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PushforMidwives retweeted
Kudos @aafp Student Congress for passing resolution on advocating for licensing for direct-entry #midwives to increase access to quality #MaternalHealth providers for families who choose out-of-hospital births aafp.org/news/education-prof… @SarahCo66857803 @PushforMidwives
PushforMidwives retweeted
1/🥳 A rare bright spot for #MaternalHealth in #Iowa. Today @KimReynoldsIA signed HF 265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives making #Iowa state #38 (+ DC). #ialegis
@IAGovernor Press release: governor.iowa.gov/press-rele… @PushforMidwives
ALT Image text: Iowa is the 38th state to regulate Certified Professional Midwives!
PushforMidwives retweeted
Read a press release on #Iowa becoming the 38th state to regulate Certified Professional #Midwives: tinyurl.com/yc4ptm3b
Thank you to everyone that has provided support in getting this bill finally passed! #ialegis #MaternalHealth @PushforMidwives
ALT Image text: Press Release: New law makes Iowa 38th state to regulate midwives.
PushforMidwives retweeted
“This bill has been decades in the making thanks to a diverse coalition of individuals past & present. Once this bill is signed by the governor more Iowa families will have access to midwifery model of care which is associated w/improved maternal health outcomes” @MeganDaySuhr – at Des Moines, IA
PushforMidwives retweeted
Thanks @BusinessRecord for highlighting the passage of HF 265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa: businessrecord.activehosted.… #ialegis – at Des Moines, IA
PushforMidwives retweeted
1/Kudos to @MeganDaySuhr & @shiphrahbirth for their tireless efforts for many years to get this bill passed & the longstanding support from @marymascher @Rep_BobbyK & many other #ialegis legislators. @PushforMidwives
📢 HF 265 (as amended from Senate) to license Certified Professional #Midwives has passed the #Iowa House 91-2. The bill now goes @IAGovernor for signing!!! History is made. #Iowa will be #38 !!! Congrats to all the midwives & advocates past & present @PushforMidwives
ALT Image description: Iowa House votes totals for HF 265 to license midwives - 91 aye; 2 nay; 7 absent
PushforMidwives retweeted
📢 HF 265 (as amended from Senate) to license Certified Professional #Midwives has passed the #Iowa House 91-2. The bill now goes @IAGovernor for signing!!! History is made. #Iowa will be #38 !!! Congrats to all the midwives & advocates past & present @PushforMidwives
ALT Image description: Iowa House votes totals for HF 265 to license midwives - 91 aye; 2 nay; 7 absent
PushforMidwives retweeted
1/Email your #ialegis Senator now to ask them to vote yes to HF265 to license #midwives in #Iowa when it comes to the Senate floor this week: legis.iowa.gov/legislators/f…. This is a bipartisan bill, improves #MaternalHealth & will make Iowa #38! @PushforMidwives
PushforMidwives retweeted
1/ Contact all #Iowa Senators & ask them to vote yes to HF 265 without amendment to license Certified Professional #Midwives. This passed the House 91-2 & two full Senate committees. This is the farthest this bill has ever gone. Help us make Iowa #38! #ialegis @PushforMidwives
ALT Image text: Take action. Contact all Iowa State Senators to support HF 265 to license Certified Professional Midwives.
PushforMidwives retweeted
The coronavirus exacerbated the effects of medical racism already baked into the U.S. healthcare system, leading to a spike in Black maternal mortality rates between 2020 and 2021, new data from the @CDCgov reveals.
via @MsMagazine
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PushforMidwives retweeted
#actionalert Support Midwifery Education & Funding for Birth Centers! AABC, ACNM & NACPM partner to request funding for midwifery education & birth center start-ups. Call your 2 Senators by April 6th to support Maternal Health funding. #birthcenters
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PushforMidwives retweeted
UPDATE/HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa passed the Senate Ways & Means subcommittee AND the full committee today. Stay tuned for further info/action steps! #ialegis #MaternalHealth
1/Tomorrow at 8:30am HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa will go before Senate Ways & Means for a subcommittee. This should be our final sub of this session. We are so close. #ialegis
ALT Image text: Take action: contact Iowa Senate Ways and Means Committee to support HF 265 to license certified professional midwives.
PushforMidwives retweeted
5/END Watch video of Melanie, Certified Professional Midwife practicing in #Iowa 30 yrs who has been prosecuted by state for no reason other than providing quality #MaternalHealth care in rural Cedar County where there is no hospital: youtu.be/Ldn0126tBhc #ialegis #midwives
PushforMidwives retweeted
1/Tomorrow at 8:30am HF265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives in #Iowa will go before Senate Ways & Means for a subcommittee. This should be our final sub of this session. We are so close. #ialegis
ALT Image text: Take action: contact Iowa Senate Ways and Means Committee to support HF 265 to license certified professional midwives.
PushforMidwives retweeted
"...planned hospital birth in many places does not reduce mortality & morbidity but increases the frequency of interventions & complications...the increasing medicalisation of childbirth tends to undermine women’s own capability to give birth.." #ialegis #midwives #Iowa
Midwife-assisted home birth is an integrated part of maternity care 👏
Studies suggest that planned hospital birth for women @ low risk of complications is NOT safer than planned home birth assisted by a #midwife w/ medical backup. 👇 @cochranecollab
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PushforMidwives retweeted
Moving forward. HF265 passed out Senate State Govt as written w/only 1 no vote. Comment about potential for amendment from the floor that repeats med lobby talking pts. & cause harm per thread below. Today we celebrate progress. Stay tuned for next steps. #ialegis #midwives – at Des Moines, IA
🧵1/HF 265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives passed the Senate State Gov't subcommittee w/all 3 members voting to support. The full State Gov't Committee meets tomorrow at 11am to consider the bill. legis.iowa.gov/legislation/B… @PushforMidwives #ialegis #Iowa
PushforMidwives retweeted
“Black and brown people, when they’re going into the hospital to have their babies, they’re feeling many times that they’re not listened to, their needs aren’t being met, their pain is being ignored or being reduced." #mapoli masslive.com/politics/2023/0…
PushforMidwives retweeted
🧵1/HF 265 to license Certified Professional #Midwives passed the Senate State Gov't subcommittee w/all 3 members voting to support. The full State Gov't Committee meets tomorrow at 11am to consider the bill. legis.iowa.gov/legislation/B… @PushforMidwives #ialegis #Iowa
🧵1/#ialegis Senate State Government will have a subcommittee this Tuesday 3/28 at 2pm. Contact all members of the committee ASAP asking them to vote yes for HF265 as written to license #midwives which will improve access to #MaternalHealth care options in #Iowa. @PushforMidwives
ALT Image text: Take action. Contact Iowa Senate State Government Committee to support HF265 to license certified professional midwives
PushforMidwives retweeted
12/END 2023 is the year. Contact #ialegis State Government Committee Members. Let's make #Iowa state 38 to license Certified Professional #Midwives pushformidwives.org/pushstat… @PushforMidwives
ALT Image description: Map of USA showing states and years Certified Professional Midwives were regulated.
PushforMidwives retweeted
11/On homebirth/birth center settings: "Despite limited institutional support for credentialed midwives in the US...the weight of evidence in US cohort studies indicates that births in these settings have good outcomes..." via ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
