1943

Congress passes Emergency Maternal and Infant Care (EMIC) program that provided federal funding for pregnancy/delivery/postpartum/pediatric care of servicemen’s wives and infants. Mother was understood to be part of the war effort (Temkin, 588ff.). For EMIC mothers, “there were no financial barriers to hospital care” (589). EMIC was one factor associated with expansion of nurse-midwifery education and practice in the 1940s (Dawley II, 89)