Work-N-Progress ~ Last saved Oct 11, 2021 @ 1:02 pm If you are a politically-active midwife trying to figure out how the formal practice standards for Ca LM became such a blankety-blank mess, this series will provide you with the historic background and more facts and information than you ever wanted to know. But if… Continue reading Intro to a series on the history and development of practice standards for Ca LMs
Category: AB1308, new regs & new legislative efforts
self-evident but anything to do with Senate B&P hearings in spring of 2013
Repost ~ My July 29th, 2005 letter to MdBd & Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Mfry Standards & document dump to make easier to find related materials
This re-post of my original testimony at the July 2005 MBC regulatory the letter includes additional supporting documents that are critically important to this issue. The combination of this key testimony and background documents provides a convenient “parking place” for one big file so a Ca LMs (including me!) can easily find politically useful “quotables”, excerpts from… Continue reading Repost ~ My July 29th, 2005 letter to MdBd & Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Mfry Standards & document dump to make easier to find related materials
Repost* of 2005 Letter to MBC & CCM Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Standard of Care for the practice of Licensed Midwifery in California
At the November 2019 Quarterly meeting of the California Medical Board of California as agenda item (11-B) was formally proposing that the Board carry a bill that would make it illegal for Ca LMs to provide care VBAC care. This made me so angry I wanted to cry, as we already spent nearly 4 years… Continue reading Repost* of 2005 Letter to MBC & CCM Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Standard of Care for the practice of Licensed Midwifery in California
Art & Science Cal Mfry: Part 3 ~ Comparison of ACOG Opinions #166 & #214 + SB 1479 w/ Post-AB1308 Medical Board “Practice Guidelines” in 2014
https://tinyurl.com/ydcmxlkv ACOG Committee Opinions #166 and #214, the 2000 Amendment (SB 1479) to the LMPA of 1993 and the midwifery Standard of Care ~ Limitations imposed by AB 1308 in 2013 that repealed the standard of care and statutorily denied ‘patient autonomy’ and ‘self-determination’ to essentially healthy childbearing women The Standard of Care for California Licensed Midwives (SCCLM) was… Continue reading Art & Science Cal Mfry: Part 3 ~ Comparison of ACOG Opinions #166 & #214 + SB 1479 w/ Post-AB1308 Medical Board “Practice Guidelines” in 2014
The Art & Science of Modern Midwifery in California ~ part 2 (of 3)
https://tinyurl.com/ybvde6cx ~ This URL links to Parts 1. You can access Part 2 by clicking the link at the bottom of Part 1. The story behind the 1993 Licensed Midwifery Practice Act and organized medicine’s 2013 amendment to the LMPA that irrationally restricts access to care by Ca LMs The California Licensed Midwifery Practice Act was introduced in 1993 by Senator Lucy… Continue reading The Art & Science of Modern Midwifery in California ~ part 2 (of 3)
The Art & Science of Modern Midwifery in California ~ Part 1 (of 3)
tinyurl.com/ybvde6cx Safe, cost-effective Childbirth in the 21st Century Healthy childbearing women and their babies are always safer when the mother-to-be receives regular prenatal care during pregnancy, is cared for by a trained and experienced birth attendant throughout active labor, the birth of her baby, the immediate postpartum-neonatal period and initial breastfeeding and that both new mother… Continue reading The Art & Science of Modern Midwifery in California ~ Part 1 (of 3)
SB 457 — ACOG’s newest attempt to eliminate PHB and severely restrict LM scope of practice, threaten license and livelihood of Ca LMs
Why CALM, CCM & C-FAM (you too we hope) is opposed to California senate bill 457 The California Nurse-Midwives Association and the California Association of Licensed Midwives (CALM) stand together in opposition to this bill. CALM is opposed because: This bill, which is being promoted by anti-midwife physician groups, drastically reduces the scope of practice for… Continue reading SB 457 — ACOG’s newest attempt to eliminate PHB and severely restrict LM scope of practice, threaten license and livelihood of Ca LMs
Brave New World: American midwives & obstetricians finally on the same (winning!) team ~ How, What, When & Why
GOOD NEWS! I am extreame encouraged by the recent and unexpected turn of event in the political saga between ACOG and Ca LMs. ACOG’s two newest Committee Opinions on PHB (#669) and a pregnant woman’s right to refuse medical recommendations (#664) are an answer to our prayers. Clearly, these ACOG policy statements are nothing less than… Continue reading Brave New World: American midwives & obstetricians finally on the same (winning!) team ~ How, What, When & Why
CCM: Clarifying Definition of a Midwife-attended “Planned Home Birth”
California College of Midwives Standards & Guidelines ~ Section Four ~ October 2004 A Clarifying & Statistically-relevant Definition of a Midwife-attended “Planned Home Birth” for practical, political, policy purposes A professionally-attended and planned home birth with a licensed midwife is intentional –– that is, a thoughtful and informed decision mutually made by the parents and… Continue reading CCM: Clarifying Definition of a Midwife-attended “Planned Home Birth”
The Healing Arts ~ A Short History of California Medical Practice Act
The best way to understand the contemporary politics of allopathic medicine in California is to peek behind the curtain of our state’s modern-day Medical Practice Act to its original 1876 “Healing Arts Act” and California’s first attempt to legally define and regulate the use of the word “doctor”. So here is a brief historical account… Continue reading The Healing Arts ~ A Short History of California Medical Practice Act