Home Birth

Midwife Services Demonstration: Behind the Curtain

By |2017-02-10T09:50:24-07:00May 24th, 2013|Licensing|

 This week there were about 120 home-birth enthusiasts demonstrating in front of our building for about 3 hours.  The crowd was expressing their unhappiness about our draft regulations for Licensed Midwives.  You might have also seen the Arizona Republic article on the demonstration. As I’ve written before, we started the process of revising the rules for [...]

Midwife Scope of Practice Draft Proposal

By |2017-02-10T09:50:46-07:00January 11th, 2013|Licensing|

Our next Midwifery Scope of Practice Advisory Committee meeting will be Monday (January 14th) from 6-8 pm in the Lab conference room.  The Agenda is packed with 2 full hours of information and discussion.  We’ll be reviewing data from other states, and what scopes of practice they allow, as well as reviewing our own data collected from [...]

Using Evidence to Reach Consensus

By |2017-02-10T09:50:49-07:00December 11th, 2012|General, Licensing|

Some of you might remember a protest about a year ago in front of our 150 Building.  About 100 folks were carrying placards asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ.  They were mostly young families and some licensed midwives- and they were urging us to change our licensing rules for midwives.  That day [...]

Midwifery & the Democratic Process

By |2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00March 28th, 2012|Licensing|

Here's a short story about using the democratic process to get things done.  Some of you might remember a protest last December in front of our 150 Building.  About 100 folks or so were carrying placards in front of our building asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ.  Many of you probably [...]

Home Birth Protest

By |2011-12-06T08:14:45-07:00December 6th, 2011|General, Licensing|

Those of you that were working at our downtown campus last Wednesday afternoon may have seen the 100 or so folks carrying placards in front of our 150 Building.  They were asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ.  How can we do that, you ask?  Many of you probably didn’t [...]

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