Nebraska Friends of Midwives is a consumer-based organization seeking to raise public awareness
of the benefits and advantages of employing
midwives, both independent Midwives and Certified
Nurse-Midwives, through public education efforts.
We are working to help facilitate a change in
the laws of Nebraska to allow midwives to practice
more openly and with greater independence. It
is our goal to see the laws of Nebraska changed
to specifically recognize and license the practice of independent
Midwives—who practice primarily in homes and
receive their training in a variety of ways—and to change the law which currently prohibits
Certified Nurse-Midwives from attending home
births. We support the right of women to make
an educated decision about where and with whom she will give
birth.
