Downloadable Position Statements Related to the Practice of Midwifery

MAWS POSITION STATEMENT: Shared Decision Making. Created April 2008 (PDF)

ACNM, MANA & NACPM POSITION STATEMENT on Supporting Healthy and Normal Physiologic Childbirth. (LINK)

Compilation of Position Statements on Home Birth

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Midwives Alliance of North America MANA Position Statements

• Access to Midwifery Care
• Midwifery Certification
• National Health Policy
• The Decriminalization of Midwifery
• Intervention in Childbirth
• The Midwifery Relationship with Women
• Policy Making and Resource Allocation
• Third Party Reimbursement
• Home Birth
• Midwifery Education

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New Zealand College of Midwives NZCOM Consensus Statements and Guidelines
(below are links to PDF documents)

Alcohol and Pregnancy Artificial Rupture of Membranes Breastfeeding Cervical Screening Complementary Therapies Family Violence Fetal Monitoring in Labour Gestational Diabetes Group B Strep HIV Screening Immunisation Informed Consent Mentoring

Midwives Using Ultrasound Normal Birth Oral Health Prescribing Roles and Responsibilities Safe Sleeping Sexually Transmitted Infections The Role of Non-regulated Support People Third Stage Unapproved drugs VBAC Vitamin K Waterbirth

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Royal College of Midwives of the UK Practice Guidelines
(below are links to PDF documents)

This updated Edition of RCM Evidence based guidelines for midwifery-led care in labour (2012) provides midwives with a comprehensive discussion of currently available evidence for UK midwives to follow in practice.

• Introduction
• Birth Environment
• Latent Phase
• Supporting Women in Labour
• Supporting and Involving Women’s Birth Companions
• Immersion in Water for Labour and Birth
• Understanding Pharmacological Pain Relief
• Intermittent Auscultation
• Assessing Progress in Labour
• Rupturing Membranes
• Positions for Labour and Birth
• Persistent lateral and posterior fetal positions at the onset of labour
• Nutrition in labour
• Second Stage of Labour
• Third Stage of Labour
• Care of the Perineum
• Suturing the Perineum
• Immediate Care of the Newborn
• Early Breastfeeding

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Royal College of Midwives of the UK RCM Position Statements
(below are links to PDF documents)

• Abortion Counselling
• Caring for Childbearing Prisoners
• Complementary and alternative therapies
• Domestic abuse: pregnancy, birth and the puerperium
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Infant feeding
• Maternity Support Workers
• Normal childbirth
• Staffing Standard in Midwifery Services
• Smoking in public places
• Woman Centred Care
• RCM, RCGP &RCOG Consensus statement on the role of the General Practitioner in Maternity Care PDF
  (Joint Consensus statement with The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) October 2011
• RCOG/RCM statement on umbilical cord blood collection and banking PDF
  (Joint Statement with Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) August 2011
• Home Births PDF
  (Joint Statement with Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) April 2007
• Immersion in Water During Labour and Birth PDF
  (Joint Statement with Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) April 2006

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Canadian Association of Midwives CAM Position Statements
(below are links to PDF documents)

• Position Statement on Normal Birth January 2010
• Position Statement on Breastfeeding December 2007
• Position Statement on Elective Cesarean Section June 2004
• Position Statement on Home Birth March 2001

Joint Statements

• Joint Statement on Breastfeeding CAM/CNA May 2008
• Joint Statement on Liability Protection for Midwives and Physicians June 2007

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