Pushing to Protect Our Birth Rights
  • Home
  • About
    • Mission / Vision
    • History
    • Steering Committee
    • FAQs
  • What We Do
    • Our Services
    • PushStates in Action
    • Effective Handouts
  • Newsroom
  • Blog

Author Archives: PushGirl Friday

PushGirl Friday

Faster than a precipitous labor.
More powerful than a woman in birth.
Able to strike fear into the pocketbooks of Big and Defensive Medicine with a single PushAlert.

Look! Up in the sky!
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s PushGirl Friday!

Yes, it’s PushGirl Friday – powerful voice for real maternity-care reform in the United States with powers and abilities far beyond those of the mortal men and women who are trying to kill out-of-hospital birth options. PushGirl Friday – who can change the course of mighty legislative bodies, bend ears with the bare facts, and who, disguised as just one women (when in fact, she is comprised of thousands and thousands of advocates from across the great PushNation), fights the never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and Increased Access to Out-of-Hospital Birth and the Certified Professional Midwives specially trained to provide it.

Email PushGirl Friday The Big Push for Midwives

[PushNews] CDC Finds Continued Increase in Home Births

January 26, 2012
Comments closed
By PushGirl Friday

PushNews from The Big Push for Midwives Campaign CONTACT: Katherine Prown, (414) 550-8025, katie@pushformidwives.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2012  CDC Finds Continued Increase in Home Births Report Highlights Disparities in Access for Women of Color WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 26, 2012)—A report released by the CDC today found a 29 percent increase in home births from 2004 to 2009. The rate of home births among non-Hispanic white women underwent a dramatic increase, while the rate for women of color decreased or remained stagnant, a trend that reflects racial and ethnic disparities in other areas of maternity care throughout the U.S.

Posted in News Releases and Media Alerts, PushHeadlines, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged american college of obstetricians and gynecologists, CDC, Certified Professional Midwives, Eugene Declercq, home birth, National Center for Health Statistics, out-of-hospital birth, The Big Push for Midwives

Pushing for Midwives on Labor Day

September 5, 2011
Comments closed
By PushGirl Friday

TO:        PushList Members; BirthPolicy List Members; Leadership of the PushState Orgs FROM:   The Big Push for Midwives Campaign Steering Committee Greetings to all dear friends, colleagues, and fellow Pushers! The Big Push for Midwives Campaign has had an incredibly busy year! Pushing with you for Certified Professional Midwives, the Big Push is bearing down in the statehouses, on the Hill, and in the media. The Big Push campaign hosted its third PushSummit in August, gathering Pushers from all corners of the PushMap in a lovely little spot in Cary, NC to learn from each others’ successes and to…..

Posted in PushAppeal
Tagged Certified Professional Midwives, MyBirthTeam.com, out-of-hospital birth, PushSummit 2011, The Big Push for Midwives

Study: Two-Thirds of OB-GYN Clinical Guidelines Have No Basis in Science

August 15, 2011
Comments closed
By PushGirl Friday

PushNews from The Big Push for Midwives Campaign CONTACT: Katherine Prown, (414) 550-8025, katie@pushformidwives.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2011 Study: Two-Thirds of OB-GYN Clinical Guidelines Have No Basis in Science Majority of ACOG Recommendations for Patient Care Found to Be Based on Opinion and Inconsistent Evidence WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 15, 2011)—A study published this month in Obstetrics & Gynecology, the journal of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, found that barely one-third of the organization’s clinical guidelines for OB/GYN practice meet the Level A standard of “good and consistent scientific evidence.” The authors of the study found instead…..

Posted in Big Medicine, News Releases and Media Alerts, Research
Tagged american college of obstetricians and gynecologists, Certified Professional Midwives, fetal macrosomia, Goliath, OB-GYN Clinical Guidelines, Obstetrics & Gynecology, out-of-hospital birth, The Big Push for Midwives, unnecessary cesarean section

PushSummit 2011 | Aug 6 in NC

July 22, 2011
Leave a comment
By PushGirl Friday

Are you working toward licensure for Certified Professional Midwives in your state? Are you planning to? Are you concerned about the future of VBAC and HBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean and home birth after cesarean)? Have you been frustrated by lack of consensus and infighting within your local birth community? Have legislative road blocks, back-door dealings, and insider politics at the state capitol prevented your bill from advancing? If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then please join us at the PushSummit, on August 6 in Cary, NC, to learn from veteran birth activists who’ve been there…..

Posted in Advocacy Alerts, Events and Happenings
Tagged birth activists, Certified Professional Midwives, home birth, PushSummit 2011, The Big Push for Midwives

Don’t Let Goliath Push You Down

March 11, 2011
Comments closed
By PushGirl Friday

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign is pushing hard to ensure that Certified Professional Midwives are legally authorized to practice in all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam. And we’re proud to push hard, since our opponents, ACOG and OBGYN PAC, are working so fiercely together, raising and spending money big hand over closed fist on ads, telemarketing calls, and direct contributions to legislators’ campaign chests, all to protect the specific interests of its member OB/GYNs. In 2010, ACOG’s PAC raised nearly $900K and spent more than $680K of it (a 10-fold increase over what they raised for their…..

Posted in Big Medicine
Tagged american college of obstetricians and gynecologists, Certified Professional Midwives, Goliath, home birth, The Big Push for Midwives

TIME Magazine’s Home Birth Article

September 5, 2010
Leave a comment
By PushGirl Friday

Well, it’s online now, for all to see, TIME Magazine’s in-depth piece on out-of-hospital maternity care. Thank goodness the editors gave us access to the story online so that we could share and share with the entire PushNation! THANK YOU TIME! Thank you Catherine Elton! Please share this link with all of your peeps:  http://bit.ly/TIMEforHomeBirth

Posted in PushHeadlines
Tagged Should American Women Learn to Give Birth at Home?, TIME Magazine

Terrible Twos: Learning How to Talk

May 5, 2010
Leave a comment
By PushGirl Friday

The Big Push for Midwives Campaign represents the swiftly growing base of people in every state of the United States, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico who support expanding access to Certified Professional Midwives and out-of-hospital maternity care. Our common ground mission: to educate national and state policymakers about the reduced costs and improved outcomes associated with out-of-hospital maternity care. Collectively, we educate and advocate for expanding access to the services of Certified Professional Midwives, who are specially trained to provide it. We are envisioning a safer, less-costly model of maternity care in the United States.

Posted in Admin
Tagged american college of obstetricians and gynecologists, american medical association, Certified Professional Midwife, Certified Professional Midwives, home birth, International Day of the Midwife, maternity care, out-of-hospital birth, The Big Push for Midwives

  • TAKE ACTION

    • Join Your PushState
    • Visit the Newsroom
    • Donate

  • Connect

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Youtube
    • Flickr
    • Email
  • The Faces of the Big Push for Midwives

  • Get Your PushGear!

  • Connect on Facebook

  • Recently Tweeted

    Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.

  • Categories

  • RSS Links

    • All posts
    • All comments
  • Contact
  • Partners

Paid for by friends of The Big Push for Midwives Campaign

Copyright 2011.