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  2. Elizabeth Davis (midwife) - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Davis is an author, women's health care specialist, educator, consultant, and Certified Professional Midwife (CPM). [1] [2] [3] She is a resident of Sebastopol, California and a mother of three children. [4] Since 1977, Davis has pioneered a professional path for midwives in the United States while educating women around the world. [4]

  3. Robin Lim - Wikipedia

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    Lim is a Certified Professional Midwife with the North American Registry of Midwives. In 2003, with help from the Balinese community and donations from friends across the globe, Lim and fellow midwife Brenda Ritchmond, as well as board members; Eka Yuliani, Made Wena, and Made Sandiyasa opened the first Yayasan Bumi Sehat clinic. [6]

  4. Margaret Wheeler (midwife) - Wikipedia

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    She then moved to Northampton and Epsom Hospitals to undertake midwifery training becoming a State Certified Midwife (SCM) in 1956. Having trained as a nurse and then as a midwife, she was a medical missionary with the United Society Partners in the Gospel in India. Having returned to the United Kingdom, she completed the Midwife Teachers ...

  5. Midwives in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A Certified Midwife (CM) is a midwife certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB). The CM role was created in 1997 in order to expand routes of entry to midwifery education. The CM program includes identical content in midwifery and women's health as the CNM program, but does not require a nursing degree. [ 6 ]

  6. Margaret Stephen (midwife) - Wikipedia

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    Doreen A. Evenden in her Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry describes Stephen as "articulate and intelligent". Evenden describes Domestic Midwife as combining traditional female practices with male medical science, [2] while the American academic Pam Lieske considers that Stephen "functioned very much like a male midwife". [9]

  7. Jennie Joseph - Wikipedia

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    Joseph advocated for regulations preventing certified professional midwives (CPM) from practicing. In 1995, she opened a midwifery school. [1] In 2009, she created the Common-sense Childbirth School of Midwifery, hoping to support women without access to Ob-gyns, who go to the emergency room when in labor.

  8. American College of Nurse-Midwives - Wikipedia

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    The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is a professional association in the United States, formed in 1955, that represents certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs). Dating back to 1929, ACNM strives to be a leading example for excellence in midwifery education and practice in the United States and has a special ...

  9. Direct-entry midwife - Wikipedia

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    A direct-entry midwife is a midwife who has become credentialed without first becoming a nurse. There are direct-entry midwifery programs that prepare students to become Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) or Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs). [1] [2] Certified Professional Midwives are known for being "more natural and less intervention ...