I am a Birth Doula and I support Certified Professional Midwife/Licensed Midwife. I wanted to make the analysts and reviewers aware of an inconsistency in the regulations that impacts midwifery practice and public health. State law requires that a newborn be administered certain drugs within 24 hours of birth but the midwifery laws prevent us/them from carrying or administering these drugs. Furthermore, there are low risk procedures occasionally required during or after a birth that requires the administration of certain medications that the current law prohibits us/them from carrying and administering. Midwives are trained and competent to administer these drugs but current law is preventing them form administering these drugs creating an unnecessary burden for clients. 

Home Birth is safe and our community needs our midwives to have all tools possible to care for low-risk birthers.