Download the petition supporting the option to have Nurse-midwives attend births in Orange County Hospitals, get 25 people to sign and bring it to the September 23 meeting at UCI.
CABO presents:
Town Hall Meeting
Palo Verde Commons
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
September 23rd at 6:30pm
Also download PRINTABLE Town Hall Meeting Flyer and spread the word about the next meeting…let your voice be heard!
The MISSION of the Community Alliance for Birth Options (CABO) is to protect access to options for childbirth, including collaborative practice of nurse-midwives and physicians in hospitals.
As a board certified family physician, I have attended births in homes, in birth centers, and in hospitals, working alongside Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Professional Midwives, and midwives with other or no credentials. My experience supports the medical literature: More choices and options for women result in better outcomes and happier families. Midwifery care is excellent, evidence-based, patient-centered care. Healthy women expecting healthy babies have a similar chance of being the healthy living mother of a healthy living child attended by a midwife or a physician in a home, a birth center, or a hospital. But a women who is attended by a physician in a hospital is much more likely to emerge from the birth journey with a scar on her uterus or her perineum. And she is much less likely to breast feed here baby. It is in the interest of women and children’s health to preserve the option of CNM care in the hospital wherever it still exists and to expand its availability to all childbearing women.