The Midwives Voice

11/03/2025

10/28/2025

So many kits! Every one created by hand.

10/28/2025

Today’s perfect leaf 🍂

10/28/2025

Amazing tribute!

10/24/2025

Say it loud!!

The 2025 Cochrane review on immediate and early skin-to-skin contact after birth highlights that further randomized controlled trials comparing skin-to-skin contact with ‘usual care’ are no longer ethical.

The findings show there is now enough evidence to make immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth the global standard of care, and as WHO already recommends skin-to-skin the standard of care, the authors argue that randomizing the separation of mother and newborn may no longer be justifiable.

Read more:
https://centerforbreastfeeding.org/cochrane-review-2025

10/24/2025

✨ Updated Resource Alert! ✨
The Pearls of Midwifery: The Midwifery Model of Care – Evidence for Physiologic Birth has been updated and is now available to ACNM members!

This essential tool highlights key evidence-based practices that support physiologic birth and reflects the core values of midwifery-led care.

📚 Log in to your member account to explore the updated content!

10/20/2025

Join us for history, folklore and storytelling discussing Black Midwifery and Missouri Midwife Mariah Watkins. We'll gather on a cozy Autumn morning in the reading room, on Saturday October 25, 2025-9:30am, at the Missouri Historical Society Library & Research Institute at 225 S. Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, MO, in celebration of Community Midwife Month, honored in St. Louis, every October.

Event Details

"Midwife and folklorist Okunsola M. Amadou explores the deep roots of midwifery in American culture with a spotlight on Mariah Watkins. Born into slavery in North Carolina and freed at the end of the Civil War, Watkins settled in Neosho, Missouri, in the 1870s after being married in St. Louis. She is remembered today as a prominent member of the Neosho community, delivering babies for almost 40 years and influencing the work of one of Missouri's greatest scientists-George Washington Carver."
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Register to join: https://bit.ly/MidwifeMariahWatkins