The Midwife
and Home Birth

"If the Lord has something he wants you to do,
you won't have no good luck unless you do it"
-Minnie Farr, a granny midwife from Arkansas

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HOW TO TALK TO YOUR LEGISLATORS 

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The Childbirth Monopoly: Why the medical industry is dragging its feet when it comes to midwives.

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This site is intended to help you educate yourself and others about the choice of midwifery and homebirth. Families need to be aware of birthing options. Midwifery is a model of care which includes good nutrition, skillful midwifery, natural childbirth, homebirth and breastfeeding.

David Stewart, PhD, wrote in The Five Standards for Safe Childbearing that "more than a million American babies have died since 1940 who would  have lived were it not for doctors and hospitals -- babies that would have been born alive and  healthy at home with a midwife."

Most Americans think that childbirth has always  taken place in the hospital with doctors, but this is not so. Physician-attended hospital birth is a 20th century phenomena initiated by the rich and  powerful at a time when women did not have the  right   to vote!

Copy and use my researched articles. Buy a copy of my video or ask your library, school, college, health department or other entity to purchase a copy. Invite interested people to an educational get-together. You can do it! Use my video and accompanying reproducible handouts to begin. Together, we can change American birth practices and demand public policy that "allows the profession of midwifery to develop fully, independently, and in its rightful place -- the home."

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      " ...Since home birth and direct entry midwifery are perfectly safe options, (a majority of) State legislatures have concluded that it is the right of each woman and her family to choose such options. State laws must guarantee families the freedom to choose home birth by recognizing the type of midwifery which focuses principally on out-of-hospital birth, direct entry midwifery."
    "State legislatures are also concerned with guaranteeing an open marketplace and fair competition, including in health care services. To exclude direct entry midwives from practice is to allow a scientifically unjustified monopoly of doctors and nurse midwives... "
-Marsden Wagner, to the Va.JCHC, 1998

Wanted: CPT codes for midwife services. Please send the CPT codes for the services you provide and the fees that are considered by Insurance companies to be "reasonable and customary" for midwife procedures. I will put these together in one page so that we all can use them. Thank you! Send them here: EMAIL