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New items on payer source and prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) from a 2003 revision of the birth certificate provide an opportunity to examine additional aspects of US midwifery practice.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Methods<\/jats:title>The data in this report are based on records on birth attendant gathered as part of the US National Standard Certificate of Live Birth from a public use Web site, Vital Stats (http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/VitalStats.htm<\/jats:ext-link>), which allows users to create and download specialized tables. Analysis of new items on prepregnancy BMI and birth payer source are limited to the 38 states (86% of US births) that adopted the revised birth certificate by 2012.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Between 1989 and 2012, the proportion of all births attended by certified nurse\u2010midwives (CNMs) increased from 3.3% to 7.9%. The proportion of vaginal births attended by CNMs reached an all\u2010time high of 11.9%. Births attended by \u201cother midwives\u201d (typically certified professional midwives) rose to a peak of 28,343, or 0.7% of all US births. The distribution of payer source for CNM\u2010attended births (44% Medicaid; 44% private insurance; 6% self\u2010pay) is very similar to the national distribution, whereas the majority (53%) of births attended by other midwives are self\u2010pay. Women whose births are attended by other midwives are less likely (13%) to have a prepregnancy BMI in the obese range than women attended by CNMs (19%) or overall (24%).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Discussion<\/jats:title>The total number of births attended by CNMs and other midwives has remained steady or grown at a time when total US births have declined, resulting in the largest proportions of midwife\u2010attended births in the quarter century that such data have been collected.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jmwh.12287","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,24]],"date-time":"2015-02-24T22:19:07Z","timestamp":1424816347000},"page":"10-15","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Midwife\u2010Attended Births in the United States, 1990\u20132012: Results from Revised Birth Certificate Data"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"60","author":[{"given":"Eugene","family":"Declercq","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_6_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1542-2011.2012.00198.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jmwh.2009.02.006"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_4_1","unstructured":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.National Center for Health Statistics.http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/vitalstats.htm. 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