Helpful Resources & Links for Midwives                       

  • The Emotional PPE Project is a volunteer-run U.S. nonprofit that connects healthcare providers—like midwives—with licensed therapists offering free, confidential tele‑therapy (typically two sessions). It removes barriers like cost, stigma, or licensing concerns by providing a directory of vetted, licensed clinicians across all 50 states. For midwives facing stress, grief, burnout, or emotional strain—especially during and after challenging births—this service offers a no‑insurance-needed, stigma‑free path to support.
  • Introspective Spaces offers reflective, expressive-art–based cohorts and virtual retreats designed for healthcare professionals to process moral distress, grief, and burnout. Through writing, drawing, movement, and storytelling, midwives can reconnect with purpose, reclaim creative expression, and find community amid emotionally demanding clinical experiences.
  • The Bee Collaborative The Birthworker Equity in Education (BEE) Collaborative, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, was launched in an effort to support the state’s birth workforce – primarily midwives – to address persistent perinatal health inequities across the state. At the core of this project is the understanding that a more supported and less burnt out workforce is crucial to achieving high quality equitable maternal and newborn healthcare. The BEE Collaborative is focused on caring for the caregivers, rather than direct patient care.
  • Don’t Clock Out is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded and run by healthcare workers to support professionals grappling with moral distress and burnout. Midwives joining this interprofessional community gain access to free, peer-led virtual support groups and storytelling workshops where shared experiences create solidarity and healing. It’s a confidential, non‑judgmental space to process emotional strain—offering connection and purpose when the weight of perinatal care feels overwhelming.
  • Operation Happy Nurse offers a free online wellness community with mental health support, stress relief tools, and peer connection—resources that can benefit midwives navigating burnout, anxiety, or emotional strain.
  • This AAETS guide offers simple, effective strategies for managing acute stress during and after traumatic events—such as difficult births or emergencies. It emphasizes grounding techniques, hydration, deep breathing, and staying connected with your support network. These tools help midwives regain a sense of control and support emotional recovery.
  • The International Confederation of Midwives is a global network of more than 130 midwifery associations across over 115 countries. Its website provides resources, news, and advocacy tools to strengthen the profession, support midwives, and promote respectful, evidence-based care for mothers and newborns worldwide.
  • The OpenEvidence website belongs to a cutting-edge AI-driven platform designed for healthcare professionals—especially U.S.-verified physicians—to access rapid, evidence-based medical information. It delivers concise, peer-reviewed medical answers through natural language queries, incorporating multimedia insights from prestigious journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. It’s free for verified U.S. healthcare professionals and powers advanced tools like search capabilities, clinical calculators, and administrative workflows. Compiling content from over 35 million publications, the platform is currently used in more than 10,000 U.S. hospitals and by over 40% of U.S. physicians, who rely on it daily to support clinical decision-making.
  • The Association of Ontario Midwives represents and amplifies the voices of Indigenous and registered midwives across Ontario. Its website serves as a centralized resource that offers clinical guidelines, multilingual client materials, career opportunities, education and event information, advocacy campaigns, and support services like professional liability insurance—empowering midwives to deliver equitable, decolonized, and anti-racist reproductive, birth, and newborn care throughout the province
  • The Perinatology website offers a detailed and accessible reference resource for normal serum laboratory values during pregnancy. It features a comprehensive collection of gestational-specific reference ranges for a wide array of lab analytes—such as iron, thyroid hormones, albumin, sodium, folate, fibrinogen, and many more—organized by trimester and nonpregnant baseline values. This makes it a valuable tool for clinicians and students seeking quick, reliable benchmarks for interpreting maternal lab results in prenatal care.
  • IPAS is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to safe abortion and contraceptive care. Their website serves as a comprehensive resource for individuals and organizations seeking information and support in reproductive health. It offers detailed insights into Ipas's mission, strategies, and impact across various regions, including Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The site provides access to a range of resources, including training materials, research publications, and policy advocacy tools, aimed at empowering communities and healthcare providers to improve reproductive health services. Through its collaborative approach, Ipas works to dismantle barriers to reproductive care and promote human rights and justice in reproductive health.
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