MBC ~ Interested Parties Meeting on the Mfry Standard of Care January 14, 2021

Updated ~ Jan 22, 2021 Easy-to-share Tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/y2w57axc {y2w 57 axc} Jan 14, 2021 Medical Board of California Interested Parties Meeting on the Standard of Care for California Licensed Midwives (SCCLM) by Faith Gibson, LM Information for attendees of the Interested Parties meeting on the Standard of Care for California LMs (SCCLM) adopted by… Continue reading MBC ~ Interested Parties Meeting on the Mfry Standard of Care January 14, 2021

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

Legal History of Midwifery in California ~ Part 1 (of3)

~ faith gibson ~ written 2002, revised Sept 2007, posted on FG.org Jan 2020 I am one of the few individuals in either the midwifery community or the employ of the Medical Board who has been involved full-time in the legal and legislative issues of California midwifery before, during and after the passage of the… Continue reading Legal History of Midwifery in California ~ Part 1 (of3)

Identifying Safety vs danger: five models, five perspective, five insights on normal childbirth ~ part 2

Part 2 (of 3) Click here read part 1 ~ Identifying the real dangers of normal childbirth in the 21st-century Safety & the maternity-care continuum in an essentially healthy population Two kinds of data are required to intelligently determine if the current configuration of medical and midwifery care is making the kind of cost-effective contribution… Continue reading Identifying Safety vs danger: five models, five perspective, five insights on normal childbirth ~ part 2

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

Part 1: How the American obstetrical profession can easily eliminate the “midwife problem” but would never consider it

By faith Gibson, LM, CPM ~ former L&D nurse, mother, grandmother, childbirth educator, birth activist, professional community midwife, and a person who is never afraid to hope for a better future Healthy women with normal pregnancies living in developed countries generally have no reason to worry about the basic safety of normal childbirth. Since pregnancy is… Continue reading Part 1: How the American obstetrical profession can easily eliminate the “midwife problem” but would never consider it

Aug 7th Interested Parties Mtg Excerpt ~ email to Curt Worden ~ information and requests

Below is a very lengthy excerpt of my letter to MBC staff Curt Worden, providing crucial background information for the August 7th “Interested Parties” meeting. @@@ Unfortunately, I am unable to attend the scheduled Interested Parties meeting scheduled later this week.  I expect someday professionals and members of the public will be able to provide… Continue reading Aug 7th Interested Parties Mtg Excerpt ~ email to Curt Worden ~ information and requests

My Letter to Ruth Haskins, MD ~ MBC’s Mfry Committee 2005 ~ Three non-negotiable principles for adoption of a Ca LMs’ standard by the MBC

August 9th, 2005 Members of the California College of Midwives’ believe the three principles identified below are non–negotiable. ONE: The basic human and constitutional right of healthy, mentally competent adult women to make the full range of health care choices that fall within a normal pregnancy, labor and birth cannot be bargained away by either… Continue reading My Letter to Ruth Haskins, MD ~ MBC’s Mfry Committee 2005 ~ Three non-negotiable principles for adoption of a Ca LMs’ standard by the MBC

Newest language for AB 1308 – proposed LMPA amendment #4, 1st that did NOT originate with LMs

Introduced by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla on Feb 22nd Most recent up-date ~ 03.21.13 This is the latest version. It is moving through committees of both Houses of the Legislature as we speak. The key to reading ‘mark-up’ language is simple: Text in the color BLACK means ‘no change’ from existing law; BLUE means new and RED means ‘strike-through’… Continue reading Newest language for AB 1308 – proposed LMPA amendment #4, 1st that did NOT originate with LMs