Midwifery Today guidelines for submission to all of our publications.
General Guidelines
Midwifery Today is for birth practitioners and interested parents. We emphasize the paradigm of midwifery led and family centric childbirth, breastfeeding, networking, and education. Our aim is to foster communication between practitioners and families and to promote responsible midwifery and childbirth education around the world.
Write what you are passionate about—that usually makes for a great article.
We seek a balance of scientific/technical material, professional and business aspects of midwifery care, and “softer” personal and/or philosophical articles, including birth-related art, poetry, humor, case studies and birth stories. We consider submissions on all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum.
If you are submitting an instructive article aimed at midwifery procedure or practice, please submit concise material that clearly expresses your knowledge, experience, feelings, and/or findings . Identify and credit any sources of information used and include references. We welcome photos with your submission. All photos must have an image release uploaded via the submission form.
Please see our online MT Editorial Style Sheet (PDF) and sample references for reference format and general style guidelines. If you find reference formatting difficult, please submit your article with the best information you can and our editor will respond. We reserve the right to edit for clarity, content, and length. We like to work closely with our contributors and, whenever possible, give contributors the opportunity to review all edits.
Midwifery Today accepts submissions of all types via the following form (Submit here). For letters or physical submissions, please use our P.O. Box.
Midwifery Today currently pays at a rate of $0.05 USD per word for every accepted article submission over 250 words as of July 15th, 2025. Photographs accepted for publication by Midwifery Today for publication will be paid at a rate of $15 USD per accepted image and $25 USD per accepted publication cover image. Model and/or photo releases are required. Please provide images that are 300 dpi or higher in resolution without any watermarks. No residuals will be paid for any submitted content. Contest submissions are exempt from this policy.
Please Note:
- Midwifery Today requests notification if articles have been previously published, in whole or in part, in any other publication. We do not want to infringe on anyone else’s copyrights.
Copyright
All writers whose articles are accepted for publication are required to sign our Copyright Transfer Agreement, found on the submissions form, prior to publication of the work.
Submission Guidelines for Midwifery Today Newsletter
Midwifery Today offers a free newsletter for all childbirth practitioners and interested parents. The newsletter features shorter articles and editorials, links to the Midwifery Today articles database, and itis also a springboard to other Midwifery Today projects and conferences. Subscribing is easy; go here.
The newsletter invites you to submit material you would like to share with our subscribers via our submissions form (Submit Here).
Media Reviews
We also feature reviews of books, video, and other media. The average review is a maximum of 600 words. The item should be relevant to birth practitioners or parents.
Some questions to answer would be:
- Who is the intended audience of the media?
- What topics are covered?
- Are the topics covered clearly and thoroughly?
- Are references included in the material?
- Are there photos and illustrations and do they accurately represent the content?
- How does this media affect you as the reviewer and how do you think it would be received by the target audience?
- Was the content engaging and did it reach it’s goal?
Midwifery Today has featured the following topics in its publications:
- Clinical articles on midwifery techniques and practices.
- Stories with a geographic focus that cover pregnancy and birth in a specific area.
- Birth stories by practitioners that share insights or information learned.
- Birth stories by mothers or other family members, with the intent of helping birth practitioners gain knowledge and understanding. These should be powerful, poignant, challenging, entertaining, and educational.
- Recipes for tinctures, hot packs, herbal treatments, salves, teas, and nutrition-packed recipes for pregnancy and labor.
- Remedies: Choose a favorite herb, aroma, or homeopathic that you use for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, or lactation and describe its preparation and use. Or choose a topic or condition and describe a variety of remedies. In either case, be specific about preparation and dosage.
- Business information, systems, and suggestions to help midwives, doulas, and childbirth educators improve their practices.
- Autobiographical or biographical portraits of practitioners: how and why did you or someone else enter the birthing field; your training, practice(s), goals, family, non-birthing interests, and insights.
- News, litigation, information, advice, pending legislation and insurance issues concerning the practice of midwifery in your area. Opinion pieces.
- Poetry on pregnancy, birth, and midwifery.
- Midwifery from around the world. Send us articles that discuss pregnancy, birth and postpartum subjects, customs, traditions, remedies, cultural roles, legal issues, challenges, or triumphs from a global perspective. Describe the status of birth and midwifery in your country. Submission of photos is strongly encouraged.
Updated July 25th, 2025
