IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1419 
Recognizing the roles and the contributions of United States certified nurse- 
midwives and certified midwives in providing high-quality, evidence-based, 
and cost-effective health care services to women and childbearing families. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 
Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD (for herself, Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER, Ms. CLARK of 
Massachusetts, and Mrs. HINSON) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the roles and the contributions of United States 
certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives in pro-
viding high-quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective 
health care services to women and childbearing families. 
Whereas certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified mid-
wives (CMs) are essential to the United States maternal 
health care system, providing a wide-range of health care 
services for women and childbearing families, including 
the independent provision of primary care, gynecologic 
services, preconception care, care during pregnancy, 
childbirth and the postpartum period, and care of the un-
complicated newborn during the first 28 days of life; 
Whereas CNMs and CMs care for women throughout their 
lifespan, from adolescence to post menopause, and attend 
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•HRES 1419 IH 
approximately 10 percent of our Nation’s births annually 
and serve as frontline essential health care providers; 
Whereas midwifery-led care is evidence-based and has been 
shown to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, rates 
of stillbirth, perineal trauma, instrumental births, 
intrapartum analgesia use, rates of severe blood loss, 
preterm birth, low birth weight, and neonatal hypo-
thermia, and has been associated with more efficient use 
of resources and improved outcomes including increased 
rates 
of 
spontaneous 
labor, 
vaginal 
birth, 
and 
breastfeeding; 
Whereas women and childbearing families who receive mid-
wifery-led care have higher rates of satisfaction, pain re-
lief in labor, and supported maternal-newborn inter-
action; 
Whereas CNMs and CMs play an integral role in improving 
health outcomes in all communities; 
Whereas midwifery-led care is a significant source of mater-
nal health services in rural, underserved and low- 
resourced and vulnerable communities, and CNMs and 
CMs attend over 30 percent of deliveries in rural hos-
pitals; 
Whereas CNMs and CMs provide care in every setting in 
which maternal and women’s health care services are de-
livered, including hospitals, private office practices, public 
health departments, community health centers, rural 
health centers, the Armed Forces, the Veterans Health 
Administration, the Indian Health Service, freestanding 
birth centers, and in the home setting; and 
Whereas since 1988, National Midwifery Week has been cele-
brated during the last week of September or the first 
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•HRES 1419 IH 
week of October in order to raise public awareness of and 
celebrate the Nation’s more than 13,000 certified nurse- 
midwives, certified midwives, and student midwives; and 
Whereas, the celebration of National Midwifery Week 2022 is 
October 2 through October 8: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges the celebration of National 
Midwifery Week; 
(2) recognizes the roles and the contributions of 
America’s certified nurse-midwives and certified 
midwives in providing high-quality, evidence-based, 
and cost-effective health care services to women and 
childbearing families; 
(3) thanks and promotes the profession of mid-
wifery as practiced by certified nurse-midwives and 
certified midwives; and 
(4) encourages consumers, hospital administra-
tors, health care professionals, health educators, pol-
icymakers, and others to become more familiar with 
the certified nurse-midwife and certified midwife cre-
dential and the exceptional people who have earned 
it and are currently studying to earn it by partici-
pating in National Midwifery Week. 
Æ 
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