THE SILENT BIRTHKEEPER ONE YEAR IMMERSION INTO TRUE MIDWIFERY

14 November 2024 - 13 November 2025 (TBC)

If you would like to be notified when bookings open, please add your details to this WAITING LIST so that you can be the first to know when bookings open!

We would also appreciate some feedback from you regarding your needs for the course - this helps us ensure we meet participants’ needs.

This is a course for aspiring midwives, interested doulas, women, and mothers who want to explore and investigate for themselves whether this path is something they would like to consider further. If you are walking this path already, this is an opportunity to deepen your learning and be part of a beautiful and supportive community.

YOU CAN EXPECT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE FOLLOWING OVER THIS 12 MONTH JOURNEY TOGETHER:

• What is ‘True Midwifery’? What does it look like?

• A deep look at our collective and personal history as birthkeepers

• Exploring and finding clarity on this path

• Ceremony, dance, tradition, meditation, and song

• Preparing an ideal learning environment for yourself and supporting one another

• Listening skills

• Self Care

• Birth Stories, storytelling, and learning from birth stories

• The Basic Needs of a Woman in Pregnancy, Labour, and Birth

• Basic midwifery skills, terminology, and record keeping

• Antenatal/Prenatal care 

• If you are assisting at a birth, what is your role in labour, birth, and postpartum?

• Immediate postpartum care of mother and baby

• Introduction to care and assessment of the newborn\

• Breastfeeding

• Cultural competency in childbirth and care of women

• Sexual Abuse Triggers in Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Postpartum

• Pregnancy and Birth Complications

• Difficult outcomes, grief, and death

• Homeopathy and herbs

• Connection and support within your birthing community

Yours in deep appreciation,

Ruth and the True Midwifery Cohort

TrueMidwifery.com