EDGE Midwifery
Transform your Edge in midwifery & birth work through workshops, custom trainings & conference keynotes.
Workshop:
Birthing: Surviving to Thriving
This is an immersive, hands-on 3-day workshop designed to prepare you for real-world birth scenarios—no matter the environment!
Day 1 dives into the essentials of natural, physiologic birth, exploring prenatal care, labor stages, postpartum care, breastfeeding, and the powerful role of herbs. You’ll learn what’s broken in modern birth and how to fix it.
Day 2 equips you with critical birth attendant skills for assisting midwives or freebirthers—skills such as setup, handwashing, sterile techniques, vitals monitoring, charting, and assisting in emergency management of shoulder dystocia, breech births, hemorrhage, and neonatal resuscitation.
Day 3 ramps up the intensity, teaching you how to manage births in wilderness or disaster scenarios. Learn how to handle limited supplies, maintain cleanliness, manage nervous systems, and tackle birth complications with available resources.
Designed to equip participants with the essential knowledge and skills for supporting birth in various settings, this workshop is a must for anyone who wants to be ready for anything in the world of birth—urgent, empowering, and life-changing.
This workshop is an essential and transformative experience for birth workers – midwives, doulas, freebirthers and parents alike. Course design can be 1 to 3 days. Participants will dive into the world of herbal medicine, learning how to harness the power of nature to support birthers through pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and beyond.
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Through hands-on activities, you'll not only discover the most effective herbs for different stages of the childbearing year but also gain the invaluable skill of crafting your own remedies. Imagine making your own soothing herbal teas, healing salves, and energizing tinctures that you can immediately use for yourself, your clients, or loved ones.
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Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to herbal medicine, this workshop offers a unique and hands-on learning experience that will elevate your practice, enrich your self-care, and provide clients with personalized, natural remedies they can trust. Don’t miss out on this chance to enhance your toolkit with the powerful, healing potential of herbs!
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In this workshop, you will: Learn the fundamentals of herbal safety. Discover key herbs that support uterine health, hormonal balance, emotional well-being, and energy levels. Create your own herbal toolkit, including remedies like soothing sitz baths, healing salves, and energizing teas that will empower you as a birth worker and support those you serve. Deepen your connection to nature, and leave with practical knowledge you can apply right away.
Workshop:
Herbs for the Childbearing Year
Speaking Event:
Community Midwifery & Earth-based Birth: A Guide to Birthing in Low-Resource Environments.
Ruth Ann Colby Martin will explain the vital role of midwives and birth attendants in various environments and explore models of care with a particular focus on the unique challenges of low-resource environments. She will highlight the principles of physiologic birth, emphasizing the critical supplies, people, and environmental factors needed to support safer, more empowering birthing experiences. She will also introduce essential skills for supporting birth in any context by sharing her framework for the "5 Corner Stones" of birth work—critical elements for midwives and birth workers committed to providing care in diverse environments.
