What is the midwife’s educational background?
I am a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). This means that my initial health care education is as a registered, and that I then successfully completed a graduate-level course in midwifery, which made me eligible to take a national certification exam. Having passed that exam, I became a CNM. In addition, I am regulated in Texas by the Board of Nurse Examiners (BNE), and comply with their standards. In Texas, this means that I am registered as an RN and as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). I am a member of our local, state and national midwifery organization, and I comply with continuing education requirements, both for nursing and midwifery. How many births have you attended? I have attended over 800 births, approximately 100 in a birth center and the rest at home. Who comes to the birth? Usually I and an associate midwife come to the birth. In the unlikely event of two persons being in labor at the same time, one of us would be at each birth. With my small caseload, this rarely happens and
