Active Birth Workshop Empowering midwives to empower women

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One of the greatest pleasures for midwives is being able to assist a woman through a normal, physiological birth. To help a woman in this way requires skills, patience and trust in the natural birth process. Although midwives recognise the dangers inherent in tampering with normal physiology, we live in a society where women have little trust that their bodies are capable of giving birth safely, and fear pain in labour. Women are demanding epidurals, elective caesareans and inductions, believing these are safe for themselves and their babies. Midwives, caught up in the politics of maternity care, often feel powerless to change this situation yet there is much they can do.

If you haven't been to one of these workshops before, here's your chance. If you have attended in the past, is it time you updated? Do you need to be re-inspired and re-motivated? You can discover tools that will empower you to empower the women in your care:

• Learn more about women's physiology and how it works during labour.
• Find out how you can support and protect women so they can labour instinctively.
• Learn how to motivate and encourage women to trust the birth process.
• See how to assist women giving birth in various upright

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  positions and off the bed.
• Learn how to use effective non-drug forms of pain relief, as alternatives to epidurals.
• Develop strategies for implementing these ideas in hospital settings.

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Registration

Workshop numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 30 participants (allocated as registrations are received). To ensure your place, return your registration form early with payment. Phone registration will only be taken if credit card details are given.

About your workshop leader

Andrea Robertson is a Consultant in Childbirth Education from Sydney, Australia. Her books include Preparing for Birth, Making Birth Easier, Empowering Women, and The Midwife Companion. As the Principal of Associates in Childbirth Education, an independent training organisation, she oversees the world's first Graduate Diploma in Childbirth Education, and presents highly acclaimed training workshops for midwives and educators on teaching and practical midwifery, within Australia, and in many overseas countries.

"Excellent two days --- very empowering! Many different skills to implement, not taught in my midwifery training" Midwife "Increased my desire to expand my knowledge base, to do extra reading" Student midwife "I have learned more in the last 2 days than in my last 20 years as a midwife" Midwife