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