This comprehensive workshop is suitable for practicing midwives, students, apprentices, aspiring midwives, and birth workers that want to begin incorporating herbal & homeopathic healing modalities into their practice. No experience with herbs is necessary, as this workshop caters to the beginner as well as to the midwife who is looking to add to her store of plant wisdom.

It is alot of material packed into a fun, hands-on day! Handouts for your practice and supplemental literature are provided. Tinctures & teas will be available for sampling and purchase at the workshop. The objective is for you to leave with the knowledge and materials to get started right away in making recommendations to your clients and also to engage in self care by nourishing your own body with herbal healing medicine.

This workshop covers:

Intro to herbs and homeopathy, similarities and differences, when to use, etc.

Reproductive tonics: Herbs for the Well Woman and Fertility

Herbs and alternative remedies in pregnancy by ailment:

Nausea

Anemia

GI Issues (constipation, heartburn)

Varicosities & hemorrhoids

Hypertension & a history of pre-eclampsia

Threatened preterm labor &/or a history of miscarriage

Anxiety & Depression

36 weeks and beyond

Post-dates pregnancy

Herbs and alternative remedies for labor and birth:

Prodromal labor

PROM and augmentation/induction

Slow/long labors due to fetal position, fear, etc

Third & fourth stage remedies

Placenta, clots, and bleeding

Perineal care

Newborn transition support

Herbs and alternative remedies for postpartum & breastfeeding

Mood support postpartum

Milk supply and other breastfeeding issues

The cost for this workshop is $150 per person and includes 0.5 ACNM CEUs (5 contact hours). Scholarships are available for student midwives of color.