Celebrate Mom
Purchase your copy of Mom—the newest StoryCorps book—for your Mother!
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Help for Haiti
As the people of Haiti struggle for the basics of food, water, and shelter in the aftermath of the January earthquake, below are some ways you might help:
- Give money
- Join relief efforts
- Stage a fundraising event
- Begin a dialogue
- Pray
Click here for a link to a page with information on specific ways you can volunteer or donate. Check this page often as we will update it with specific requests for help and ways you can volunteer or send money and/or items.
Midwives Alliance 2009 was a resounding success! Click here for photos from the great event!
If you would like to buy audio files of the sessions, visit: http://www.networkcommunications
audio.com/mana2009.html for more information. You can also call them at 800-747-1426. They even have some sessions in both English and Spanish!
Open Letter to the producers of the Today Show
You were probably as outraged as we were to see the NBC's Today Show on September 11th entitled "The Perils of Home Birth." It was biased, inaccurate, and sensational, depicting women who choose home births as self-indulgent by likening home birth to a spa treatment. It also implied that hospitals are the safest place for all women to give birth, even low-risk women, making it clear that NBC did not do adequate research to verify its claims. More > > >
Geradine Simkins' Response to the ACNM
TO: Open Letter to the ACNM Board of Directors and Executive Director
I am a CNM and a member of the ACNM and I say very emphatically- not in my name! I do not support your recent decision to publicly and aggressively oppose the efforts of a broad-based coalition of six national midwifery and consumer organizations seeking federal recognition of the Certified Professional midwife. Your position, to me, is indefensible. More > > >
MANA News on-line!
The MANA News on pdf are posted on-line in the "Members Only" area. This option is only available to MANA Members. The June 2010 issue is now posted!
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We are pleased to announce—
the release of an Issue Brief: Certified Professional Midwives in the United States. The Midwives Alliance of North American (MANA) collaborated with the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC), and the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) to create this issue brief. These four national organizations-MANA, NARM, MEAC and NACPM-have played essential roles in the conception, formation, promotion and maintenance of the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential. More > > >
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Nominations are Open!
Nominations for MANA 2010 Elections for President, 1st Vice President, Secretary, and Representatives for Regions 2 and 3 are officially open as of March 1 and close on August 1. More > > >
Announcing the availability of MANAStats data from 2004-2007. Click here for more information.
Click here to read the Midwives Alliance response to the American Medical Association Resolution 205 on Home Deliveries.
The Board of the Midwives Alliance has created a new document called, "Reforming Maternity Care in America." This issue brief is designed for the following target audiences: Obama-Biden Transition Team, U.S. Health and Human Services and Maternal and Child Health Bureau personnel, MCH policy makers, legislators, public health officials, insurers and payers of MCH services, and all who work in the MCH milieu. More > > >
The Midwives Alliance has a new mailing address! Please update your address book with our new mailing address:
Midwives Alliance of North America
611 Pennsylvania Avenue
SE #1700
Washington, DC 20003-4303
CPM2000 is Published!
The CPM2000 research has now been published in the BMJ, June 18, 2005 issue! Read the MANA Press Release and also the full study. More > > >
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"What Every Pregnant Woman Needs To Know About Cesarean Section" has been revised and is available to download in a pdf file from Childbirth Connection. Click here for more information. |
The Midwives Alliance endorses the Joint Statement of the Royal College of Midwives and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (UK) on homebirth for low risk women. MANA President, Geradine Simkins, presented the endorsement, which includes our sister organizations, in Glasgow at the ICM Congress. Click here for more information.
Special Health Insurance Announcement for all MANA Members:
With the costs of health insurance rising and underwriting becoming more difficult, you asked for more options to protect yourself and your family. More > > >
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