I urge the Virginia Board of Medicine to find a way to permit licensed midwives (Certified Professional Midwives) to possess, carry and administer emergency medications (anti-hemorrhagics, oxygen, IV fluids) and standard maternal and newborn medications.  Currently, CPMs are trained and fully certified to administer these medications. Because their use is expressly part of the CPM scope of practice outlined in the current NARM Job Analysis, which is the statutory standard in the Virginia Code, when mothers obtain a precription from their own provider for emergency labor or standard maternal or newborm medications, their CPM/LM should legally be allowed to administer them.  Failure to permit midwives to practice to the full scope of their training and certification puts mothers and babies at risk.