11/18/2022
🌊 Certified Professional Midwife 🌊
I will start by saying I don’t believe you need official initials after your name to be able to call yourself a midwife. There is so much to piece apart and heal within the community of midwives of all kinds.
However, this is the journey that was right for me—that I INTENTIONALLY chose.
People deserve choices on where to give birth. And let me just tell you…this journey was intense, as it should be for this profession.
I spent the last 4 years driving minimum 10-15hrs/week, taking 18 hours of classes year round to earn my second Bachelor’s degree, working in a full time clinical placement and being on call pretty much constantly, attending close to 200 births, obtaining skills sign offs for All. The. Things., barely keeping a house running, saying goodbye to my whole social life, and doing the majority of my training in the midst of a global pandemic where I ended up ‘homeschooling’ 2 kids for 1.5 years….
Mostly, I am not putting this into writing to tell you how awesome I am (although my therapist says I am apparently allowed to be proud of myself 🙃)—I am however putting this here to say that the training to become a CPM is insane (once again, rightly so) BUT Georgia still refuses to acknowledge this pathway of midwifery.
We can do better. We must do better.
So, while I celebrate my accomplishments, I also mourn the current state of our maternity care and hope that one day Georgia will join the 35ish other states that are makin moves.
