Welcome to the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance
The Massachusetts Midwives Alliance (MMA) is a professional trade organization created by and for a dynamic and diverse group of midwives. The MMA was founded to build cooperation among midwives, and to promote midwifery as a means of improving health care for women/ birthing people and their families.
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The MMA offers community, support, and educational opportunities to midwives and midwifery students. We welcome your participation, thoughts and sharing.
All midwives who join the MMA agree to practice within the scope of the MMA Practice Guidelines. Joining and managing your account online is easy – click below to get started online today!
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Learn About the MMA Basic Midwifery Course
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Classes begin each year in September and continue until June the following year!
A Journey into Midwifery
Dedicated to the age old art of Midwifery in its simplest form, we seek to honor and cherish the midwives who came before us and those who continue these traditions.
The MMA Basic Midwifery Course combines in depth independent study with an engaging bimonthly full day classroom. Our comprehensive course can help you to:
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Prepare for apprenticeship or clinical work
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Gain insight into childbearing and women’s health
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Ground your doula or childbirth education practice in an expansive knowledge base
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Connect you to a wonderful group of birth workers
The MMA Midwifery Course uses a unique format balancing independent study, with in house all day classes generally meeting two Saturdays a month. Students complete homework, projects, and readings at home. Class time is used to synthesize knowledge, practice hands on skills, share experiences and learn from being with the midwives and each other.
Students will have the opportunity to become childbirth educators as well as access and scholarships to local doula training. Our students have gone on to apprenticeships, clinical programs, nursing school, doula work and other paths.
