Communications Team

I hope everyone is enjoying the spring weather. Thank you all for your membership. Your contributions to CNMA keep us in the fight, help the people we serve, our communities, and the midwifery profession. We aim to increase access to midwifery care, improve maternal-child health care outcomes with a specific focus on reducing racism-based disparities, and advance sexual and reproductive healthcare in California. Thank you for your continued support!

Whenever I’m out in public—at the bank, in the park, or in the grocery store chatting with someone in line—and I mention that I’m a midwife, I’m often met with curiosity. I explain what a midwife does, where someone might access midwifery care, and how a midwife differs from an obstetrician or a doula. I find myself thinking about ways to raise public awareness of what midwifery is.