Moms in Delaware do not have access to non-nurse midwives to attend their planned homebirths which account for less than one percent of all births across the country. Yet our maternal mortality, cesarean and other devastating rates continue to climb. If you would like to make a difference in Delaware, please download the PDF final below named delaware_midwife.pdf and send it in to your local legislators, change-makers, media representatives, etc. We need to speak up and out if we want birth to be safer in Delaware again. By taking away our right to qualified care where we decide to give birth, birth itself then becomes less safe as women will: Leave our state to labor, birth without a birth attendant at home or birth in the hospital when she otherwise would have chosen to birth at home. Current Delaware Statistics which could drastically improve with better access to midwives:
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Keep up with the Story: Freedom to safe birth options denied, Investigators visit Delaware families Update: Delaware Dept. of Health response puzzling at best, women's freedoms still in question
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