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contributing to the direction and planning of the project please also reach out to Eugenia. The project is in need of volunteers who would be interested in helping with posting content and creating video interviews. As always be sure to tag you personal posts with #nycmidwives

The Midwife Project needs your photos of birth, portraits of a midwife working, self-portraits, a blog post or a statement. Please email your contributions, along with a signed consent form, to Eugenia Montesinos, LM (memontesinos@aol.com/917-841-4558). If you are interested in

traditionally overlooked in innovation spaces and that’s why we need YOU to bring your fire, passion, and brilliant ideas to revolutionize Black breastfeeding in the United States” (blackbreastfeeding.org) Visit blackbreastfeedingweek.org/why-we-need-bl… read more about #blackbreastfeedingweek

Join NYC Midwives in celebrating Black Breastfeeding Week! This beautiful image is reposted from @wearekarasi. “It's the 7th annual Black Breastfeeding Week. This year, the theme is The World is Yours: Imagine. Innovate. Liberate! The voices of black families have been

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roles to the community. Sign up as an individual to run or get your friends, family and colleagues to form a team to sponsor you!  Sponsor a table at the Birth Fair for your business- Let the NYC birth and midwifery world know about your business!

Saturday October 5th in Prospect Park Brooklyn at 8:30am DON'T MISS OUT!  Sign up soon! This year marks the 17th Annual Miles for Midwives 5K Fun-Run and Birth Fair. The event brings together the birth and midwifery community, runners, families and midwifery supporters for a day

Read more about this recently introduced bill, to support midwifery education and further integration of #midwives in the US!” #MidwivesMakeADifference

Repost from @acnmmidwives: “#Midwifery Advocates: we need you! With the August Congressional recess in full swing, this is the perfect time to contact or meet with your legislators to get their support for the #MidwivesforMoms Act (HR3849)!

We want your blog entries! Would you like a chance to contribute with a blog post? Let us know! Email communications@nycmidwives.org and see what your colleagues have already shared with us by clicking the link below nycmidwives.org/blog

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* Moving the venue of the Midwifery Today 2020 conference to a location that welcomes LGBTQ midwives to attend and speak * Diversifying the speakers at the conference to hear from more midwives of color and midwives who are LGBTQ identified.

Demand Midwifery Today end discriminatory policies at conferences: let LGBTQ people speak!

Mistreatment is exacerbated by unexpected obstetric interventions, and by patient-provider disagreements.” We must take steps to ensure that every mother is heard and respectethat d! Link to article: …tive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

mistreatment in maternity care. Their findings suggest that “mistreatment is experienced more frequently by women of colour, when birth occurs in hospitals, and among those with social, economic or health challenges.

The Giving Voices to Mothers study highlights the importance of the mother’s voice in maternity care. Led by Saraswathi Vedam, an Associate Professor of Midwifery at the University of British Columbia, the study was designed using the World Health Organization’s framework for

do not define woman, there is an opportunity for discussion and advocacy with state regulatory bodies for inclusion of this care within the midwifery scope of practice.” Reproductive tights are LGBTQ rights! Link to article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jm…

interpreted to include anyone who self‐identifies as such, regardless of organs present or sex assigned at birth. Some midwives are concerned that caring for transfeminine individuals falls outside of state laws delineating midwifery scope of practice. Because most state laws

The article “Midwifery Care for Transfeminine Individuals” in The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health sheds light on effective and empathetic healthcare for transgender and nonbinary folks. “There is longstanding consensus that midwives care for persons with breasts, ovaries,