The following is a list and short description of the workshop classes that we offer.

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Midwifery Assistant Workshop:
This is an intensive workshop and we encourage participants to read the books on the reading list before attending. Contact us for a reading list.

This workshop now includes the following classes: Birth kit supplies, setup and use Basic sterile technique; keeping the birth environment clean Anatomy and physiology of female reproduction, pregnancy, labor and delivery Introduction to pelvimetry and anatomy of the pelvis; dilation checks with model Introduction to charting, record keeping and medical terminology Introduction to midwifery assistant skills, including taking blood pressure, vital signs, fetal heart tones and measurements Monitoring baby’s fetal heart tones The midwife assistant’s role in postpartum care labor, and delivery Introduction to care and assessment of the newborn Helping the breast-feeding mother Cultural differences in childbirth education History of midwifery in the U.S. and the Farm Midwifery Center HIV/AIDS and the midwife Oxygen setup and use Neonatal Resuscitation (optional)

Neonatal Resuscitation This class will be a two-day hands-on workshop following the Midwifery Assistant Workshop. You may attend this class in conjunction with or separate from the Midwifery Assistant Workshop. Upon successfully passing this class, you will receive a “Card of Completion” from the American Academy of Pediatrics/American Heart Association Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

Advanced Midwifery Workshop

Continuing education units approved from Midwifery Education and Accreditation Council (MEAC).

This workshop is for women who are practicing midwives, or who have completed a Midwifery Assistant workshop, and have attended at least 8 deliveries with a practicing midwife or a doctor.

Workshop includes:

• Introduction to phlebotomy*
  
  
• Pelvic exams, pap smears, wet mounts*
  
  
• Placing a urinary catheter; reasons for procedure, and technique*
  
  
• Suturing: we will discuss several new technique's for suturing that decreases discomfort for the mother and aids in healing.*
  
  
• Discussion on second and third stage management: We will address ways to deliver the head and shoulders of the baby over an intact perineum, and will discuss methods to resolve a shoulder dystocia.
  
  
• Prolonged labor, inductions and augmentations: what is safe, and what is not safe in an out-of-hospital setting?
  
  
• Group B strep: discussion of case studies and new solutions to this problem.
  
  
• Discussion and demonstration on breech and twin deliveries
  
  
• Tour of the Ethridge Amish Community, and a visit with an traditional Amish midwife
  
  
• Postpartum: The Year Following Birth
  
  
• Watsu: water massage for pregnent women
  
  * Hands-on class

IV Therapy Class

This class will be a two-day, hands-on workshop following the Advanced Midwifery Workshop. It is designed for midwives who want to update their skills and midwifery students who are starting to do hands-on deliveries with their preceptors. You may attend this class in conjunction with or separate from the Advanced Workshop.

Workshop for Midwives: Common Sense and Tradition (CEUs offered from ACNM and MEAC)

This class is for practicing midwives, nurse midwife students, advanced midwife students and labor and delivery nurses.

Workshop includes:

• Reflecting on intervention
  
  
• Belly casting
  
  
• The Magic of Women’s Bodies: Our Mind, Hormones and Reproduction
  
  
• A synopsis: Women's history of medicine and midwifery
  
  
• Breeches and twins; hands-on with models
  
  
• Watsu: water massage for pregnant women
  
  
• Intuition in the birthing environment
  
  
• The Caring Relationship Between Midwife and Woman
  
  
• Neonatal resuscitation in a home birth setting: hands-on with models
  
  
• Amish birthding traditions, and a visit with an traditional Amish midwife