• New ACNM Position Statements on Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM)
  
  
• Milbank Report: Evidence-Based Maternity Care - A Childbirth Connection report takes stock of the US maternity system and identifies opportunities for improvement.

• A recent Cochrane Review concludes that all women should be offered midwife-led models of care. Click here for details.

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

• ACNM Launches Home Birth: Resources for Payers and Policymakers

• 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 Spotlights 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.

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

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

• National Business Group on Health
  NBGH’s Investing in Maternal and Child Health recommends health plans develop CNM-friendly benefit designs that reduce the risks and costs of unnecessary medical interventions.

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

• Read November Quick eNews
  
  
• Applications now being accepted for the 2008 Deanne R. Williams Public Policy Fellowship. Click Here for Details.
  

• Staff and volunteers attend many meetings and conferences on behalf of members. Check out ACNM Representing You!
  
  
• ACNM Launches “ACNM FutureFocus” - Because every woman deserves a midwife

• Get involved in implementing ACNM's new bylaws
  
  

• Credentialing and Medical Staff Privileging (new resources for members only)
  

• Read about the Public Education Program, supported by the A.C.N.M. Foundation. Donate now.
  

• Read ACNM's official statement on midwifery credentials.
  

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

News Releases

• New Research on Violence and Trauma Published in Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (November 3, 2008)

• Midwives Put Their Message in the Mail (October 6, 2008)

• Midwives Honored During National Midwifery Week (October 2, 2008)

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