January 13-17th 2020
NARM Approved preceptor Krista Miracle, CPM, LM ASM and Miracle Midwifery staff will walk you through the intimate journey of becoming midwife and stepping in to your clinical competence.
$1299 for 5 full days
$376 discount for deposits made by 12/1/19
-Hands-on Skills Scenarios
-NARM Approved Preceptors
-Supportive, nurtured learning
-Birth Center AND Home Birth Settings
Midwifery Assistant Registration
Midwifery and Birth Assistant Training
Join us for a 5 day midwifery learning intensive!
January
NARM Approved preceptor Krista Miracle, CPM, Licensed Midwife and the Miracle Midwifery staff will walk you through the intimate journey of becoming midwife and stepping in to your clinical competence.
$1299 for 5 full days
$ 376early bird discount if DEPOSIT paid by Dec 1st!
-Hands-on Skills Scenarios
-NARM Approved Preceptors
-Supportive, nurtured learning
-Birth Center AND Home Birth Settings
One on One Monthly Mentoring with Krista Miracle
Meet one on one with Krista Miracle,NARM approved preceptor, CPM LDEM ASM for an hour of mentoring, brainstorming and finding your truest path toward and within birth professionalism. This is an open hour for you to work through and develop your plan within the birth space. This also may include working through difficult births, difficult clients and challenging preceptor/student relationships.
Krista has extensive knowledge in the business aspects of birth work, including website development, marketing, new business launch and birth center funding. Additionally, Krista has walked the fine line of holding space for birthing people in both joy and tragedy, always learning, growing and discovering the intimacy of relationship between birth professionals and their clients.
In Monday’s class we will fully delve in to the Midwives Model of Care. Taking this deep dive, we will explore the methods and strategies for fully embracing care models developed to assure anonymity and preservation of holistic health. As you begin to recognize your place in the midwifery model, effective boundary setting, expectations and communication become key, not only with the clients you serve but with your preceptors as well. We will explore the most useful settings for students in clinic. How are you most useful in clinic and how is clinic most useful to your growth and learning? The second half of Monday's class will center around birth, the birth space, midwife preceptor etiquette and the unique balance of learning while supporting birthing people. Additionally, we will investigate and facilitate a deeper understanding of the powerful role consent plays in midwifery care.
Tuesday: Putting Away the Baggage and Understanding the Heart
How do we show up everyday? How much baggage do we bring and how well are our bags packed. This day will be a perfect example of the important role of emotional, clinical and logical preparation and competency. So, what’s in the birth bag? How are we accounting for supplies? What is needed for a prenatal, a birth and for you? How does what we bring to birth matter just as much as what we leave at the door? Birth bags and supplies, setting up for birth and knowing exactly where you stand on the birth team are all part of Tuesdays learning. However, we can’t leave out what you're packing away in the depths of your journey either. What role does your experience, trauma and joy for this work play in midwifery care? We are going to find out! In the second half of this class we will begin to explore the bumps, beats and rhythms of the fetal heart. Along this track we will review fetal heart monitoring and an in depth understand of the physical characteristics of fetal to newborn heart physiology. We will practice listening carefully to the fetal heart, identifying accelerations, decelerations and defining normal rates. We will also explore the relationship of FHR to cord compression, head compression and uteroplacental deficiency and recognizing deviations from normal fetal
heart rate patterns.
Wednesday: It's Complicated and So Are We
Is normal pregnancy and birth really all that complicated? Well, how complicated are we as humans? What questions are we asking our clients and how are we listening to their answers? In this class we will review the entirety of prenatal care and all of the subtle or not so subtle complications that come with it. Building from our previous days learning we will delve in to prenatal testing and screening, palpating and understanding fetal position, measurements and preparation and then put those newly honed skills to work in our hands-on prenatal clinic with volunteer models. How do we touch bellies? How do we gain consent for testing? What are we bringing in to the clinic and what are we leaving at the door? Along with our clinic skills practice we will explore fear, experience and listening as both tools and hindrance to your ongoing practice. After clinic we will review complications of pregnancy, how to recognize complications and when to transfer.
Thursday: Simulation Stimulation
Simulation day will find our intimate group investigating, assessing and understanding birth work from the hands on vantage point of Intrapartum, Birth and Postpartum Simulations. Students will be given multiple scenarios and settings to immerse in supporting Postpartum Hemorrhage, Estimating Blood Loss (an all time class favorite!) and Shoulder Dystocia’s along with Positive Pressure Ventilation, Full Neonatal Resuscitation, and Maternal CPR. What is the assistant’s role? How do you support families in trauma? And, how do you recover effectively from these experiences yourself? Lastly on Thursday we will review transfers, how to make the call (911 vs. non-emergent), giving report in hospital and following Utah Women and Newborns Quality Collaborative (UWNQC) protocol and forms.
Friday: Nurturing the New Parent and the New Midwife
On our final day together, will focus on nurturing. How do we ensure newborns, new parents and new midwives/assistants are nurtured fully? What does the postpartum period look like for each of us? We will review newborn thermoregulation, the newborn exam, suturing and repairs exam and newborn screenings. Focus on the postpartum person will include signs of infection, postpartum depression and support networks for new parents. In Friday’s class we will also take the opportunity to discover the process by which traumatic events may come up, and how we make space to heal (ourselves, and our clients). We will also cover debriefing, building your own support network and self-care and establishing healthy patterns and plans for ongoing work on self care and healing trauma. We will end our week together with a Meditation and Fear Burning Ceremony. Through this process we will focus on releasing our fears and welcoming the constant re-birth we will discover on our journey.