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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 21, 2011
MANA's response to the recent Time Magazine article about home birth.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
MANA's President Responds to Recent Controversies in the Media
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 26, 2011
It is Time to Reframe the Homebirth Conversation:
Focus on Optimal Maternity Care and the Practitioners
Who Can Provide It
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 27, 2010
RE: New ACOG Guidelines: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean is a Safe
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 26, 2010
RE: Maternal and Newborn Outcomes in Planned Home Birth Vs. Planned Hospital Births: A Meta-Analysis, Wax JR, Lucas FL, Lamont M, et al., Am J Obstet Gynecol 2010 More > > >
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 11, 2009 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 July 17, 2009
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 > > >
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 > > >
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 > > >
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 11, 2008
Click here to read the Midwives Alliance response to the American Medical Association Resolution 205 on Home Deliveries.
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.
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 > > >
Click here for photos of MANA 2003
October 31-November 2, 2003
Regarding the Washington State Home Birth Study
Click here to read more about the response to this home birth study.
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