Midwifery

All over the world midwives are “with women” during the most significant experiences of their lives: childbirth.  Over 80 percent of babies born in the world today are received into the caring, skillful hands of a midwife.

Midwives are specialists in normal reproductive care.  During their education, midwives become experts in normal pregnancy, birth and newborn care, and they recognize that pregnancy and birth are normal functions, not illnesses. Midwives are trained to recognize abnormal conditions and to provide stabilizing care until additional help is available.  Midwives also provide well-woman care including annual exams, pap smears, contraceptive counseling and care and also care for the menopausal woman.

The level of prenatal care, education, birth and postpartum care midwives provide results in a low rate of technological intervention, a low cesarean section rate, and healthy babies.  Midwives offer a preventive, holistic model of care, a more personal relationship with their clientele, and a philosophy of care that recognizes the importance of parental responsibility and choice within the birth process.

Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM’s) are educated in both nursing and midwifery.  After attending an educational program accredited by the American College of Nurse-Midwives certification Council (ACC), they must pass the ACC examination and can be licensed in the individual states in which they practice.  Certified nurse midwives practice most often in hospitals and birth centers

Anne Mishler, CNM
Anne Mishler is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) with Maternal Health Clinic
and The Maple Center. She serves as faculty for the Union
Hospital Family Practice Residency program through the
Maternal Health Clinic.  Anne became the first practicing Nurse
Midwife in the Wabash Valley area.  Certified through
the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACC), Anne 
graduated from St. Elizabeth School of Nursing with a
diploma in nursing. She returned to college after working
as an OB nurse for several years and earned her BSN from
Purdue University.  Anne later achieved a Nurse-Midwifery
certificate from Frontier School of Nurse-Midwifery
and Family Nursing, Hyden, KY and her MSN form Case
Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, OH.