Midwifery Advocacy Month

This year, the goal of ACNM encourages Senators of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee not co-hosting Human Resources 1209 / S 628, "Improvement of Reproductive Medicine Act" .

Please check this gDoc to see if your representative or senator belongs to this group. If your legislator is included, you have a chance!

If your legislator does not have a color code as a co-sponsor, please contact the local staff and establish a meeting using the contact information of gDoc.

Requesting a meeting is easy, usually you can do it by email or phone. You only need a few minutes. If possible bring another midwife or contact your colleagues at OB / GYN and take it with you. ACNM and ACOG are cooperating with this law and it is very powerful for two obstetric medical experts to attend the conference.

When asking for a meeting, it is intended to identify himself as a member, to talk about HR 1209 / S 628, and to identify the country where maternal health care providers are short across the country I will.

ACNM provides conversation points and background information on our website. As you read some information before you go, you will be familiar with the subject and will bring a printed version of the conversation to stay

Please tell them that the main purpose of the law is to identify the area of ​​the country where the full range of obstetric health care providers is missing. The shortage of these suppliers is in the process of becoming increasingly serious and it is important to know the most serious areas of these shortages. In addition, this law will allow domestic health services to be placed in the place where the obstetric health care provider is most needed (without increasing expenditure).

After the meeting, thank the chairperson or staff for thanking them for letting us thank you. Then follow up the points of agreement and see what their decision is. If you have not decided yet, please ask when you can call back. Finally, I will let you know what happened to ACNM public relations and government affairs director Cara Kinzelman.

Midwives provide practical skills in nursing to help women and their partners feel the pain of work. Working with women of maternity care includes pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum support with women, advocacy, counseling, education, aid, and comprehensive partnership. These roles of the midwife are rooted in the philosophical focus of midwifery care that midwives power women, women centers, and women. These factors are interrelated in midwifery work and are important concepts for successful support during childbirth, which affects the experience of women's pain.

Midwife places women and midwife at midwifery care centers. It is said that midwifery is an art using heart, hands and mind. This article discusses this statement about working with women in childbirth. In this article we will examine midwives' three basic elements, mind, hands and mind, and explain in detail the relevance of each element and the importance of each element in dealing with women of childbearing age. "Mind" focuses on important values ​​of compassion, respecting the importance of women, babies, and their own, and women-centered care. "Hand" focuses on midwife skills, techniques, and treatments, emphasizes pondering and ethical practice and practices the knowledge necessary for safe and competitive practice.