Category: AB1308, new regs & new legislative efforts

self-evident but anything to do with Senate B&P hearings in spring of 2013

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

Last words on AB 1308 as it goes into effect January 1st, 2014

The original (1917) California licensing provision for direct-entry midwives did a splendid job of modeling language for highly effective and ethical legislation for the practice of tradition (i.e., non-medical) midwifery in our State. Each use of a critical word or phrase was followed, in the very next sentence, by a specific and expanded definition of… Continue reading Last words on AB 1308 as it goes into effect January 1st, 2014

Thoughts on the newly amended LMPA & providing the care based on “best practices to health childbearing women

Now that the stumbling block of prerequisite supervision has gone away, we have a chance —  for the first time in 39 year — to eliminate the undue influence that special interest groups have had over mfry licensing laws (1974 and 1993). This provides the first opportunity since passage of the CNM law in 1974 to see that midwifery… Continue reading Thoughts on the newly amended LMPA & providing the care based on “best practices to health childbearing women

Rights, Truth and Consent ~ Patient Autonomy & Paternalism

The following definitions and other information about autonomy comes from a course for undergraduate students in nursing, mfry and medicine at CUNY.edu. It is more directly relevant to the rights of women as maternity care patients, than to our professional rights as midwives. However, the information is still very enlightening and helpful in understanding our… Continue reading Rights, Truth and Consent ~ Patient Autonomy & Paternalism

Informed Consent Information for Clients of California Licensed Midwives ~ January 2014

Informed Consent Information & Waiver for Clients of California Licensed Midwives ~ 2014 Licensed Midwifery Practice Act as modified by AB 1308 ~ September 12, 2013 This bill would, among other things, no longer require a physician and surgeon to supervise a licensed midwife. The bill would require, if a potential midwife client fails to… Continue reading Informed Consent Information for Clients of California Licensed Midwives ~ January 2014

Significant changes in the LMPA in final version of AB 1308

ASIDE: I found a funny blooper in AB 1308 – a misunderstanding of the word “version”, which is a technical term that actually refers to “podalic” version — changing a vtx position to a breech during 2nd stage by reaching up in the mother’s uterus and pulling her baby out by its feet: (e) The… Continue reading Significant changes in the LMPA in final version of AB 1308

Women Receiving Midwife Care Throughout Pregnancy & Birth Have Better Outcomes ~ Cochrane Library

June 2013 … less likely to lose their babies before 24 weeks or give birth before 37 weeks.  Women were happier with the care they received, had fewer epidurals, fewer assisted births, and fewer episiotomies … care provided by midwives was more cost-effective during labour …. researchers conclude that all women should be offered midwife-led continuity of care… Continue reading Women Receiving Midwife Care Throughout Pregnancy & Birth Have Better Outcomes ~ Cochrane Library

Open Letter to Ca LMs on AB 1308 & historical issues of mfry in California

Dear Midwives, As a midwife who has been practicing since the 1970s, I would like to first express my appreciation to Sarah Davis and Constance Rock for their extraordinary dedication to our profession and the families we serve, as well as Faith Gibson and the members of the Midwifery Advisory Council for the countless hours… Continue reading Open Letter to Ca LMs on AB 1308 & historical issues of mfry in California