A directory of home-birth midwives is only useful if the people in it actually attend home births. Here is exactly how we decide who is listed, in plain terms.
Most midwife directories pull names from the federal provider registry and publish everyone. That registry tells you someone is a credentialed midwife. It does not tell you whether they attend home births, most credentialed midwives work in hospitals. So we don't publish that raw list. A midwife appears only after we confirm home-birth practice.
We confirm in one of these ways, strongest first:
We exclude hospital-only nurse-midwives, retired practitioners, and anyone we cannot tie to home-birth practice.
It means the person is a real midwife confirmed to practice home birth. It does not promise that every detail is current to the day, practices change, people move, some step back from births. That is why every listing has a way to be corrected.
Are you a midwife with a listing that is wrong, or do you want to be removed? No account needed. Removal requests are honored immediately.
Correct or remove your listingQuestions? Email [email protected].