Campaign News
Watch and Share Our New Video: Healthy
Birth with a Midwife
We are excited to share the third video in our
series designed to promote midwifery care to women and families. "Healthy Birth
with a Midwife" focuses on explaining the benefits of normal, physiologic
birth. In this video, midwives discuss what normal birth
means to them and how they help women experience it. Check out our tips
for sharing our video widely! This video was created with support from the ACNM Healthy Birth
Initiative®.
Thanks for a Successful National Midwifery
Week!
Thank you to everyone who participated in
National Midwifery Week activities, whether online or in person! We loved
celebrating with you and for you. And thanks to some serious social media
engagement, our messages about the value of midwifery care reached over 220,000
people! Let's keep the momentum going now and throughout the year.
#MidwivesMakeADifference all the time!
Women’s
Health News
A revised Healthcare.gov website is now
available to the public for examination of available plan options and
enrollments.The revised site is expected to be 40% faster and will allow
you to input a list of health providers, hospitals, and prescription drugs and
get a list of plans that include your needs in their network and benefits.
Navajo Midwives in New Mexico Plan 1st-ever Native American Birth Center
Nicolle Gonzales, a certified nurse-midwife and
Navajo (or Diné, as Navajo
people refer to themselves), from Waterflow, New Mexico, has embarked on a
journey to create the nation's first Native American birth center.
New Guidelines: Most Mammograms Can Wait Till 45
Most women don't
need to start getting an annual mammogram to screen for breast cancer until
they turn 45, according to the latest guidelines from the American Cancer
Society. Previously, the society recommended women start annual mammograms at
40 and continue every year for as long they remained in good health.
Most Hospitals Still Don't Give Moms Enough Support for Breastfeeding
Most hospitals around the country aren't doing
a good job of helping new moms who want to breastfeed, researchers reported in Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report. Several common practices at the institutions
may actually prevent moms from sticking with breastfeeding for 6 months.
The Impact Breastfeeding Struggles can have on Mothers' Mental
Health
The gulf between women's breastfeeding
hopes and their actual experiences can be wide and full of disappointment. A
small new study highlights just how damaging it can be for mothers' mental
health when those breastfeeding goals and realities don't line up.
Birth Centers are Having a Moment in the Sun
The number of birth centers in the United
States has increased nearly 60% since the Affordable Care Act was implemented
in 2010. And the number of births happening in those centers has increased at
the same rate.
Resources
November is Prematurity Awareness Month
November is Prematurity Awareness
Month® and when the March of Dimes focuses the nation’s attention on premature birth. The awareness month
kicks off with the release of the Premature Birth Report Card,
and November 17 marks World Prematurity Day.
