The future begins with the way we are born.
The National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) is the membership organization representing Certified Professional Midwives (CPM) in the United States. Certified Professional Midwives provide unique and critical access to normal physiologic birth, profoundly benefitting childbearing people and their newborns. Founded in 2000, NACPM ensures a powerful, collective voice for Certified Professional Midwives. NACPM directs its influence toward improving outcomes for all childbearing people and their infants, investing in a strong racially, ethnically, and socially representative CPM workforce, and helping to drive urgently needed changes in the systems that care for birthing people in the U.S. today.
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Sustainability takes on an even broader meaning when viewed through a midwifery lens:
How can we, as midwives, practice in ways that are more environmentally sustainable?
How can we sustain ourselves while working in a career that asks so much of us?
How can we ensure that the profession itself is sustained for generations to come?