This letter to families from NYC Midwives about the COVID-19 pandemic offers some resources that pregnant folks may find helpful. Stay healthy! NYC Midwives Letter to Families
NY midwife Trinisha Williams and the Brooklyn Birthing Center are mentioned in this New York magazine article. Pregnant in a Pandemic
Birth Settings jn America Here you can find the conclusions of this report; the citation for the full report is at the end of this summary.
Community vs out-of-hospital birth; JMWH 2019 Do words matter when describing where births take place?
Sunday Smith LM is featured in this article which highlights rural health care, problems with insurance reimbursement, and the personal sacrifices Sunday makes to offer safe, compassionate care to New
A television station in Albany interviewed Michelle Doyle LM for National Midwifery Week. https://wnyt.com/news/health-beat-midwifery/5515574/
Celebrate National Midwifery Week with the U of Rochester midwives in this television broadcast, which also discusses Centering Pregnancy, a unique midwifery prenatal care model. https://foxrochester.com/news/good-day-rochester/recognizing-and-celebrating-midwife-led-care
Poor coordination of care across providers and birth settings has been associated with adverse maternal-newborn outcomes. Research suggests that integration of midwives into regional health systems is a key determinant
This article in Contemporary Ob-Gyn summarizes a study which found that interprofessional care (i.e midwife-doctor teams) rather than MD care alone resulted in fewer interventions and more vaginal deliveries in
Spring 2015: “Doula, Sister, Aunt, Storyteller: A Midwife’s Retelling of Birth,” Journal of Perinatal Education, Mimi Niles As a midwife, delivering hundreds of babies a year in a busy city
February 4, 2014: “Home Birth in a Risk Society,” Science & Sensibility, by Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD Today, I am delighted to share with you an essay on risk written
January 30, 2013: “Outcomes of Care in Birth Centers,” Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health The safety and effectiveness of birth center care have been demonstrated in previous studies, including
