Lynnette L. Gerhard, CNM, ARNP Scope of Practice:
Certified Nurse Midwives provide full maternity care from the first prenatal visit through the six week check-up following delivery. They also provide care for the new baby for the first six weeks after birth. In addition, they offer well-woman care for women of childbearing age, including annual exams, pap smears, and family planning.
“I am committed to keeping mothers and babies healthy and strengthening families by teaching good health habits for pregnancy (and for life), by involving women and their families in their own health care.”
Nurse-midwives consider birth a natural event in women’s lives and view childbirth as a healthy, normal process. They intervene in this process only when it is clearly needed.
