Certified Nurse Midwife vs. Women's Health NP?

You do not have to choose between the two. I want to go to UCSF, when you graduate with your CNM you are also a C\WHNP. So you deliver babies and do all the office stuff of the C\WHNP like paps, counseling, IUD insertion, STD testing, pre-natals, working with post-menopausal women, ect.

Basically a CNM and a WHNP do the same thing except the CNM also does deliveries. Both do well-woman, prenatal, problem gyne, midlife, menopause, etc. The benefit to having both is that sometimes a job wants one or another. Obviously if someone will be doing deliveries a CNM is needed. In some cases if there is a job with no deliveries a WHNP is desired because of malpractice insurance issues (can be more $$$$ to insure a CNM even if no deliveries). Also, sometimes CNMs a more politically unfavorable than WHNP because often it is very hard for a CNM to be the first to get in somewhere. So it can be beneficial to have both, but if you are only picking one of them, CNM has a wider scope of practice, while it could potentially limit your job prospects one day.