Midwives Model Care –What to Expect
I am a Certified Professional Midwife – Practicing within the Midwives Model of Care—Licensed in Minnesota
Certified Professional Midwife… A Certified Professional Midwife is a knowledgeable, skilled and professional independent midwifery practitioner who has met the standards for certification set by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) and is qualified to provide the midwifery model of care. The CPM is the only international credential that requires knowledge about and experience in out-of-hospital settings.
Midwives Model of Care The Midwives Model of Care is a philosophy of care based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes. The Midwives Model of Care...
See The Midwives Model of Care Brochure (http://cfmidwifery.org/mmoc/brochures.aspx)
Licensed Midwife in Minnesota… I adhere to the protocols and scope of practice for licensed midwives taken from the Standards of Care document that was developed by midwives themselves belonging to the Minnesota Midwives' Guild. This document is regularly reviewed and updated to meet the current community standards of practicing midwives. http://214mmguild.simplweb.com/images/stories/pdf/standards_of_care_revsionsnov2011.pdf Twenty six states now recognize direct-entry midwives in statute, 24 through licensure. Before the advent of the CPM credential in 1994, individual states that licensed midwives each had their own requirements and standards. Since the availability of the CPM credential, the trend has been to use the CPM as the basis for state licensure as is the case in Minnesota; The credential also establishes a national standard for quality assurance within the profession..
The Minnesota midwifery-licensing bill was signed into law in July 1999. Read more... https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=147D&view=chapter
For more understanding of the Midwives Model of Care read "Forging the New Gold Standard: The Historical Development of the Midwives Model of Care" An article by Maureen Dahl "If I’m to die in childbirth, then that’s how I’m to die.” Minni Sullivan, my maternal grandmother had just been told by the old country doctor to never have any more children. Her response silenced him. He’d been summoned to her home by her female neighbors to help stop a hemorrhage after the birth of her first child, my Uncle Jim, in 1908. She went on to birth six more children, all at home, all attended by her husband, her neighbors and the old doc. Home birth early in the twentieth century was common, especially for women in rural areas. My maternal grandmother’s words sum up the attitude of many women of the era: childbirth was normal, a woman’s expectation, yet to be faced realistically and with courage...
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