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Webinar recording now available:
Emerging Models of Midwifery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thank you for registering for FAM's April 3 webinar on "Emerging Models of Midwifery During the COVID-19 Pandemic" featuring Seattle, Washington and Miami, Florida. If you could not attend live, or would like to watch again or share with others, you can access the full recording on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/406279606.

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Speakers:

Jamarah Amani, LM
Emily Jones, MS Midwifery, Class of 2020, Bastyr University
Jen Segadelli, JD, MSM, CPM
Tara Lewal, MS, RN

In this webinar series, midwives working in community settings (home and birth center) will share information on their models for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will feature a range of communities across the U.S. Community responses vary due to their own context of existing integration of community providers, access to technology, impacts of racism, and cultural values and beliefs.

Special thanks to Lactation Education Resources for hosting the webinar on their platform.

FAM on Midwives and COVID-19

FAM's Policy Statement “Out-of-Hospital Birth and Pandemic Planning”:
This document outlines the role of midwives in providing maternity care outside of the hospital during a pandemic, and the need to immediately remove barriers to midwifery care in homes and freestanding birth centers. We encourage advocates to use and share this as a basis for the local policies you need to support midwives and the families they serve.

MomsRising article "Midwives on the front lines of COVID-19"
by FAM Executive Director Tamara Wrenn and FAM Board President Emily Anesta
"Midwives are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether serving in hospitals, birth centers, or homes, midwives are providing essential health care. Midwives are experiencing a sharp increase in demand for their care in community birth settings: homes and freestanding birth centers. Community birth in a pandemic supports the need to reduce the spread of disease through social distancing while preserving much-needed hospital capacity for lifesaving care of COVID-19 patients." Read more

A note about FAM: Please rest assured that FAM is practicing physical distancing, and we continue, as always, to do our work remotely. We are primarily volunteer-driven, with one part-time staff person. Some of us are practicing midwives, with a huge surge in client load right now. Some of us are caring for children or other family members at home. All of us have to deal with the stress and uncertainty this moment brings. None of us, during this pandemic, are at our usual capacity for productivity. We recognize the reality of this moment, and must take each week, each day, as it comes.

We know that many are struggling and facing financial uncertainty at this time. If you have the capacity to give, please consider supporting midwifery.

You can make a tax-deductible donation online or mail a check to FAM at PO Box 744, Harriman, NY, 10926.

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Webinar recording now available: Emerging Models of Midwifery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

FAM on Midwives and COVID-19

Webinar recording now available:
Emerging Models of Midwifery During the COVID-19 Pandemic