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Counter reset January 2007 after 51,000 hits	American College of Community Midwives A professional organization for Community Midwives (1) American College of Community Midwives (2) California College of Midwives (3) ScienceBasedBirth.com (4) HealthCare_2.0.com (5) NormalBirth.Org (6) MaterntyCare_2.0 Action Alert: The Birth Survey ~ Feedback on your birth, search the database for feedback on midwives, OBs, 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 California MBC's Midwifery Advisory Council Synopsis LMAR 2008 PHB Stats About us: Faith Gibson, LM, CPM email: bonniefaithgibson@gmail.com http://normal-birth.blogspot.com	Table of Contents info@collegeofmidwives.org Last Updated June 07, 2010 The California Medical Board asked the College of Midwives not to published information from the Midwifery Advisory Council, but instead direct all LMs to the Board's official web site for updates on MBC & Midwifery Issues
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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.

Web site resource for Ning Network

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

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Midwifery and Health Care Reform

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Pertinent Historical Background of Childbirth Services in 3 Parts links to Part 2, Part 3, and the Citation Key

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