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This letter is for our clients and your family and friends and anyone you know who is interested in a pregnant person’s right to deliver their babies at home in the state of New Jersey.
New Jersey Licensed Midwives (CNMs, CPMs, and CMs) provide homebirth services to many New Jersey families in the state safely and respectfully. People have many reasons for choosing homebirth. Whether you agree or disagree with their choice, you must agree that they HAVE THAT CHOICE!
The pandemic creates a need to deliver babies outside of the hospitals. At one point, hospitals considered moving labor and delivery completely into surgical centers to keep healthy women and babies safe. During the pandemic, many of our clients changed their planned hospital birth to an out-of-hospital birth. Our clients are fortunate, we are skilled in delivering babies in and out of the hospital so it was an easy transition. We heard from many other people who wanted to transfer to us. We accepted as many transfers as we could.
Homebirth is safe and legal in New Jersey. Homebirth is most safe when offered within a healthcare system that provides for consultation, collaboration, transfer of care, and efficient, non-judgmental emergency care. Currently, Midwives need to have a “consulting agreement” with an OB/GYN to practice in New Jersey.
The Midwives of New Jersey along with several other area Midwives have provided homebirth in northern New Jersey for many years. There are only a few physicians who support Midwives working in the community. These physicians are strong supporters of your birth choices, but homebirth availability remains precarious and out of the Midwives’ control. The Midwives of New Jersey is not currently affected in that we have a collaborating physician, but we want to support our fellow Midwives. The ability to continue to provide home birth is in jeopardy due to the decreasing number of supportive physicians and we hope you will help us ensure that homebirth will be available in the future with or without a collaborating agreement with a physician.
Please join us as we request an emergency executive order from Governor Murphy which allows out-of-hospital birth to be available during the Pandemic. Concurrently we will be working with his administration on a long-term plan to allow independent practice for Midwives caring for low-risk patients like the Midwives in California.
Attached is the letter we would like you to personalize and send to the government officials listed. Your voice WILL make change. Please speak up for the birthing families of New Jersey!
Thank you,
Midwives of New Jersey
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