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A place in cyberspace for California LMs to keep in touch, get to know one another, share personal or professional news, be informed about the Mfry Council and the politics of practicing under the Medical Board of California

16/09/2012

California-Midwives.com is a new WordPress website for Ca LMs. Here are the new web's 6 topical categories and what i hope are new & interesting) articles or documents for each category,

News ~ Sept 20th, 2012 ~ Mfry Advisory Council “Task Force” meeting – MCB’ state office in Sacramento

New Posts ~ Canadian Studies - abstract for (a) collaboration midwives & docs (b) policies promoting normal childbirth-reduce OB interventions

Mfry Council ~ LMAR Summary for 2007-2010 – an overview
Under "Student Issues" -->MBC 1985 ACTION REPORT's "Definition of what is and isn’t an illegal practice of medicine"

Medical Board ~ under "Info for Med Board members": 1. DCA document Gov. Brown’s administration support and advocacy for SB 1896 2. MBC Oral Presentation “Historical Issues in the Implementation of the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act” ~ March 1, 1992

Best Practices ~ on-line source for the LMPA, Regs & Standards + California College of Midwives’ practical definition of a “Planned (intended) Home/OOH birth” and California College of Midwives’ “Incident Report”

Web Links --> Sister Sites & Mfry-Maternity Care On-line E-groups and video Licensed Midwifery Care ~ Teresa McClean, LM, CPM

Whenever new posts or important documents are added to CaLM, I will post a message on our FB wall and on the CAmidwives Yahoo email group. I also take "requests" if there is information you want to be added to the CaLM's website. faith ^O^

13/08/2012

Announcing 5 new sibling websites:

In addition to my College of Midwives site and Healthcare 2.0 (, I recently developed a complimentary set of smaller, 'sibling' websites for each of the important topics in life -- midwifery, normalizing childbirth practices, and how religious ethics impact national politics. I used WordPress, which provides the opportunity for two-way interactions - blogging comments, requests and feedback. Here's the new list:
(1) Faithgibson.org - The Politics of Normal Childbirth ~ helping to end the Hundred Years War between Midwifery & Medicine
(2) iBirth.org - An educational archive for students & professionals on physiologically-based practices for childbearing in a healthy population
(3) California College of Midwives - Legal, Legislative & Political Issues for CaLMs & relationship w/ our regulatory agency, the Medical Board of California
(4) OneTrueThing.us - "The Middle Way ~ Identifying the best examples of democratic ideals, religious philosophies, and public policies in the interest of social justice & a fair economy
(5) Garden Party Patriotism - People-farming in the garden of democracy, growing American citizenship as an active verb

Would love your feedback. If you find them helpful, 'like' them on FB and spread the word on your email groups.

02/07/2012

RE: The anti-planned home birth rant on the Daily Beast -- I just post the 2nd installment of information on my website (faithgibson.org) for anyone interested in making thoughtful and informative comments on Michelle Goldberg's Wednesday's blog: "Home birth - increasingly popular but dangerous".

27/06/2012

As many of you know, a well-respected woman journalist, Michelle Goldberg, just posted a blog on The Daily Beast called "Home Birth: Increasingly popular but dangerous".

It is an account of home birth mfry that did not have a good outcome. According to the description, it was poor care, but I don't have any actual facts so who knows. She also excoriates the CPM credential.

Someone who knew this article was in the works provided me with Ms Goldberg's private e-dress and suggested that I provide helpful information. I sent that email off to Michelle just hours before the piece appeared on-line.

So I just posted the story and the first installment the information I emailed to Ms. Goldberg on my childbirth politics web site (faithgibson.org). Tomorrow and the next day I will post parts 2 and 3 of the information i put together.

I suggest that anyone who feels moved to rebut this misinformation can copy whatever part of this material (large or small) and use it to post a corrective comments on the Daily Beast blog.

It would be helpful if a whole lot of people posted 1 or 2 small paragraphs of useful explanations.

As some of you know, i have already posted information about the safe care provided by California LMs on the California midwives website (california-midwives.com). Some of the information from the LMAR might be helpful.

23/06/2012

Announcing a big sister for our California Licensed Midwives FB group page. CaLM on Facebook has just been joined by a new stand-alone website called "california-midwives.com".

Check it out - recent posts include an article originally published in the Journal of Family Practice (Dec 2011) on collaboration btw medical doctors and non-physician practitioners.

Also posted is my letter to Dr. Bishop and links to webcast for the Feb 3rd Medical Board meeting on mfry and the March 29th Interested Parties meeting (Dr. Haskins and Dr. Fischbein).

23/06/2012

ANNOUNCEMENT ~ The California Licensed Midwives' FB page has been joined by its own blog-enabled web site. Check it out @

02/05/2012

This is second part of the conversation btw the MD members of the Medical Board on proposed reg #2. That regulation specifically deals with the providing access to the prophylactic and emergency drugs that were incorporated into the LMPA and are necessary to the safe and responsible practice of midwifery in any OOH setting.

12/04/2012

At the Mar 29th "Interested Parties" mtg, Ruth Haskins, former vice-chair of the Mfry Council for 5 years, & Dr. Stuart Fischbein both characterize the practice and political issues surrounding 2 proposed regulation defining the "appropriate level of supervision" as a collaborative relationship and whether this would be acceptable to ACOG and the med-mal carriers (No!)

10/04/2012

Part one (of 4) video/audio of the comments by consumers, lobbyists,obstetricians, mothers and midwives. This section includes Carrier Sparrevohn, Alison Obsborn, Catherine Dower and CMA Lobbyist Ms Chung. NEXT section include great testimony Dr. Fischbein, OB for LA

05/04/2012

Part I (of 2) The staff & attorneys of the Medical Board of California explain proposed mfry regulations about LM-MD collaboration and access to necessary medical supplies, labs & US services, preventative & emergent drugs. Physician ask questions and debate the merits of these issues.

03/04/2012

Seated members of the California Medical Board discuss whether or not to go forward w/ a regulatory hearing for a mfry-related regulation. This reg would permitting LMs to obtain the drugs, medical supplies and order diagnostic/lab tests that they are part of the LMPA's educational curriculum and the mfry standard of care and necessary to the safe practice of out-of hospital-planned home birth (PHB) midwifery

03/04/2012

This regulation is to accompany the LMPA's educational curriculum, which include training in the use of several prophylactics and emergency drugs, as well as the mfry standard of care. The LMPA trains midwives and the Standard describes their appropriate use. However, many medical supply companies will not permit midwives to purchase these drugs. Diagnostic companies and labs often claim that LMs are not authorized to order their medical services ordering. This regulation is to fix that problem.

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