PLEASE JOIN THE WAITING LIST TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN BOOKINGS OPEN FOR THE NEXT BIRTH FIRST AID COURSE IN SEPTEMBER 2024
The True Midwifery Birth First Aid for Mother and Baby course has been running since 2022 as a series of 5 workshops via Zoom given by Ruth Ehrhardt (True Midwifery) and supported by Samara Hawthorn (WellMama CIC) and Lana Petersen (Home Birth South Africa and Lalilu Doula Care).
This course offers a non judgemental and, home birth friendly platform for birth attendants from around the world to share, discuss and learn potential issues that may arise with mother or baby at a birth.
It is free birth supportive and friendly and open to ANYONE attending births at home in ANY capacity.
The course has been popular and a rich learning space for the diverse groups of people who have attended the workshops.
The course will now be moving onto the Teachable platform alongside the other True Midwifery and WellMama offerings.
The course will now include pre recorded video demonstrations (video example here) and support material and access to the online platform will run for approximately 3 months with the options of joining group calls and sessions, or doing a self study route with the option of 1:1 coaching as an extra option should you need it.
As always in the True Midwifery learning space, we remain committed to upholding the component of equality and accessibility by ensuring a sliding scale of costs for the courses, as well as making scholarships available to those who need it.
For returning students, we also commit to offering generous discounts to our previous students.
We plan to run this new format of the birth first aid course in September of 2024.
We plan to open for bookings in April or May of 2024.
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.
Yours in deep appreciation,
Ruth and the True Midwifery Cohort
A little bit about me and the course:
My experience with dealing with emergency situations comes from growing up on a farm where we had no electricity or hot water, were far from anything (an hour’s drive from the nearest town on a very bumpy dirt road), and had to learn to make a plan in all sorts of situations.
My experience with Birth First Aid comes from 13 years of attending births at home, which, mostly, were smooth and went well but I have had to learn to think quickly on my feet when a baby has struggled to breathe, a mother has lost more blood than she should, or a baby has gotten stuck at the shoulders whilst being born.
I am also a facilitator and Master trainer of Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive – two modalities for supporting mothers and babies at births in low resourced settings. I spent some years volunteering for Operation Smile’s Education Missions in African hospitals teaching these two courses.
This course has developed from these different experiences as well as the wonderful midwives, doctors, doulas, birth attendants, birthkeepers and of course, the mothers, babies and families who have been my teachers on this path.
What we will cover:
- Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive philosophy
- Creating and maintaining the basic needs of the mother and baby in an emergency situation
- How to create an emergency care plan (without it causing too much adrenaline!) and support transfer to the hospital
- Helping babies who are struggling to breathe at birth
- Dealing with more than normal blood loss after birth
- Preventing and dealing with shoulder dystocia
- Cord Issues
- Surprise breech
- Herbs and homeopathy to support the above
- Storytelling, sharing, and learning from one another’s experiences
- Our own recovery (mental, emotional, and physical)
- Creating a support network
- Death, loss and Disability
Upcoming sessions:
PLEASE JOIN THE WAITING LIST TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN BOOKINGS OPEN FOR THE NEXT BIRTH FIRST AID COURSE IN SEPTEMBER 2024
For more information please email me at truemidwife@gmail.com