Student Coursework Program

Birthing Your Way Course Curriculum

If you need to enroll in the Birthing Your Way Course Curriculum because you are not in any formal schooling program, the following fees apply:

-       $200 Application fee (non-refundable)

-       $50 monthly fee

If you do not keep up with the course work you will be placed on a one month probation which means you will not be able to attend births but will continue attending prenatals. You will have until the end of the probation period to complete the past due course work. If in the event the course work is not completed by the end of the probation period you will no longer be enrolled in the clinical apprentice program. You may re-apply to the program after this time once the course work is completed and a $100 reapplication fee is paid.

  Early Termination of the Birthing Your Way Course Curriculum

If after the one month trial period you choose to not complete the six month apprenticeship Birthing Your Way reserves the right to charge the remainder of months due plus a $100 early termination fee.

Each semester lasts 4 months, however you can move through the semesters faster. An advantage to this would be completing the program faster and saving you more money.

Short outline

Course Work

Prerequisites

Books

  1. Heart and Hands
  2. Spiritual Midwifery
  3. Ida May’s Guide to Childbirth
  4. Ida May’s Guide to Breastfeeding

                                                               i.      A one page report on your feeling of each book is required. Include the date you read the book.

 First Semester

  1.  Communication Skills
  2. History of Midwifery
  3. Medical Terminology
  4. Create your own Childbirth Education Class

Books

  1. Nurses, Midwives, and witches

Second Semester

  1. Diet and Nutrition
  2. Prenatal
  3. Licensing – Legal and Ethics – Confidentiality
  4. Books
    1. China Study   
    2. Nutrition and Physical degeneration – by Weston A Price
    3. Textbook for Midwives by Myles
    4. Varney’s Midwifery

 

Third Semester

  1.  Midwifery Support Skills
  2. Anatomy and Physiology of obstetrics
  3. Massage Class – Lisa Brown
  4. Labor and Birth – book – heart and hands

Books

  1. heart and hands
  2. Prenatal massage: textbook of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum body work By Elaine Stillerman
  3. When survivor’s give birth by Penny Simkins
  4. Read one of the following books:

-           Still to be born

-          Empty Cradle broken heart

-          Empty cradle a full heart

-          Empty arms copping after miscarriage

-          Miscarriage, still birth and infant death.

 

Fourth Semester

  1.  Herbology –
  2. Homeopathic-
  3. Essential Oils-
  4. Bach Flowers –
  5.  Fertility Class –
  6. Books
    1. Taking charge of your fertility
    2. Wise Women Herbal the Childbearing years by Susan Weed (Some Contradictions)
    3. Every Woman’s Herbal
    4. Dr. Mom

 

 

Fifth Semester

  1.  Newborn Care
  2. Complications
  3. Diagnostic Tests
  4. Books
    1. Diagnostic tests by Anne Frye                           

 

Sixth Semester

  1.  Embryology
  2. OB Pharmacology Class
  3. Postpartum
  4. Breastfeeding Class for Professionals
  5. Books
    1. Counseling the Nursing Mother by Judith Lauwers
    2. The Breastfeeding Answer book
    3. Highly Recommended – Holistic Midwifery Vol. 1 and 2 by Anne Frye
    4. Suturing book by Anne Frye
    5. IV Skills guide
    6. Medications and Mother’s Milk by Tom Hale

 

Seventh Semester

 

  1. Suturing
  2. Well Woman Care
  3. Abnormal Complications / Diseases of Pregnancy / Contagious diseases in Pregnancy
  4. Create your own protocols
  5. Midwifery Laws
  6. Midwifery Business
  7. Breeches and Twins 

Classes to take as they come available no matter the order

  1. Medications Class – Dr. Baird
  2. Suturing 1 and 2 Class – Dr. Baird
  3. IV Class – Dr. Baird
  4. Well woman care –Dr. Baird
  5. Phlebotomy
  6. Fetal Monitoring Class
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