MidwifeInfo has a new look, some new features, and, in the months to come, some new content, but we remain committed to our original goals.

A look under "Midwifery" in your local yellow pages will make it obvious that midwives are licensed and credentialed (or not) in different ways, and have various letters after their names to indicate this.  The goal of this page is to help you make sense of this alphabet soup and understand the education/training/certification and standards behind midwifery credentials. 

February 24-March 3, 2007; Big Sky, Montana        

On June 4, the Dateline NBC television news program aired a segment on the death of a birthing woman at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC. The story has made national news because it has brought to light the problem of infections contracted by hospital patients - and by otherwise healthy birthing women, in particular.

I have had several comments about the MidwifeInfo Directory.  Here's the status....

Introductory para, intro to my intermittent blog. I

In July 2006, in The New Yorker magazine, Jerome Groopman wrote a fascinating article about preeclampsia* and a young researcher who appears to have found the cause.  This is huge.

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Have you noticed the beautiful photographs at the top of each page of MidwifeInfo? Did you know that you can easily add your own photo to appear at random at the top of MidwifeInfo pages?All you need is t o openan account on Flickr, to join the Midwifeinfo group and to add photos to the group. Flickr is a great, free way to share photos with friends and family. Just click here to go right to the MidwifeInfo group on Flickr, and click Sign Up to get started and add your photo to the group. 

February 14-17, 2007; Cancun, Mexico