This class meets four days from 10 am – 6 pm. (Register Here)

Students are required to bring the following to the workshop:

1. Holistic Midwifery Volume I by Anne Frye
2. Heart and Hands by Elizabeth Davis
3. Student Midwifery Kit

Before the workshop students should read:

1. Lying-In by Wertz
2. Paths to Midwifery: Getting an Education by Midwifery Today

Topic to be covered

The Life of a Midwife
Routes to Midwifery training
Apprenticeships and Opportunities
Assisting a Midwife
Medical Terms
Reproductive Anatomy
Informed Consent
Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy
Fetal/Placental Development and Growth
Prenatal Care
Prenatal Labwork
Basic Nutrition
Leopold’s Maneuver’s
Fetal Heart Tones
Fundal Height
Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction
Contraindications for Homebirth
Anatomy & Physiology of Labor and Birth
Newborn Exams and Apgar scores
Mechanisms of labor
The Birth Team
Labor Support
The Birth Team

Skills to be covered

Hand Washing
Universal Precautions
Medical History Taking
Physical exams skills
Breast Exams
SOAP Charting & Charting Techniques
Medical Abbreviations
Nagele’s Rule
Gestation Wheel
Feto-Pelvic Relationships
Listen to Fetal Heart Tones with Fetoscope and
Doppler
Estimating Dilation,Effacement, and Station
Fetal Heart tones (variations in labor)
Birth role-play
APGAR scoring
Newborn exams