Having highly sensitive and skilful touch is a crucial skill for working with birth.

Skilled touch helps us to provide comfort, support challenging labours and be effective and efficient in childbirth emergencies.

This workshop will give midwives an opportunity to learn and practice important hands on midwifery skills to increase their competence and confidence levels.

The workshop is suitable for student midwives, graduate midwives and midwives with many years of experience. 8 hours elective Midwifery
Council education.

The crucial skills that be covered :

Assessment:

Abdominal palpation

Vaginal examinations

Comfort:

Simple techniques to provide effective pain relief

Emergencies:

Resolve shoulder dystocia with calm ease

Respectful neonatal resuscitation

Simple techniques to support breech birth

This workshop will involve practical experiences and touch however there will be no genital touch.

The workshop will be supporting and nurturing building midwives calm and confidence for dealing with childbirth emergencies.

Outline

930 :

Introductions and outline

Waking up the hands- the art of skilful touch

The 5 steps of touch
Skilful consent

Abdominal palpation

Morning tea

Vaginal examination.

Resolving shoulder dystocia
Recognise Different types of Shoulder dystocia and learn simple effective techniques that work.

Lunch

Respectful neonatal resuscitation

Simple techniques for supporting breech birth

Break

Touch for comfort

Debrief and consolation.

Claire is an experienced midwife and midwifery educator.
She teaches midwifery emergency skills around New Zealand with the New Zealand College of Midwives.
Claire brings in experiences.
Claire has managed many childbirth emergencies over her last 23 years attending births, most of those in the home setting.
Claire also brings her experience as a Spinning Babies (R) Approved Trainer. Claire has developed Womb Craft (TM) body work combining Craniosacral thereby, post-birth scar remediation and somatic sexology. Claire is the founder of Womb Rhythms an online school offering training in the traditional art of
BirthCraft. Claire teaches Spinning Babies (R) and midwifery emergency skills internationally.

Birthcraft, The art of midwifery skills.Salzburg Austria.