NACPM is committed to justice for all childbearing people, their babies and their families, and to ensuring their health and wellbeing. In this issue we focus on two issues of concern to pregnant people and families in the U.S.: the unconscionable practice of shackling incarcerated laboring prison inmates and the assault on the rights of.

NACPM deplores the most recent instance of the current administration’s assault on the rights of American citizens: denying passport applications from those born at home with midwives, especially along our southern border with Mexico. This denial of the rights of people of color is part of a pattern of racial bias that has grown and.

We will have 3 new Board Members joining NACPM at this month’s Leadership Team meeting. Please read more about them here

Please read the announcement by the NACPM Leadership team Please read the full announcement here

NACPM is electing two new Board members this summer. If you are a CPM Member of NACPM, you will receive an email with voting instructions. Here are our candidates in their own words: Jenny Jahn, CPM, LM, CHD from New Mexico states: “The National Association of Certified Professional Midwives was presented to my class when I.

In response to the opposition of U.S. delegates to a breastfeeding resolution introduced at the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May 2018, the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) has issued the following statement: Please read the full statement here

On May 10th before the start of the CPM Symposium, NACPM hosted the first-ever in-person gathering of NACPM chapter members. We were thrilled to have had representation from 13 of our 18 currently formed state chapters at this seminal event plus guests from 4 additional states. This day was designed specifically for chapter leaders and.

Click through for a message from the 2018 CPM Symposium Convening Partners: Click for more information

There are a number of opportunities for being a part of the Symposium; you can join in person or virtually, and don’t forget to submit your video vignette! Click for more information

Meet the CPM Symposium speakers who will help us understand the different forces at work in the maternity health care system from a range of varying perspectives. Click for more information