Each one of the topics below could be a workshop on its own, but you get to attend every one of them in this amazing online workshop! Come prepared to take in a tremendous amount of information! 

Educational Path
  • The language of midwifery - de-coding vocabulary, medical terminology, acronyms, and midwifery slang.
  • Pathway to midwifery - choosing your educational path
  •  How to be a good apprentice and have good boundaries

Midwifery Communication
  • Who's on first, who's on second? - the universal roles of the birth team
  • Risk assessment - understanding perception of safety, choice and autonomy
  • Understanding True Informed decision-making - communicating non-biased risk, benefit, alternatives
  • Learning to move gracefully to a second (or third apprenticeship opportunity) without burning bridges

Prenatal Care
  • Maternal blood work & urinalysis - understanding basic lab values and their meaning
  • Optimal Fetal Positioning - how to avoid and fix back labor
  • The community-based, midwifery model of care in action

Birth Work
  • 'What labor looks, sounds, and feels like' - emotional-hormonal-physiology of normal labor 
  • Laborland etiquette - protecting the environment of undisturbed birth
  • Anatomy of a birth bag - what midwives bring to birth and why
  • O2 set up - reasons for clinical use on mothers and infants
  • IV set up - perfecting your skill at assisting 
  • Intramuscular injections - basic needle skills and medication safety
  • Advanced doula skills - hands-on techniques to ease pain and suffering
  • Maternal vitals assessments - learn to take blood pressure, pulse and temp 

After Birth
  • Newborn vital assessment - heart rate, temp, respirations, and oxygen saturation
  • Breastfeeding assisting skills - individual assessment for each mama/baby pair
  • Diaper Diaries - what is normal and what is not and advising the mother
  • Hemorrhage - how to quickly assess blood loss in all the various birth locations
  • Placenta magic - learn the through placenta exam, drawing cord blood and discuss placenta medicine