2025 National Midwifery Week October 5th – 11th

October 6, 2025 | Fundraising Updates, Uncategorized

National Midwifery Week (#MidwiferyWeek2025) was created by the American
College Nurse Midwives to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care.
Midwifery as practiced by Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) encompasses the
independent provision of care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum
period, sexual and reproductive health, gynecologic health, and family planning
services, including preconception care.

Midwives provide primary care for individuals from adolescence throughout the
lifespan as well as care for the healthy newborn during the first 28 days of life.

Midwives provide care for all individuals who seek midwifery care, inclusive of all
gender identities and sexual orientations, working in diverse settings such as
ambulatory care clinics, private offices, telehealth and other methods of remote care
delivery, community and public health systems, homes, hospitals, and birth centers.

Dar a Luz is proud to have 6 incredible midwives on our team who have joyously
attended over 1700 births and have supported over 4000 New Mexican families.

Show your appreciation for our midwives this
2025 National Midwifery Week by donating to DAL!

Can you help us to get to $10,000 closer to our $100,000 year-end goal
before the end of #MidwiferyWeek2025?

DONATE HERE!

“A lot of people think midwives only care for people during childbearing and don’t
realize that they are trained in many areas of women’s/well person health. For
centuries, midwives not only cared for women in labor but also offered services for
other health issues and offered various kinds of remedies in the form of herbal
medicine and tinctures. As midwifery moved into the modern world, so did the
education. Midwives either learn through apprentice programs and take a certification
exam (licensed or certified professional midwives) or go through a master’s or
doctorate program to become a certified nurse-midwife. One is not better than the
other. However, the scope of practice differs and CNMs have more authority in every
state in the US—that is they are independent providers and have prescriptive
authority which gives them a wider scope of practice. All of the midwives at DAL
are CNMs.

In current midwifery practice, midwives are able to care for healthy women across
a spectrum of health services (this includes people with uteruses and people who
identify as female; for the purposes of this newsletter, we will use the term ‘women’).
Most of these are specific to women’s health, but our scope of practice also includes
some basic primary care. With additional training, CNMs can provide care for more
complex gynecological issues as well. In addition, some CNMs are dually certified as
nurse practitioners which gives them an even wider scope of practice.

Midwives can also provide care for mental health issues and can start/continue
medication management for those who need it. With additional training, some
midwives do have and offer more mental health care including some talk therapy.

Dar a Luz will be offering expansion of all of these services outside of birth care.
Stay tuned for more services to come as we continue to grow and expand.”

Abigail Lanin Eaves, Executive Director

Want to be a fundraiser for DAL?

We are asking a few of our key partners to rally their friends, family, and networks to
support our work for our Help DAL Thrive campaign. By becoming a peer-to-peer
fundraiser, you’ll help us expand reproductive health care services at Dar a Luz, and
you’ll help your friends feel good about doing good.

Starting a fundraiser is easy to do, and it’s fun. We’ll even give you all the tools you’ll
need to make a difference. With your help we can ensure that we are committed to
caring for women and people in this community who are in need of excellent care
across the lifespan and can’t access it for various reasons. We have persevered
through so much over the years and we won’t stop now. We also believe in hope.
And we hope that you will too.

Don’t worry if Peer-to-Peer fundraising isn’t your thing – you can donate directly to
our Help DAL Thrive Campaign.

Click the button below to create your fundraising page or to donate TODAY and help
DAL reach our goal of $100,000 by December 15th.

I want to help DAL thrive!

Join us at Canes for our October
Dine to Donate!

Join us THIS Wednesday, October 8th from 4:00–10:00 PM at Raising Cane’s on
4800 Montgomery Blvd NE for a delicious way to give back!

When you mention Dar a Luz at checkout (or use code RCFUND96 for online and
app orders), Cane’s will generously donate 15% of net sales to support our work
with families in New Mexico.

Bring your family, grab some chicken fingers, and help raise funds for Dar a Luz:
every bite makes a difference!

Meet us at Red Robin for our 2nd
October Dine to Donate!

Join us on Wednesday, October 22nd from 11:00 am –10:00 PM at Red Robin at
2100 Louisiana Blvd NE for another delicious way to give back!

When you mention Dar a Luz at checkout (or order from the Fundraisers (To-Go)
menu for online and app orders), Red Robin will generously donate 20% of net sales
to support DAL and our next phase.

Bring your family, enjoy some delicious burgers, and help us reach our final quarter
fundraising goal!

Other Ways To Donate to DAL!

Please consider donating to Dar a Luz to set us up for an impactful 2025! Every
donation has a profound impact on staff and clients alike and allows us to continue
offering our exceptional care to New Mexican families.

We thank you for your support!

Other ways to donate:

ACH Bank Transfer
Stock or bond transfer, or charitable gift annuity (use this pdf)
Donor-advised fund gift
Cash or Check (info below)

Please make checks payable to:
Dar a Luz Birth & Health Center
7708 4th Street NW, Los Ranchos, NM 87107

You can designate us as your United Way charity, Benevity or name us as the beneficiary on your Smith’s rewards accounts. We are a community-owned birth center and a non-profit, so every penny counts!