As COVID surged through New York in April and women scrambled to find community midwives, the harms of this history were laid bare: demand for home birth far outpaced supply, and hospital maternity care providers lacked the skills and training to safely support physiologic births in out of hospital locations with the least exposure to COVID.
In this session, I share from my reporting on how and why the Certified Midwife credential was created, what it meant for community birth, and how it fares today. In the early 1990s there was promise of a licensed direct-entry midwife credential that would benefit home birth midwives as well as nurse-midwives, who desired a pathway separate from nursing. From the 1970s through the 1980s, home birth midwives flourished across the state, especially around the Syracuse area. Certified Professional Midwives remain illegal in several states, including New York, where one CPM is currently facing 95 felony charges.
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