Join me for a celebratory broadcast for the 24 Hour Virtual International Day of the Midwife May 5th 2010, featuring Amy Romano, Mary Murry, and Amie Newman.Amy Romano, MSN, CNM, is a Connecticut-based midwife and managing editor of Science & Sensibility, Lamaze International's research blog for childbirth professionals. Earlier this year, she won a national advocacy award from the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services for her work on the blog.Amie Newman is the Managing Editor of RH Reality Check, an award-winning, daily online publication covering global reproductive and sexual health news and information. She writes frequently about childbirth, access to midwifery, and postpartum concerns of mothers and is passionate about bringing these issues into the broader reproductive and sexual health and rights movement.Mary Murry, MSN, CNM is a nurse-midwife at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, co-editor in chief of the Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy and author of the Pregnancy and Birth Blog at MayoClinic.com.