Want LOTS of hands-on training and experiential learning to improve your skills?
Want to build more confidence with clients and more connections with other birth attendants?
Need sign-offs on PEP forms?
Ready to enhance your skills with advanced training?
Join us August 21-24 in Killeen, TX for this Midwifery Skills Lab led by Anita Hernandez of Dulce Community Birth School®.
- The basic MSL will be August 21-23
- The optional Advanced Training will be August 24
- Arrive and check-in before at 8:00 am Wednesday, August 21 - please plan to stay until late in the evening of the final day to get the most out of our time together.
The workshops will not have lodging available. We'll share meals, giving lots of opportunity for connection and camaraderie. Sign up soon as attendance is limited to the available space. Your baby-in-arms is welcome, but no children that will not be in a carrier or worn AT ALL TIMES, please.
- Wide range of normal
- How to help when out of normal range to continue healthy birth
- Keeping birth undisturbed
- Charting basics
- Resources for creating forms that work for your practice
- Nutritional assessment
- Prenatal education
- Testing and decision-making
- Equipment needed for prenatal care
- Hand washing
- Gloving
- Initial testing (CBC, type and factor, antibody screens, STD screening)
- Sterilization and cleaning techniques/universal precautions for hands and instruments
- Finger sticks
- Maternal assessment and vital signs
- Lab work
- Assessment of the baby (Doppler and fetoscope)
- Fundal height/Leopolds
- Prenatal testing: GD, GBS, GYN and urine cultures
- Fetal assessment: kick counts, NST, BPP
- Equipment for births, what to have and set-up
- Birth kits
- Emergency supplies
- Forms and charting strategies
Membranes:
- Sweeping, assessing for SROM, AROM
- Assessing contractions
Vaginal exams:
- Dilation, station, effacement, presenting part
- Monitoring mom and baby
- Charting: forms and protocols
- Discussion of Birth Skills
- Waterbirth: special considerations
- Supporting the perineum
- Nuchal hands and nuchal cords
- Shoulder dystocia
- Newborn suctioning: postural drainage, bulb, Delee
- APGAR scoring
Hands-on practice skills including
- Cervical checks - yes, be prepared to check and be checked
- Perineal support
- Nuchal hands/cords
- Shoulder dystocia
- Suctioning equipment
- Postnatal Skills
- Estimated blood loss
- Postpartum recovery
- Perineal tears
- Follow up exams
- Healing
- PPMD screening
- Breastfeeding
- Resuscitation
- Newborn examination
- Vitamin K
- Eye medication
- Follow-up exams, and testing:
- blood typing
- metabolic screen (demo)
- pulse ox (demo/flow chart)
- bilirubin
- hearing screen
- Structure
- Cord
- Abnormalities
- Consumption
- Breast infections and other complications
- Tongue tie and latch issues
- Establishing and increasing supply
- Baby’s oral structure and latch
- Mom’s history and anatomy
- Frequency of feedings, output, challenges
- Resources and practical tips
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Injections:
- sterile water (from labor)
- Pitocin
- RhoGam
- vitamin K
- managing postpartum hemorrhage
- manual removal of the placenta
- bladder catheter
At the Advanced Lab, we'll cover:
- Perineal repair:
- natural healing
- adhesive
- suture clips
- sutures
- Practice Starting IV fluids
- Practice Venous blood draws
- Pap and preparing labs
- General well care
Register here! - Now closed
Registration is currently closed. Check back for updates on future MSLs.
