Crowning Jewels - a midwifery workshop series
We believe that well-supported midwives develop quality care, practices, skills and intuition that results in better midwifery care.
When Midwives surround themselves with other safe, experienced and trusted mentor midwives it can lead to growth, learning, and the development of new or improved skills.
Midwifery and the process of becoming
February 13th - 9:30-12:00pm
With Meaghan Snider, LM
This workshop will focus on surviving and thriving in apprenticeship while on the path to becoming a midwife. This class is going to support questions on how to financially support yourself during your apprenticeship and get your practice up and running. We will address questions such as how to earn income that will also contribute to your skills as a midwife and how to prepare and open your practice when you’re ready. Focu on how to transition from apprenticeship to your own practice. We will look at the strengths and weaknesses of the apprentice and preceptor relationship and how to repair conflicts. What’s the ingredients for how to have a good preceptor relationship? I will present and share some tips for self care and a rosemary plant closing.
Meaghan snider
Meaghan has been immersed in learning midwifery for years and midwifery has been steeping in her blood for generations. Her Mexican grandmothers were midwives.
Meaghan was drawn to midwifery when she gave birth at Sunrise Birthing Center and at home with her two children. She was in awe about how the midwife led her life. The midwifery care model and the compassion she received, changed her life.
She always sought natural healing modalities and began studying them in depth when her children were born. Meaghan is a certified herbalist, Ayurvedic practitioner, and yoga instructor. She got the call to midwifery and began studying with great intention. She has a Bachelors in Midwifery with a focus in International Midwifery. She is a licensed and certified practicing midwife. She practices in Ventura and Los Angeles counties where she was born and raised. She is interested in midwifery with extended and in depth postpartum care practices including nourishment and traditional techniques.
Suturing Challenging Perineal Tears
February 13th - 1:00-3:30pm
with
Ana Levin, MD
Mina Ananth, MD
Michelle Orabueze, MD
This simulation will use a very realistic animal model that will allow for providers to practice the
repair of common and complicated obstetric laceration, including anal sphincter
injuries. It will be a vivid, hands-on opportunity to practice suturing skills as well as talk
through common issues that providers come across in the practice of repairing perineal
lacerations.
This workshop is for midwives who are experienced with suturing. Please bring your own suturing tools and packets of suture. This will save cost.
Ana Levin
Hello my name is Ana Levin. I am a family medicine physician with fellowship training in obstetrics and maternal child health. I grew up in Ojai and went to UC Berkeley and majored in anthropology. I completed a Masters of Science in Public Health and a medical degree through the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program. I completed my residency training at Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency. In 2020, I trained with Dr. Solinas at Santa Paula
Hospital and Ventura County Medical Center as a Maternal Child Health fellow. I am passionate about women’s health, peripartum couplet support, farmworker health access, and the wellbeing of our patient community in the Santa Clara Valley.
Mina Ananth
Hello, my name is Mina Ananth. I am a family medicine physician with fellowship training in obstetrics and maternal child health. I have lived all over and attended undergrad at Princeton where I majored in anthropology. I went to medical school at Tulane where I also completed a master’s degree in public health. I completed my residency training at White Memorial Hospital In Los Angeles, California. I trained with Dr. Solinas at Santa Paula Hospital and Ventura County Medical Center as a Maternal Child Health fellow.
Michelle Orabueze
Hello! My name is Michelle Adaora Orabueze. I am a Family Medicine Physician and Maternal Child Health Obstetrics Fellow. Originally from Atlanta, GA, I attended Georgia State University and majored in Chemistry, went to medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine, and completed my residency training at Ventura Country Medical Center. I am passionate about women’s health and obstetrics, safe deliveries, postpartum care and newborn care.
We suffer in the shadows: second victim phenomenon
January 18th - 9:30-12:00pm
with Denise M. Ellison, CNM (retired)
Not every birth ends like a fairy tale. Sometimes moms and babies don’t live happily ever after. We spend a lot of time concerned about the trauma that mom and her partner are experiencing. We forget that the provider was planning on a fairy tale ending as well. There is no contest as to who is more affected. The trauma is real but different, not more or less. For us, the midwives, there is guilt, blaming, and shame. Who is there for us? How do we process the pain and feeling of loss?
Denise M. Ellison
I grew up knowing that I wanted to be involved in healthcare one way or another. I started as a CNA as a 16yo and decided that nursing was my calling. I was introduced to midwifery while in nursing school at the Los Angeles County Medical Center. I knew immediately that being a nurse-midwife was my goal. I love birth and most especially the process of watching the evolution of a woman with her partner. There is no more intense or intimate moment than birth. Retirement has been a difficult transition but I am enjoying the time to sew, quilt, hike, and play with my GRANDs.
