Dear Reader,Starting an IV is not optional in this work. And yet most of us left school having watched it far more than we'd done it. This lab is built to close that gap. On August 27, I'm hosting a live, small-group IV Skills Lab — 90 minutes on Zoom where you'll watch venipuncture demonstrated in real time, then practice it yourself, with live feedback. Hands moving, technique corrected in the moment. Here's what we're covering: IV equipment — catheters, tubing, extension sets, what's...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Dear Midwife, As midwives, we make hundreds of decisions every week. Some are straightforward. Others happen in the middle of uncertainty—when emotions are high, information is incomplete, and families are looking to us for guidance. But what if the greatest influence on our decisions isn't our knowledge... ...it's our bias? Every one of us carries cognitive biases. They're part of being human. They shape how we interpret information, communicate with clients, assess risk, and respond under...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, On Wednesday, July 15 | 8:00–10:30 PM CST, I'm facilitating a live, national Community Peer Review session on Zoom. It's open to CPMs, CPM candidates, and students anywhere in the country, and it counts as half of the five hours of Community Peer Review required for your CPM recertification. Here's how it works. Midwives present cases, and we talk through them together as a group. You don't need a complication or a hard outcome to bring something worth discussing. Normal births...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY FLASH SALE CODE - JULY4TH for 20% off! ✦ FLASH SALE - 20% OFF ALL CEU COURSES ✦ Dear Reader,Whether you are enjoying a rare day off, on call, or catching up on your summer reading, we want to celebrate this holiday by giving back to our incredible community of birthworkers. For the next 24 hours only, to get 20% OFF any and all of our continuing education courses just type in the code JULY4TH at checkout and you're all set! If you’ve been waiting to grab some CEUs or want to...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader,There's a moment Christie Davis shared with our inaugural Midwifery Wisdom Fellowship cohort that I keep coming back to. She said: "There is no such thing as a space safe from activation." Because so many of us have been taught that calm is the goal. That if we're triggered in clinic, in a preceptor relationship, in a difficult birth — something has gone wrong with us. We're not cut out for this. We need to hold it together better. But here's what nervous system science actually...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Reader,A new study published in the American Journal of Perinatology (Wiley et al., 2026) did something most FHR research doesn’t: it took blinded, specialist-level review of intrapartum tracings and tested it against actual neonatal outcomes, not just clinical impressions in the moment.The study looked at over 3,100 term singleton births, comparing FHR characteristics and ACOG categories between newborns with and without composite adverse outcomes (low Apgar scores, NICU-level interventions,...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, If you've been thinking about joining the FHT Lab on June 27, I want to tell you about a better way to register. The FHT Lab + Fetal Heart Tones CEU Bundle pairs the live webinar with the full 4-CEU Fetal Heart Tones course — at $76 off the combined price. Here's what you get: 🎧 FHT Lab: Making Sense of Fetal Heart Tones June 27 | 7:00–9:00 PM EST 90 minutes of live, case-based teaching — working through real clinical scenarios, decision-making frameworks, documentation approaches,...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader,The Economist published a piece this week on "Why women cannot make enough breast milk." It wore its citations well. It spoke with measured confidence. And it will quietly convince thousands of new mothers that their bodies are broken — when the evidence says otherwise. The overwhelming majority of women are physiologically capable of feeding their babies. What fails them is not their mammary glands. It's the support, the education, the community, and the culture around them. This...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, The right herb, at the right time, for the right person — changes everything. But how do you know which herb? And when? And for whom? That's what Plant Medicine Midwife is all about. This isn't a course about memorizing which herb does what. You probably already know more than you think... What's often missing isn't the knowledge — it's the confidence to actually use them. And the framework for knowing when. What You'll Learn in Plant Medicine Midwife In this comprehensive,...
6 months ago • 1 min read