Lamaze Resources for National Midwifery Week

Lamaze International proudly recognizes National Midwifery Week, Oct. 6–12, 2024. This annual recognition week was created by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. Lamaze supports and celebrates the midwives who make up our international community. As you acknowledge #MidwiferyWeek2024, reflect on its theme of “Midwives Looking to the Future” and consider how you can use the Lamaze Six Healthy Birth Practices in tandem with the midwifery mission of providing care to improve birth outcomes and patient experiences.

Check out Lamaze blogs, podcasts, articles from The Journal of Perinatal Education and educational resources from the Lamaze Learning Center to reference when acknowledging your work as a midwife, recognizing your midwife colleagues or recommending midwifery care to clients, this week and beyond.

The Lamaze Podcast

• Seeking Better: The Midwifery Model of Care
• Birth and Midwifery Care in Indonesia: Saving Lives at Bumi Sehat
• Birth Work and Racial Disparities: A Passage From Labor and Delivery Nurse to Activist and Midwife

Like what you hear? Access all episodes of The Lamaze Podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Season 4’s newest episodes are dropping twice a month!

Journal of Perinatal Education

• Transition to Parenthood: Antenatal Education Promotes Perinatal Mental Health When Collaboratively Delivered by Midwives, Mental Health Peer Workers and Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Professionals
• Integrating Community Health Workers and Nurse Midwives on the Health-Care Team to Improve Birth and Breastfeeding Outcomes
• Advancing Physiologic Birth Through Midwifery and Community Birth
• Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Midwifery
• Midwifery-Led Maternity Care: Back to Basics
• Midwifery Care: Reflections of Midwifery Clients
• Doula, Sister, Aunt, Storyteller: A Midwife’s Retelling of Birth

The Journal of Perinatal Education (JPE) is a Lamaze membership benefit. You may be asked to log into your member account before reading the articles. Learn more about JPE and access past issues here.

Connecting the Dots and Giving Birth With Confidence Blogs

• Celebrating National Midwifery Week 2023: Honoring Midwives in Childbirth Education Classes
• How What We Know About Midwifery Can Change Breastfeeding for All Families
• Midwifery as a Birth Option? — Tools for Educators to Share With Families
• 10 Facts About Midwives to Celebrate National Midwifery Week in the USA
• Close Up on Midwifery Care: A New Study Published in the Journal of Perinatal Education
• The Importance of Black Midwives, Then, Now, and Tomorrow
• What Does It Mean to Choose a Midwife for Your Birth?
• Midwifery Myth Busting: 5 Things You May Not Know About Midwives

Read more research and resources for perinatal professionals on the Connecting the Dots blog, and check out information for parents on the Giving Birth With Confidence blog.

Lamaze Learning Center

• Embracing the Journey Within: Nurturing Mental Health in Pregnancy through Mindfulness and Meditation
• JPE 31.4: Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Midwifery & Community Birth Settings

Check out all of the education Lamaze offers for childbirth educators and perinatal professionals, now available in the new Lamaze Learning Center!

Your perspectives and insights matter to the Lamaze International community. Are you a midwife with a best practice or story to share? Reach out to Content Manager Morgan Manghera at mmanghera@lamaze.org to find out how you can share your perspectives and get published on Lamaze’s blogs.