We welcome all the new supporters who signed up for our newsletter at the Wholistic Health Expo in Rapid City & the Healthy Living Seminar in Sioux Falls in June, and the Sioux Empire Fair in August. We appreciate very much your interest in learning more about birth services in SD. As you can see from the graphic on the back page, there are very few midwives of any kind practicing in our state. This is a tragedy for mothers who know that the midwives model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section. We should have nurse midwives working in every hospital with birth services and CPMs (nationally certified midwives specializing in home birth) scattered throughout the state. Then the families of our state would truly have some options in birth services. Please share the graphic on the back page with the legislative candidates in your district, then let your district contact person know about it (see page 2 for more info).