National Midwifery Week (#MidwiferyWeek2024) was created by ACNM to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. It's time to display your pride in the hallmarks of midwifery that you deliver every day; this week is for you and about you.

This year's theme is "Midwives Looking to the Future." Rigorous scientific evidence demonstrates that care provided by midwives improves birth outcomes and patient experiences. The evidence also supports the importance of the integration and expansion of midwifery to the improvement of health outcomes across states and nations. The profession of midwifery is rooted in the past but essential to the future. Scaling up midwifery could help reduce adverse health outcomes, even in resource-constrained environments such as rural communities and could be implemented with successful outcomes at any stage of a country?s transition to lower maternal and newborn mortality rates. Midwifery care can be cost-effective, affordable, and sustainable. National governments should invest in deploying midwives and national health plans should have a strategy to scale up midwifery.

Each day of National Midwifery Week will feature opportunities for education and connection, and ACNM Members can attend every event this week for FREE to receive CEs. Learn more at midwife.org/national-midwifery-week