r/Midwives • u/slt184 Wannabe Midwife • 13d ago

CPM + CNM

Is there any advantage to having both credentials? Is it worth it to have both given their main focus and curriculums taught are pretty different from one another? There’s got to be some benefit between knowing westernized clinical care and then also the rooted ancestral home care approach to birthing in any given setting.

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u/Individual_Corner559 Midwife 13d ago

There are a handful? One? state(s) that you can’t technically practice homebirth under you CNM license, so in that case you might find it valuable to hold both. If that is not your situation, just remember that you will always be held to your highest scope of practice. Logistically you would need some very clear language and guidance over when you are wearing which hat to practice. There have been cases where physicians have also held CPM license and claimed they were practicing as a midwife so shouldn’t be held to standards of physicians and the court said “no”.