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
Midwifery Communication
Prenatal Care
Birth Work
After Birth
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
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