Home Birth Summit

Come hear about the Best Practice Guidelines: Transfer from Planned Home Birth to Hospital from the Home Birth Summit Collaboration Work Group and how they can support practice and care in your own community. Hear from regional perinatal collaboratives around the country, and the perspectives of the various provider groups, from midwives to receiving physicians to emergency medical personnel, on improving care for women across providers and birth settings.  (1.5 MEAC CEUs applied for) 

Melissa Cheney

Melissa Cheney, PhD, CPM, LDM, will present an overview of the current studies underway using data from the MANA Statistics Project, one of the projects of the MANA Division of Research, and on finding ways the data can be used to inform practice.  Join us to also hear an update on VBAC, and on the issues involved in using social media to highlight and disseminate research findings on home birth.  (1.5 MEAC CEUs applied for) 

Sarah Buckley

NACPM is delighted to welcome Sarah Buckley, MD, to present her exciting research on the hormonal physiology of birth, and how hormonal systems contribute to optimal outcomes for mothers and babies.  Dr. Buckley, trained family physician, mother of four, and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering will present the findings from her upcoming report soon to be published byChildbirth Connection, a core program of the National Partnership for Women and Families.

This webinar will also include an overview of plans for dissemination of this groundbreaking report, and how CPMs can contribute to ensuring that this information expands access to physiologic birth in communities across the country.  Collaborative initiatives from NACPM, ACNM and MANA to support providers, policy makers, health systems and consumers in increasing access to physiologic birth will also be discussed. (1.5 MEAC CEUs applied for)