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Our nation’s most comprehensive resource on free-standing birth centers, is a multi-disciplinary membership organization comprised of individuals and organizations who support the birth center concept. Resources for parents are avilable.

Professional association for CNMs, also locator service on web site for parents.

Your doula career starts here. Looking for birth, postpartum, or end-of-life doula training and certification? This is the place.

Promotes the Midwives Model of Care™ as the best care for pregnancy and birth. The only national consumer-based group. CfM works to provide information and resources that promote the local midwife, as well as midwives and midwifery care across the country!

Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, Resources for promoting a wellness model of maternity care, Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative™