...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=220&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor It’s fall, the leaves are blowing off the trees, and midwifery students are back in school juggling books, th...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=216&FormID=300by Guest Blogger Aubre Tompkins, CNM As clinicians we are often taught to distance ourselves and camouflage our emotions. I have a strong belief that...10/19/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=212&FormID=300by Jennifer Williams, CNM Right now across the country and the world, student midwives are learning all about this calling we love so very much. Ha...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=195&FormID=300Tip of the week by Cassie Moore, ACNM writer and editor Sometimes the answers to our big problems are so small and easy, they seem like they couldn’t...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=193&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor Recently, one of our members brought up the point that, after staying up for 24 hours (or longer!) while on...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=188&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor I regularly skim articles on Babble to see if they have any information mentioning midwives. Last week, I r...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=185&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Chances are, you know someone who has had breast cancer....http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=182&FormID=300by Kimla McDonald, CNM, Guest Blogger Two weeks ago my son started college. He is my second child, four years younger than his sister, so this proces...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=180&FormID=300Midwives: We’re talking with other professional societies about the use of Makena to prevent premature birth, and we need your input! Feel free to com...9/22/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=178&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor Every day around the world, 1000 women and 2000 babies die from causes that could be prevented if only they h...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=177&FormID=300by Aubre Tompkins, CNM Sitting down to write this piece, I traveled back to my first days as a brand new, shiny midwife. Luckily, as it has not been ...9/16/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=174&FormID=300by Eileen Ehudin Beard, CNM, FNP, MS, ACNM Senior Practice Advisor and Tina Johnson, CNM, ACNM Director of Professional Practice & Health Policy Va...9/13/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=173&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor In a recent post on Science & Sensibility, Hillary Boucher and Jeanette McCulloch discussed why birth profess...9/1/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=156&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor and Tina Johnson, CNM, ACNM Director of Professional Practice & Health Policy We’re adding a new feature to M...8/29/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=155&FormID=300by Kimla McDonald, CNM, Guest Blogger God bless you, Google, for bringing me to this Web site from a search for “Mary Breckinridge,” where I learne...8/26/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=151&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor Over the course of her 16-year career, Rebeca Barroso, CNM, has seen a lot of burnout and attrition among h...8/23/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=149&FormID=300Guest Post by MomsRising Last week, Moms Rising sent around a letter in response to Bill O’Reilly’s inflammatory commentary on the news that the Affo...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=147&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor If you read the spring issue of Quickening, ACNM’s quarterly member newsletter, you probably came across cert...8/16/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=146&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor One of my favorite aspects of my job is speaking with midwives and other health care professionals who are ...8/10/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=145&FormID=300by Kimla McDonald, CNM, Guest Blogger According to Amnesty International’s “Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA,” published...8/2/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=142&FormID=300by Lynneece Rooney, CNM, Region V ACNM Government Affairs Committee Representative August is Midwifery Advocacy month, which means that CNMs and CMs ...8/1/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=141&FormID=300by Lynneece Rooney, CNM, Region V ACNM Government Affairs Committee Representative August is Midwifery Advocacy Month, which means that CNMs and CM...7/19/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=140&FormID=300 by Kimla McDonald, CNM, Guest Blogger “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Botany o...6/24/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=137&FormID=300This is a big week for midwives, women, and infants around the world. Once every three years, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) holds ...6/20/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=136&FormID=300by Holly Powell Kennedy, ACNM President (pictured left), and Melissa Avery, ACNM Past President (pictured right) The International Confederation of M...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=126&FormID=300By Kimla McDonald, CNM, Guest Blogger A recent news story and a phone call from a pregnant client made me think about how midwives approach the appro...5/26/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=125&FormID=300 by Heather Cates, ACNM Government Affairs Committee/Midwives-PAC Student Representative As a student, I spent hours becoming proficient at the a...5/2/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=60&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, Writer and Editor, American College of Nurse-Midwives Will you be marching for midwives on Thursday, May 5? In preparation for the ...4/22/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=34&FormID=300 by Cassie Moore, Writer and Editor, American College of Nurse-Midwives Ever feel like some people just don’t “get” midwifery? Sure, your clients...4/22/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=14&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, Writer and Editor, American College of Nurse-Midwives With a 32.9% cesarean rate, an increasing maternal mortality rate, and skyrock...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=12&FormID=300by Jenifer Poell, CNM, WHNP-BC Remember walking into your first job as a new midwife? If you’re anything like me, you felt very excited but intimidat...4/6/2011http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=9&FormID=300by Cassie Moore, ACNM Writer and Editor By now you’ve seen our fabulous new Web site—we hope you love it as much as we do! We’re also taking this b...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=7&FormID=300Just this morning, ACNM released an Issue Brief in response to the ACOG Committee Opinion on Planned Home Birth published in the February 2011 issue o...http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=4&FormID=300http://www.midwife.org/index.asp?bid=325&BlogEntryID=1041