Speakers

This year’s Trust Birth Conference features some amazing speakers and topics! Attend the ones you missed from last year, or choose from the many new topics as well!

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Opening Sessions:

• Carla Hartley—Welcome, Introductions and Charge

• Jeanne Ohm—A System in Crisis (70 min) Hear world renown chiropractor and natural birth advocate, Jeanne Ohm, as she tells the truth of what is taking place within the medical community.  See exerts from her amazing documentary exposing the mis-treatment of mothers and their baby’s during typical births.  Learn from her experience as a home birth mother and chiropractor how to experience a safe and healthy pregnancy and birth and how birth professionals can refuse to continue the birth trauma so prevalent today.

Break-out Sessions:

• Lori Barklage—Releasing Trauma with TAT (90 min)

You will learn how to simply and gracefully use TAT (r) to allow healing after experiencing a personal trauma (from birth, sexual abuse, or any other circumstance).  Use a cutting-edge technique to release the emotional baggage from pervious negative births and experiences so you can be more present with yourself, your family, and clients.

• Lisa Barrett—Trusting Birth Through Variations of Normal (90 min)

Hear how Australian midwife, Lisa Barrett address variations of normal birth with trust and truth.  Recognize it is fear that has kept most birth professionals from receiving proper training and understanding in how to accept variations such as breech delivery, multiple births, and even death.  Learn the facts that point us to the truth that babies and moms are safer experiencing a vaginal birth instead of an unnecessary cesarean.

• Lisa Barrett—Honoring the Third Stage (90 min)

So often we place massive fears and protocols upon ourselves and the families we serve during the immediate postpartum period and we neglect to see the critical importance of cherishing and carefully treating those first few hours after birth.  So much depends upon how mother, father and baby are treated and cared for during this stage of the birthing process and Lisa will share with you how best to honor this precious stage of the process.

• Lisa Barrett, Patricia Ann Edmonds, Gail Hart, Margarett Scott, and Kristi Zittle–Panel:  Unity—How to Interact with Birth Professionals and Deal with Peer Bullying (90 min)

Often one of the most difficult aspects of birth work is learning how to interact with birth professionals who may not agree with your philosophy of birth.  Learn of the best ways to bridge gaps between varied professional opinions and how to best deal with the bullying that often comes from within our own peer ranks.  If we are truly learn to trust birth, we must first learn to present our philosophy in the most appropriate way so as not to burn bridges and cause offense.

• Dr. Elliott Berlin, DC –20/20: Lowering the cesarean section rate 20% by 2020 (90 min)

Through amazing research and study, Dr. Berlin has recognized many of the causative factors leading to current skyrocketed rates of cesarean section in our nation today.  He has proposed a plan on how alternative care providers when working together in the birth community can lower the cesarean section rate by 20% by or before the year 2020.  Don’t miss Dr. Berlin’s amazing teaching style as he prepares you to educate your clients and gives you solid tips on how to improve standards of care for those in your area.

• Heather Brock, Gloria Lemay, Laura Shanley, Karen Strange—PANEL: Don’t Push Me! (90 min)

What happens if there is no one around to tell mom to push…. and she never hears the P word at any time during her labor. No one tells her she is complete or gives her permission to “perform”. What does it feel like to let your body do it for you.

• Heather Brock, Heather Cushman-Dowdee, Linda Hessel, Emily Reeves, and Laura Shanley—PANEL:  Trusting in Unassisted and Free Birth (90 min) Come hear many of the same amazing women take us to the next step.  We learned about unassisted birth in 2008 and now these intelligent women want to help us learn how to embrace the women and couples seeking to birth unassisted and free.  If we are to truly be preparing for the future of birth, we must be ready and equipped to help every family with the birth they desire.

• John Brock, Mr. Dowdee, Mr. Reeves—What Dad’s Expect from Birth Workers (90 min) Join a group of father’s who have helped their wives choose home birth and learn what you as a birth server can do to meet their needs so they are better able to meet the needs of their pregnant and laboring wives.

• Sarah Buckley—Part I:  The Safety and Logic of Normal Birth (90 min)

Hear Dr. Sarah explain the ecstatic hormones of labor and birth in the most amazing way.  As she weaves thorough scientific evidence and research studies to make a beautiful picture of why the laboring mother must have a sense of privacy, safety and feel unobserved.  Learn how to promote the best birth outcome for the pregnant woman and her unborn baby and to encourage the most wonderful postpartum period and attachment.

• Sarah Buckley—Part II:  When Birth Goes Wrong—(90 min)

After attending her first session to instruct on the ecstatic hormones of labor and birth, understand why common place interventions so greatly affect the hormonal process and cause long term effects as a result.  Listen as Dr. Sarah walks through several of the most common interventions and how the hormones are directly affected and the individual cause/effect as it relates both to the mother and her baby.

• Sarah Buckley—Making Wise Decisions in Pregnancy, Labour, and Birth (90 min)

In the 21st century, pregnant woman are exposed to a large and increasing number of tests for themselves and their babies. This presentation explores the implications and safety of prenatal testing for Down syndrome and the risks vs. benefits of ultrasound, based on scientific studies. We will also discuss GBS screening and postdates induction.

• Lennon Clark—Elimination Communication

Learn why parents decide to practice elimination communication and how you, as a parent can understand the signs babies express to show their elimination needs.  Then see how to select and utilize diaper-free accessories that are available on the market and be able to explain the basic premise of why elimination communication is physiologically possible based on how the neonate’s elimination system is regulated.

• Lennon Clark, Laureen Hudson, Pamela Hines Powell and Dr. Tiffany Fernandez—Panel:  Trusting Birth After Cesarean (90 min)

Often we do not understand the far reaching ramifications that a previous cesarean can have on a pregnant and laboring woman determined to have a VBAC.  Learn how to address her emotions through pregnancy and birth, and recognize the differences that frequently occur in a primary VBAC labor.  We will discuss how to know when someone truly needs intervention; but more importantly recognize ways for you to remain hands off and encouraging so that you can really trust in her body’s ability to birth her baby after being told she was incapable of doing so.

• Lennon Clark, Claire Hall, Pamela Hines-Powell, Karen Strange, Jenny West—EXTENDED PANEL: Transitioning to Trust Birth Midwifery (150 min)

If your training was based on fear… and most has been, this is a session that could change your practice. Learn how to be a more effective midwife by doing less. It could be time to unlearn what we should not have doing in the first place!

• Heather Cushman-Dowdee—Birth Activism 101

Join Hathor the Cow Goddess as she discusses strategies for bringing homebirth and midwifery into the mainstream culture.  Analyze past movements while rating how successful they are by looking at their methods.  As a group you will then plan tactics and come up with a method for rating your success in getting the word out about birth safety

• Heather Cushman-Dowdee—Telling the Story so that Mothers Trust

Participants will work to create reasons why birth is safe and trustworthy in order to discuss ways to highlight these reasons within birth stories.  Together they will analyze some birth stories in order to find the best way to pass along truth and trust to women who are about to give birth.

• Dana Combest, Patricia Ann Edmonds, Gail Hart, Carla Hartley—Moderator, and Kristi Zittle—EXTENDED PANEL:  Licensure/Certifications:  Planning to Practice With or Without (150 min) Come and be a part of this explosive topic and hear varied perspectives on regulating birth professions.  Hear from women who have chosen one road over the other and their reasoning behind the choices, as well as from those who made one choice and chose to walk away because they knew it wasn’t best for them.  You will also hear from the perspective of the parent and why choice is most important and their feeling of who should and should not govern what is and is not acceptable in the birth realm today.

• Dana Combest, Sharon Craig, Carol Denny—Panel:  Practical Midwifery Skills for Service in a Third World Country (90min)

Learn how to serve women in a very practical way living in a third world country.  Recognize ways in which you can deal with issues such as hemorrhage, prevention of infection to mother during and after birth, prevention of infection to baby regarding cord clamping and cutting.  Find practical skills you can use when the modern quick fixes are not readily available.

• Jane Drichta—Massage in the Childbearing Years (90 min)

Learn techniques valuable in helping women during pregnancy and through labor and birth.  Hands on demonstration and practice of ways to help your clients have healthier happier lives.

• Jane Drichta—Tricks of the Trade for Doula’s and Birth Workers (EXTENDED SESSION — 150 min)

Doula’s and birth workers have special techniques that make birth easier and more enjoyable.  Come learn from one of the most experienced doulas around how to increase your clientele by offering the most comprehensive doula/birth worker services in town.  Have your clients spreading the word that you are the doula/birth worker to hire.

• Patricia Ann Edmonds—The Placenta:  Our Story of Life Before Birth (90 min)

Every baby is born with a biography co-authored by her/his mother. It is the story of life before birth…the placenta. In this class we will explore the cipher, learning how to read that story and use the information to provide the highest quality of care to both Momma and her newly born infant.

• Dr. Paul Fleiss—How to Properly Care for a Newborn (90 min)

Ever wonder when to treat your family at home and when it is time for further help?  Here Dr. Paul Fleiss, a wonderfully natural minded pediatrician, speak on ways to help parents relax into their role of care giver and comforter without panic over some of the things that ail our children daily.

• Claire Hall—How Long is Labour Meant to Be? (90 min)

Learn about the differences between truly normal labor and the natural physiology of laboring.  See why active management fails to prevent adverse outcomes and learn how to best support a mom who is experiencing a physiologically long labor without panic or fear.

• Claire Hall—Woman Led Childbirth (90 min)

So often, women are led by their practitioners through their antenatal care, labor and birth practices, that we have a society filled with uneducated women who will allow just about any intervention because they believe their practitioner always knows best.  They walk like sheep to the slaughter, so to speak, and end up with harmful medications, unnatural birth positions, and having their babies literally cut from their wombs all because they were told it was best for them and their babies.  It is time, we, as birth professionals learn to truth trust in birth and begin practicing what we preach by not only encouraging women to lead us, but teaching them how to move away from the mentalities that are forced on them from the media and society as a whole.  Many women are already there and are choosing to educate themselves and trust in birth in spite of the typical fears that even we carry into our practices.  It is our responsibility to help all women learn how to lead in their care—and time for us to learn how to follow.

• Gail Hart—The Truth About Gestational Diabetes (90 min)

Scare tactic or legitimate concern? Are big babies automatically riskier? What should a pregnant woman know about testing and dealing with this issue?

• Gail Hart—The First Sixty Minutes of a Lifetime (90 min)

What are we doing that might interfere with the baby and its primary functions: find the breast, find mommy. What are we doing to interfere with that? How does it feel to be born and then be handled and measured and messed with? Well-known for her fearless examination of protocols and common practices, Gail will challenge everything we have been doing in third stage to mom and baby.

• Gail Hart—Hemorrhage and Other Third Stage Difficulties (90 min)

Learn how to identify conditions that increase the risk of hemorrhage while being able to recognize causes and proper treatment methods pertinent to hemorrhage in the third stage.  Recognize how the medical management of third stage greatly differs from the traditional method and how those differences affect the outcomes of the birth experience.  Learn new ways to naturally prevent and help with expulsion of the placenta, treating postpartum hemorrhage and other emergency situations in the out of hospital setting.

• Debby Sapp—How to Promote Birth Truth & Your Birth Business (90)

Why is it so difficult for us to promote our birthing businesses?  Learn from the experts how to conquer your fears of self promotion and through truth and forthrightness make your business the best it can ever be.

• Pamela Hines-Powell– Unassisted vs. Unattended Childbirth – How a Midwife Can Honor and Help Facilitate an Unassisted Birth (90 min)

The term “unassisted birth” is often used to define couples who choose to have a birth at home without any care provider present. However, I propose we use “unattended birth” for those situations and “unassisted birth” to describe births that happen spontaneously, unhindered and privately without the interference of a care provider, though they are present. Explore the variety of ways that a midwife can make birth safer, more intimate and gentler by supporting an unassisted birth model with families.

• Pamela Hines-Powell– How to Work with Unattended Couples:  Ways to Offer Support, Resources and Skills to Those Not Wanting a Care Provider at Their Birth (90 min)

What if you were approached by a couple who wanted your midwifery services “on call” for their birth but weren’t planning on you being there for the birth or even attending regular prenatal appointments? Where is your comfort level with this? If you want to offer services to unattended birth couples how would the agreement look? What about money issues? By providing some real-life examples and paperwork this discussion will give midwives the ability to support these informed families while also making sure her boundaries are respected and in place.

• Pamela Hines-Powell—Pre and Postnatal Depression (90 min)

An ever growing trend in our society today is women battling with varied forms of depression in the postpartum period.  But what are also seeing and often overlooking, is the even more increasing trend of depressed women during pregnancy.  Hear how to adequately and effectively recognize the signs and symptoms of depression during the pre and postnatal periods and learn of great ways to help your clients and anyone you know work through these issues with success.

• Amanda Hofeditz— Toxins in Breastmilk: A Global Perspective on the Effects of Diet and Lifestyle (90 min)

New chemicals are being introduced into our food and environment each day, and harmful contaminants are now detectable in 100% of mothers’ milk. Come learn which toxins are the most prevelant in breastmilk, how they get there, what their presence means for mothers and children, and what you can do to make breastmilk safer. Discover how geographic location and lifestyle choices impact the levels of toxins in breastmilk as we examine studies that have been completed around the world on breastmilk contaminants.

• Terri LaPoint—Trusting Birth:  A Biblical Perspective (90 min)

Is it ok, from a Biblical perspective, to trust in birth?  Does God have an opinion about how we birth?  Very often women of various religious backgrounds are told that we must suffer the “curse of Eve.”  But is that really what God has said, and if we try to alleviate the “curse,” are we in fact, interfering with the will of God?  This session will dig deep into Scripture, the original languages, and into history, to discover the heart of God for birthing and breastfeeding women.  The answers may surprise you.  Come be empowered by the word of God as you gain freedom and life through the ability to trust in birth.

• Gloria Lemay—Pelvises I Have Known and Loved (90 min)

Learn about the 3 P’s of obstetrics—powers, passage and passenger and embrace the best ways that the provider can prepare the birthing woman to have confidence in her pelvis!

• Gloria Lemay and Kristi Zittle— Circumcision:  Learn the Truth (90 min)

Let Gloria use her years of expertise and commitment to ending circumcision in our life time to teach you about the importance of the male prepuce and the reason why the male penis should be left intact for healthier and happy lives.  Then see what transpired in Kristi’s life with her first 2 sons which forced her to re-evaluate what she had been taught growing up verses the facts regarding current practices and the reason behind the original mandate to circumcise in the Bible.  Gain insight on how to serve all families by sharing the truth without pressure or condemnation allowing the family full responsibility to choose what is best based on truth and not just tradition

• Gloria Lemay—Midwifery Interventions—How to Avoid Them for a Better Birth (90 min)

We know about the “cascade of interventions” that sends most North American births down a tunnel of medical mishaps: strip membranes, pit/gel induction, fetal heart continuous monitoring, pain medications, distress in the infant, cesarean, post surgical infection, breastfeeding problems, post partum depression, etc. etc etc.  Iatrogenic meddlesomeness at its most blatant is easy to spot and condemn.   We like to shake our heads, point our fingers and tut-tut-tut about this type of intervention.   BUT….What of the interventions that we don’t see and are guilty of ourselves?  Something that seems as small as turning on a light could be classified as “an intervention”.  Is it an intervention to wear perfume to a birth?  To monitor the heartbeat of the baby every ½ hour?  To leave a clock within the mother’s view?  To watch the mother?  To speak to the mother?  To ask her to take a walk outside?  To tell her to change her position or go to the potty?  To tell her husband to get in the water tub with her?   Do midwives take any time at all to ask themselves these questions?  Join us for this provocative session and see how you can better help the birth of every baby progress without hindrance and thus serve your families more competently and securely than ever before.

• Jody McLaughlin—The Invisible Midwife (90 min)

The best outcomes for maternity care can be measured by lactation success. This alone shows midwives to be “outstanding in their field.”  What tricks do farmers; midwives (and occasionally doctors) use to get a reluctant or fearful mom to “mother-up”? What beliefs motivate farmers, midwives and physicians?

• Kathy Nesper—Eliminating Fear: Embracing Truth (90 min)

This is from a Christian perspective of dispelling fears women face in pregnancy and as they approach the birth process and how midwives/doulas/cbe’s can help them to dispel

• Dr. Jeanne Ohm—Pelvic Balance For Safer and Easier Births (90 min)

Learn about the biomechanics of the pelvis and how to walk away from the fear of Dystocia by gaining an excellent knowledge of it and learning practical ways to prevent it.  This session will give care providers the resources and means to serve pregnant women more effectively and will give women the knowledge and tools to have easier and safer births.  Also learn the true benefits of the Webster Technique and how its use throughout pregnancy provides the balance of health every expectant mother needs.

• Dr. Jeanne Ohm— Vitalism: The Essence of Midwifery and Chiropractic (90 min)

Recognize the vitalistic roots of midwifery and chiropractic. Reconnect with principles of practice that support vitalistic mother and infant care in both. Specific focus on birth practices, assessing the infant and wellness lifestyle practices for the family.

• Jodilyn Owen—Midwifery From the Inside Out (90 min)

Learn about how we carry our experiences into our work with birthing women, and how we can do this in a healthier way. Using the research and ideas of Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell, Jodilyn will combine her personal experiences in this area and give practical information about what kind of sharing is appropriate in the professional relationships we develop with the women we serve, and how awareness of our own stories will serve us in our professional lives. Join Jodilyn as she helps you to find the special gifts you have within to offer to your clientele.

• Jodilyn Owen—Newborn Assessment for Midwives (90)

Having recently certified with the Brazelton Institute for specialized newborn assessment, called NBAS, Jodilyn brings her expertise of newborn assessment into this session. Learn how to teach parents relationship-building skills and healthy attachment while bringing greater understanding to their baby’s physical well-being.

• Jodilyn Owen—The Childbirth Educator and/ or Doula Who Trusts Birth (90 min)

What an amazing window of opportunity childbirth educators and doulas have to demonstrate birth trust and present birth truth. This workshop will not only discuss the changing paradigm for childbirth educators and doulas in light of the most recent statistics and the trust birth philosophy as it can be applied to all aspects of birth work. If you currently work as a childbirth educator or doula you will benefit from the insights of an experienced childbirth educator/doula. If you are thinking about becoming a childbirth educator and/or doula, you will have new considerations regarding teaching and learning about childbirth after this session.

these fears.

• Debby Sapp—Breastfeeding Facts that will Make You Flip (90 min)

Debby is a certified lactation consultant who will share the latest info on breastfeeding. Some of it will surprise you! Come see if what you have been recommending is truly accurate! Learn why breastfeeding information needs to be current in order for us to do the most good in this area.

• Debby Sapp—Herbs to Know and Love

Be more familiar with herbs to strengthen and support the childbearing family.  Learn about herbs contraindicated in pregnancy and lactation and which herbs are traditionally used to nourish pregnancy, labor, lactation and the whole family.

• Laura Shanley—Believe Your Way to a Better Birth (90 min)

Our bodies are responsive to our thoughts. Nowhere is this more evident than in the act of giving birth. Whether it’s our own birth, or one we’re attending, our beliefs about the process greatly affects the outcome (both faith and fear are contagious!). In this workshop we’ll discuss the beliefs surrounding birth to see which are based on truth and which on myth. Is birth a “marathon” or does viewing it this way set us up for a long labor? Is birth “hard work” or “always painful” or are these simply beliefs that can be changed with a little effort? As author Richard Bach states, “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours.” By understanding the power of thought, we can create the birth – and the life – of our dreams.

• Karen Strange—Baby’s Brain, Organization and Regulation:  What You Should Know and How to Support It, Part 1 and 2 (90 min each session)

Learn what it takes for a baby to integrate their experience and organize what is going on in their lives so that their brain can move on to higher thinking and learning.  You will understand how to read their behavior as communication; what is overwhelming and too stimulating for them; and, you will see what things actually impede their ability toward higher thinking and learning.

• Karen Strange—Baby’s Experience of Birth, Part I and II (2—90 minute sessions)

Learn how to communicate with the unborn baby.  Gain a greater understanding of the hormones of birth and bonding. Learn what Rupture and Repair refer to and how birth memory impacts midwifery education.  We will also discuss the effects of suctioning at birth and so much MORE!  You will not want to miss this two part class!

• Karen Strange—Meconium: Facts, Implications, and Perspectives (90 min)

Understand the different causes and significance of Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid.  Be able to recognize risks it may pose, to assess what is actually seen, and formulate a plan of action that is in the best interest of your client and her baby.  Investigate the differences between the medical guidelines, standards of care, and the true evidence based facts that are available and use this information to make your practice better than it has ever been.

• Sheila Stubbs—Unbecoming Baby Lies (90 min)

Learn more about the practices being pushed upon parents regarding the feeding and sleeping schedules of their babies.  Discuss the advocates of such practices, their techniques, concerns from various professional disciplines, and how you can respond to these trends in a way that will help your clients be the parents their little ones need.

• Sheila Stubbs—The Womanly Art of Birthing (90 min)

What is it that makes birthing a woman’s issue? This session explores some of the many ways the beauty and mystery and joy of childbirth have been overshadowed by its institutionalization. Discover what was lost when birth changed from a female-supported family event to a male-dominated medical event.

• Sondra Rose—EFT:  Up Close and Personal (90 min)

An in-depth look at the mechanics of Emotional Freedom Technique and teaching the basics on how to use it on yourself and others.

• Debby Takikawa—What Babies Want:  Positive Imprints (150 min)

We will be showing 2 films:

7:10 pm Laboring Under an Illusion A film about the way birth is shown in our media, and how our culture affects our birth experiences. Anthropologist, childbirth educator and film producer, Vicki Elson contrasts fiction with reality. The result is hilarious, engaging, and enlightening.

8:15 Reducing Infant Mortality. This film explores the high rate of infant mortality in our country including the shocking, high rate of prematurity and takes a look at how midwifery can (and does) make a difference.

The films will be followed by a brief slideshow by Raylene Phillips, MD, MA, IBCLC, Preterm Infant Developmental Specialist and Neonatology Fellow. LomaLinda University Children’s Hospital. and a motivational discussion of the role of midwifery in healthcare today.

• Jenny West –Water Birth: Promoting Trust and Less Interference (90 min)

Learn why the use of water in birth encourages the safest and most unhindered birth experience for mother and baby; and, how water therapy helps to prevent many of the things that can hinder a healthy labor and delivery.  See how this midwife has used water birth to become more hands off and therefore offers a better experience to the birth family with less interventions and more opportunities for happy, healthy birth outcomes.

• Jenny West–Total Body Modification and Pregnancy-techniques you’ll love to have in your repertoire (90 min)

Learn about easy soft-tissue manipulation technique to balance high blood pressure, eliminate edema, clear the liver, placental release, circulation and more using muscle testing and tapping along the spine for most corrections.  This technique works easily with a surrogate so can be used on newborns, too.  Bring a light colored T-shirt that can be marked on for class.

• Kristi Zittle—Serving the Woman of Size (90 min)

As a woman of size, Kristi has personally faced much opposition both from the medical community and the midwifery community to her conviction of allowing her womb to be open to life as oft as she is blessed.  Come here how this topic has touched her personally and how she has used her compassion to minister to the hearts of other clients in her shoes.  Since this topic seems ever prevalent in our society today, many midwives should be seeking ways to compassionately help women of size get excellent prenatal care while not being offensive and judgmental.  Learn how to best offer nutritional counseling and motivate these mom’s without wounding them.  Learn how to walk away from your own preconceived mentalities of obesity and learn to TRUST birth with women who are large.

• Kristi Zittle—Vaccination Truth (NEW AND IMPROVED):  The Case for Natural Immunity (90 min)

Learn of the various types of immunity and the truth about the vaccinations that prey on our children today. Learn how to avoid vaccinations that are harmful to your family and some natural ways to protect yourselves when traveling, in school, or exposed to various illness.

• Kristi Zittle—Autism:  New Insights on Causes, Treatments, and Prevention (90 min)

There is a lot of new insight, research, and range of treatment protocols regarding the Autism Spectrum that birth professionals need to learn to prevent the cause of autism and to help their clients who find they already have a child on the spectrum.  Join us for an eye-opening session revealing the lies supported by government and big industry verses the less publicized truth and evidence of cause and exploration of a cure.  If you have a child on the spectrum or want to be a better help to clients who do, you will not want to miss this informative session.

• Kristi Zittle—Embracing Life After Loss:  How We Can Help Them and Ourselves (90 min)

After giving birth to her much desired twins prematurely, Kristi then held them as they died and entered into eternity.  Her loss greatly affected her ability to handle and embrace future personal pregnancies as well as being able to be with her clients as she faced pregnancies and births with them. Kristi also was tested in her practice by the loss of two of her client’s babies just six months apart.  She truly felt she could not go on.  Walk with Kristi as she shares ways to effectively help a woman through the grief of an early loss and how to welcome new life with joy and without the fears that are typically imposed after a pregnancy loss, still birth, or early childhood death.  Also learn how to help your clients adjust to their loss while you, the childbirth worker, are working through the grieving process as well.  Find the compassion needed to make the difference.

 

Extra Sessions (if needed)

• Heather Cushman Dowdee—Birth Activism 101

• Heather Cushman Dowdee—Birth Stories

• Lennon Clark—Elimination Communication