The Art of Midwifery I
These classes are appropriate as an advanced seminar for doulas or a beginning level seminar for aspiring midwives and birth assistants. Women who are planning to become CNMs and want to develop a more holistic, non-interventive approach to birth find this program both inspirational and educational before entering a program which may stress a more medical model of care.
The course follows guidelines set up by the MANA core competencies and the North American Registry of Midwives. This is a nine day seminar which meets every three to four weeks on a week-end day. Students are given handouts and homework for each class. Students can receive a certificate of completion if they complete a take home review exam.
The classes will include such topics as:
~Woman Centered Care
~What is a Midwife?
~Perinatal Tests
~Grief and Loss
~Postpartum Care
~Labor Support
~Pain Management
~Medical Terminology
~Birth and Prenatal Complications
~Homeopathy and Herbology
~Tools for handling a difficult labor
~Nutrition
~Prenatal Yoga
~Pregnancy Massage
~The Basic Prenatal Visit
~The Pelvis
~Mechanisms of Labor
~The Normal Newborn
~Normal Newborn Problems
~CPR (Fee not included)
~Paths to Midwifery
~Counseling
~Trusting Birth
~Remedies for Common Discomforts in Pregnancy
~Reproductive anatomy