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Counter reset January 2007 after 50,786 hits	American College of Community Midwives A professional organization for Community Midwives (1) American College of Community Midwives (2) California College of Midwives (4) HealthCare_2.0.com (5) NormalBirth.Org (6) MaterntyCare2.0 Action Alert: The Birth Survey -- feedback on your recent birth, search the database for user feedback on midwives, obstetricians, hospitals and birth centers Ning.com Site for "Tell-A-Vision" Normal care for Normal Birth by the year 2020 Popular Subdirectories for College of Midwives New, Important or Popular Documents Info for California's Midwifery Advisory Council PHB Stats ~ California LMs 2008 About us: Faith Gibson, LM, CPM email: bonniefaithgibson@gmail.com http://normal-birth.blogspot.com	Table of Contents info@collegeofmidwives.org Last Updated March 12, 2010 The California Medical Board asked the College of Midwives not to published information on Midwifery Advisory Council, but instead direct all LMs to the Board's official web site for updates on MBC & Midwifery Issues

ACCM
A professional organization for midwives who provide physiologically-based maternity care in a community settings ~ client homes, maternity homes or birth centers.

Best Evidence on science-based maternity care Extensive archive ~ a "must read". This subdirectory has links to links to primary sources, lengthy excerpts, and citation lists documenting the scientific basis for physiological childbirth as the universal standard of care for healthy women with normal pregnancies. Also journal articles on interventive and operative obstetrics >> induction, elective C-sections and political controversies, including ACOG's effort to eliminate planned home birth.

Other "Best Evidence" topics (1) community-based midwifery, and (2) political and historical forces that have inappropriately medicalized normal childbirth in the US (3) the politics that underlie organized medicine's push to make elective Cesarean surgery the new, 21st century standard of care for in a healthy women with normal pregnancies.

The BEST EVIDENCE subdirectory
also has links to the most important articles
on the College of Midwives web site.

Short cut to --> New View -- Historical background for how we developed
such a dysfunction health care system

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