We extend strength and support for the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) profession and influence birth health policy to ensure that all childbearing people and babies of Georgia have a healthy start and aspiring midwives have access to training and education.
What is a CPM?
A Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) is a knowledgeable, skilled and professional primary maternity care provider. Certified Professional Midwives are trained and credentialed to offer expert care, education, counseling and support to women for pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. CPMs practice as autonomous health professionals working within a network of relationships with other maternity care providers who can provide consultation and collaboration when needed. All Certified Professional Midwives meet the standards for certification set by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM).
The National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) is the membership organization specifically representing Certified Professional Midwives (CPM) in the United States. Certified Professional Midwives provide unique and critical access to normal physiologic birth, which profoundly benefits childbearing people and newborns. Founded in 2000, NACPM ensures a powerful and collective voice for Certified Professional Midwives. NACPM directs its influence toward improving outcomes for childbearing people and their infants, developing and strengthening the profession, and informing public policy with the values inherent in CPM care.
Do you envision a primary birth care system in Georgia where all birthing people can access care through a midwife, where birth place is the choice of the family, and where all childbearing people and their babies have the same chance to be healthy.?
Do you envision a midwifery community where all aspiring midwives have access to education, community, and credentials?
If you are already a CPM, CNM, or student midwife, interested in furthering the CPM, please join us! First you will be asked to join NACPM and then select our chapter to join as well.
