Study Groups for Student Midwives

If you are looking for a midwifery study group in California, contact , the Secretary for California Association of Midwives.

If you are seeking a midwifery organization outside of California, click here: socalbirth.org/resource/contacts.htm

A "Student Packet" is available for $15.00 from Midwives Alliance of North America.

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Midwifery Study Group

Meadowborn Midwifery Study Group meets in Ventura, California monthly. Classes are taught by professional midwives for their peers, apprentices, labor companions and childbirth educators. For schedule, go to:

Midwifery-Related Events in Southern California
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Midwifery Organizations

American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM)
1522 K St., ste. 1000
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.acnm.org

Association of Radical Midwives
Greetby Hall, Ormskirk
Lancashire, England l39 2DT

California Association of Midwives (CAM)
PO Box 460606
San Francisco, CA 94146-0606
800-829-5791

Citizens for Midwifery
PO Box 82227
Athens, GA 30608-2227
316-267-7236
http://www.cfmidwifery.org

Friends of Homebirth
103 N. Pearl St.
Big Sandy, TX 75755

Midwifery Education and Accreditation Council (MEAC)
318 W. Birch #5
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
520-214-099
e-mail:

Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
PO Box 175
Newton, KS 67114
316-283-4543
http//:www.mana.org
e-mail:

Midwives Alliance of Washington State(WA midwifery licenses reciprocal in Ca.)
1100 23rd Ave. East
Seattle, WA 96112

Midwives Association of Florida (FL midwifery licenses reciprocal in Ca.)
910 NE 120th St.
North Miami, FL 33161
305-893-3526

Midwifery Publications

The Birth Gazette
42 The Farm
Summertown, TN 38483

magazine & conference

Journal of Nurse-Midwifery
Elsevier North Holland
Vanderbilt Ave.
New York, NY 10017

Midwifery Today
PO Box 2672
Eugene, OR 97402
e-mail: Online Version

Mothering Magazine
PO Box 1690
Santa Fe, NM 8750

Special Delivery
The Newsletter of Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators (ALACE)
PO Box 382724
Cambridge, MA 02238-2724

The Aspiring Midwives' Recommended Reading:

Nurse-Midwifery
by Helen Varney

Human Labor and Birth
by Oxorne & Foote

A Textbook for Midwives
by Margaret Myles

A Guide to Physical Examination
by Barbara Bates

Becoming A Midwife
by Caroline Steiger

Holistic Midwifery
by Anne Frye

Heart and Hands
by Elizabeth Davis

Spiritual Midwifery
by Ina May Gaskin & The Farm Midwives

Helping Hands
by Carla Hartley

Many of these titles are available from:

• Global Maternal/Child Health Association

• Cutting Edge Press

  The Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators
  PO Box 382724
  Cambridge, MA 02238-2724
  617-441-2500
  

  Birth and Life Bookstore
  141 Commercial St,.NE
  Salem, OR 97301
  800-443-9942
  

  ICEA Bookmarks
  PO Box 20048
  Minneapolis, MN 55420
  617-854-8772

  Medea Books
  3739 Balboa #189
  San Francisco, CA 94121
  800-416-3332
  

  Informed Homebirth
  PO Box 3675
  Ann Arbor, MI 48106
  313-662-6857