Carol Nelson:  

Carol is from Summertown, Tennessee. Carol's schools include Bremen High School. Oak Forest Hospital School of Nursing. Carol works at North American Registry of Midwives, the national certification agency for credentialing Certified Professional Midwives. Carol Nelson LM, CPM-TN, AASM is a Certified Professional Midwife. She lives with Don Nelson, her husband of 48 years. She is the mother of four children, three of which were born at home, and grandmother of 8, all of which were born at home, with Carol in attendance. Five great grand children Carol Nelson, is a Certified Professional Midwife, social activist, researcher and preceptor. She has been actively involved on the Board of Directors of several Non-Profits and in Public Health since 1968. She has an active midwifery practice at the Farm Midwifery Center, in Summertown, a rural area of southern Tennessee, with her five midwife partners. They provide prenatal, labor and delivery and postpartum care to many rural underserved women including the Old Order Amish Community. She has been delivering babies for over 50 years. She has been attending out of hospital births since 1972. She has been actively involved with midwifery politics since 1977. She received her Certified Professional Midwife credential (CPM) in 1995 was actively involved in the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) She has been on the NARM Board serving as the Treasurer since 1997 and Director of Applications since 2003. Carol is co-author of the American Public Health Association (APHA) position paper “Increasing Access to Out-Of-Hospital Maternity Care Services Through State-Regulated and Nationally-Certified Direct-entry Midwives which was adopted in 2001, by APHA. She is co-author o...Expand for more