Ancient Art Midwifery

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Breech Birth Training in NW AR

Dr. David Hayes, Breech birth expert, formerly with Breech Without Borders, will be in the Midwest region in May. They will be in Fayetteville, AR May 16th-17th

The format for the training is a lecture day (9am-7pm) followed by a simulation day that is divided into morning (9am-1pm) and afternoon (2pm-6pm) sessions for 6 people each session.

Dr. Hayes is also in the process of applying for CEUs which, if approved, will be retroactive if not approved by the training date.

Cost: the lecture day May 16th is $200 and the additional 4-hour simulation block ( May 17th ) is $100.

Registration : Fayetteville, AR Complete the below form to register for the Breech & Twins Essentials course on May 16 (lecture) and May 17 (simulations). We will open the 18th for simulation groups once demand exists. Venue: Black Brook School of Massage, 28 S College Ave Suite #2, Fayetteville, AR 72701 You can reach out directl...

A new Community Birth School(r) coming soon...
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🌙midwifery is a craft in skill + tradition🌙 “A craft is a disciplined practice rooted in skill, repetition, and transmission.” - not regurgitating a textbook. We must strive for ongoing humble education, questioning what we already thought we knew, being open the MYSTERY that pregnancy and birth are. It’s sacred, it’s the closest you’ll ever get to God/The Divine, this is not something to be sterilized, ashamed of, and molded with hierarchy. This does not place it outside of study or skill - it places it within reverence.

When you use the term informed consent you are telling me that you have not been conscious about your choices and I cannot trust that you are actually interested in informed decision making. Informed consent assumes that I will consent once you inform me and informed decision making allows space for us to disagree. Consent is critical to autonomy.

One of the specific challenges of birth work and midwifery in particular is the fact that the standard protocols/rules/laws have a foundation of trauma.

Patriarchy loves blame and hierarchy. Something bad happened, someone had to pay... so a protocol was created, a one-size-fits-some rule was made, a punishment was set forth... Someone must be the police because people can't be trusted and women believe it (because of the trauma)...

Thus we perpetuate and perpetuate and perpetuate. 💔

We are NOT having a sale, because we never marked our course up more than it costs to run our program. 😘

✨We’re 30-Days from opening the world’s 1st museum fully dedicated to celebrating, honoring, preserving and uplifting African Indigenous Midwifery!✨

Today we invite you to come along a journey with us in getting to know AIMM’s Advisory Council members:

💜Linda Janet Holmes: Writer, Biographer, Oral Historian, Curator and author of “Safe in a Midwife’s Hands”

💜 Mama Sarahn Henderson: Indigenous-African American born, Direct Entry Midwife & Midwife Historian

💜Nana Janet Sula Evans: Mamisi (Priestess of Mami Wata) & Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Congo Square Preservation Society

💜 Sara Makeba Daise, MA: Black, q***r, fifth-generation Gullah Geechee Writer, Griot, Cultural Worker and Diviner from Lowcountry SC

💜 Jamarah Amani: Black, femme and q***r community midwife, Executive Director of Southern Birth Justice Network, and co-founder of National Black Midwives Alliance

💜 Okunsola M. Amadou: Midwife, visionary educator, cultural strategist and founder of Jamaa Birth Village

💜 Mother Health International: Committed to improving birth outcomes in areas where the burden of mortality is highest in Uganda

Our council will support Jamaa in stewarding our collections ethically, sourcing our artifacts, books and media through sacred intention, while guiding AIMM’s cultural structure, balance and member/guest experience.🧡

We’re SO grateful to have them with us!🙌🏾

✨Learn more about AIMM’s Advisory Council at: https://jamaabirthvillage.org/black-midwifery-museum/

Making birth transactional rather than relational will never provide a healthy birth culture. You can't grow heirloom fruit from a GMO seed whose only means of survival is to be sprayed with pesticide and herbicide, destroying 'competitors' instead of being in community with them.