Members Only Live and Recorded Classes

    1. About Your Host: Bethany Stricker, LM, CPM

    2. How to use the group

    3. Group Logistics

    1. RESCHEDULED: New DATE TBD: A Surprise Breech Case Study with Bethany Stricker, LM, CPM and Kiesha Baker, LM, CPM

    2. April 12th, 2024 at 9:30am CST: Prolonged Second Stage Management and Differential Diagnosis with Nikki Knowles, LM, CPM and Becky Hines, LM, CPM

    3. TBD: Cord Avulsion Panel: Stories and Management with Midwives

    4. Case Study with Becky Thorp, LM, CPM: Prolonged Primip Second Stage with Augmentation at Planned Birth Center Birth: Date TBD

    1. Edema in Pregnancy: Normal, Common, or Pathological?

    1. Gestational Diabetes Testing and Management

    2. Pro-Metabolic Nutrition for Midwives with Kiesha Baker, LM CPM

    3. Prevention of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy through Low Dose Aspirin, Lifestyle, and Supplements with Megan Eidson, RN

    1. Preventing and Treating Pregnancy Complications with Natural Therapies: Oligohydramnios, Polyhydramnios, Gestational Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, PROM

    2. Thyroid Disease and Management

    3. A Discussion on Small for Gestational Age Babies with Kiesha Baker LM, CPM

    4. Placenta Abruption and the Midwifery Model of Care with Kiesha Baker, LM, CPM

    5. Part 2: Placenta Abruption and Midwifery Model of Care with Kiesha Baker, LM, CPM

    6. Gestational Diabetes: Screening and Management

    7. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: PIH, Pre-E, HELLP

    1. Midwifery Care in the Second Stage of Labor

    2. Midwifery Care at the Time of Birth

    3. Train for Birth with Krisha Crosley: Part 1

    4. Train for Birth with Krisha Crosley: Part 2

    5. Train for Birth with Krisha Crosley, Part 3

About this course

  • $15.00 / month with 1 month free trial
  • 105 lessons
  • 72 hours of video content

FAQ

  • I am looking into midwifery but I am not a student yet. Can I still join?

    Yes! This group is for anyone considering midwifery, current students, or practicing midwives. Birth workers of all levels learn together in this group. Doulas are also welcome as they support their clients in holistic care based on the midwifery model.

  • How is this group different from available podcasts or midwifery schools?

    The Steps to Midwifery group is an active, living group that welcomes user participation. Members can interact directly with the presenters and talk to real-life, practicing midwives. Student members can request topics to address their practical and present learning challenges.

  • What philosophy does the Steps to Midwifery group support?

    The Steps to Midwifery group supports and welcomes all birth workers that practice the midwifery model of care. Presenters seek to share practice styles of all kinds understanding that members are learning, and practicing midwifery, all over the world in various settings and legal situations

Instructor(s)

Bethany Stricker

Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife

Bethany Stricker is a Certified Professional Midwife and a Licensed Midwife in Texas. Her goal is to bring personal, safe, holistic care to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Many women go through the birthing process without a full understanding of what their care providers are recommending for their bodies and their babies. Because of this, she values ensuring families understand the benefits and risks of their options through: informed consent, educating the families she serves, and shared decision making between herself and the mother. Bethany is passionate about helping families have natural, physiological pregnancies and births where women feel empowered and loved. Through her extensive continuing education, she incorporates homeopathy, botanical medicine, dynamic body balancing, and craniosacral therapy into her practice to help her clients remain healthy and on track for their best birth. Bethany comes from a family of teachers and is passionate about creating a warm, safe environment for students to learn and thrive. She herself had twelve clinical preceptors over seven years and know that it is like to face challenges as a midwifery student. The Steps to Midwifery group was born out of a desire to make midwifery knowledge more "like Netflix" where it was accessible, affordable, and easy to find. Bethany understands that many midwifery schools lack interaction or lecture, and the Steps to Midwifery group hopes to fill the nuanced needs that midwifery students experience. In her home birth practice, she greatly enjoys involving students and finds one of her greatest joys is to see her graduated students begin their own practices. For more information about Bethany, visit her website: https://www.northtexasmidwifery.com/

Find support in your journey to midwifery!

The Steps to Midwifery Group is a community of birth workers, students, and midwives that meet weekly to discuss scheduled topics. Experienced midwives present classes, case studies, and facilitate discussion on all topics related to midwifery and wellness. Join today and gain access to over 100 hours of recorded content! Join weekly on our scheduled video calls to ask questions and find your tribe.

Dedication

The Steps to Midwifery Group is proudly, and humbly, dedicated to the legacy and work of Helen Jolly Nelson, a pioneer midwife in the DFW, Texas Metroplex. Helen sought out her own home birth supported by a family doctor, began attending home births of over women, opened the first freestanding birth center in Texas in the 70s, wrote the curriculum that became the Association of Texas Midwifery Training Program (ATMMTP), and contributing to the founding of MANA and NARM. Helen attended over 3000 births during her midwifery ministry and supported women in breech, twin, and VBAC births. She is loved and missed. Helen taught through story and the necessity of story telling from midwives as they learn from each other is the foundation and inspiration for the Steps to Midwifery Group.