• ACNM Responds to AMA Resolutions on Home Birth and Physician Oversight of Midwives

• New from the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services: Take The Birth Survey, an online resource for mothers to share their birth experiences
  
  
• CBS Evening News Features Midwifery Practice
  Macarthur award winner Ruth Lubic, CNM, founder of the DC Family Health and Birth Center talks about her birth center. Other Midwives in the News.

• 2007 ACNM Annual Report
  
  
• New Missouri Law Grants CNMs Controlled Substances Prescriptive Authority
  
  

• Learn all about midwifery care in the United States – a comprehensive resource for midwifery facts and statistics

• Visit our consumer-oriented websites myMidwife.org and GotMom.org

• ACNM Presents Free CEU Program for Nurses
  A new clinical resource for intrapartum nurses on performing a sterile speculum examination.

• The National Business Group on Health
  NBGH’s Investing in Maternal and Child Health names CNMs first on the list of providers women should consider and recommends health plans develop CNM-friendly benefit design strategies that reduce the risks and costs of unnecessary medical interventions at birth.

• Cara Muhlhahn, CNM, talks about her role in the new Ricki Lake documentary, “The Business of Being Born”

Choose a midwife is a primary message of the film.

• Speak Out for Midwifery!
  Support efforts to improve Medicare access to midwifery services.

• ACNM Launches “ACNM FutureFocus”

• Learn about opportunities to get involved in implementing ACNM's new bylaws
  
  

• Credentialing and Medical Staff Privileging Resources (members only)
  

• Register now for exciting workshops on Billing and Coding in September and October
  

• ACNM launches national initiative to enhance the stature of midwifery in the U.S., supported by the A.C.N.M. Foundation. Donate now.
  

• ACNM has updated its Issue Brief on midwifery credentials, last updated in 1999. 
  

• Read the September edition of The Advocate (ACNM members only.)

News Releases

• New Articles on Infertility and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (July 11, 2008)

• Anne Hyre, CNM Joins ACNM as the Director of the Global Outreach Department (June 18, 2008)