Birthingway college of Midwifery's Breastfeeding Center- Grand Opening

Announcing Birthingway College of Midwifery's

Breastfeeding Center

Grand Opening

Saturday, March 20th from 12:00pm-3:00pm

Celebrate the opening of an innovative new type of support system for families in Portland. The Breastfeeding Center will provide Portland families with FREE out-of-hospital breastfeeding support in a comfy home setting. Services include support groups and a space to just hang out and connect with other breastfeeding women, as well as professional help with basic breastfeeding information, return-to-work plans, complex situations, weaning and more.

Birthingway's FREE Breastfeeding Center supports a nursing mother by providing:

• Personal care with an individualized breastfeeding plan.
• Free phone support to assess needs
• A free hour-long consultation with an IBCLC.

Birthingway's breastfeeding support is physiologically based with the least amount of interventions while protecting the well-being of moms and babies.

Center Services are closely supervised by International Board Certified Lactation consultants (IBCLC) with assistance from students participating in our Lactation Program. All client records are kept confidential per HIPPA standards.

Birthingway College of Midwifery

12108 SE Carlton St.

Portland, OR 97266

Contact 503-760-3131 for information about the event

or e-mail: breastfeeding@birthingway.edu

www.birthingway.edu

The grand opening celebration will be a chance for the community to get to know our space and learn about the services the Breastfeeding Center will offer. There will also be food and a raffle to sweeten the day.

Birthingway College of Midwifery Homeopathy Workshop

Birthingway's Homeopathy Workshop

Homeopathy is safe, inexpensive and effective, and it is super fun to create yourself too!

Saturday, October 24 from 9am-3pm

taught by Cari Nyland, ND

at Birthingway College

(Registration deadline is October 16, 2009)

Cost: $70

This workshop is designed to help birth professionals or anyone else who is interested with self-care through creating homeopathy remedies.

Link to our website with the registration form: http://birthingway.org/uploads/File/Homeopathy%20CEU%20reg%20Fall%2009.pdf

Birthingway College of Midwifery needs bellies for practice

Birthingway is currently looking for belly models for their midwifery students to practice non-invasive prenatal skills. Mamas must be 20+ weeks pregnant and will receive $20/session. Starting Tuesdays Sept.29th-Dec. 15th from 2:30-4:30pm. It's a really fun time- The belly models will get a foot massage by one student while another does fetal positioning, fundal measurements, etc. while under the supervision of a clinical instructor and an assistant.

Birthingway is located in OUTER SE Portland- basically Foster and 122nd. It's an old 3 story house with a homey feel! Easy to get to, right on bus lines.

Contact Birthingway directly to get on the list (ph # 503.760.3131)

Please pass this on to pregnant mothers at 20+ weeks.

Pelvic Floor Work Class

Jen Warnock, a lovely lady and co-founder of Nest Midwifery, is co-teaching a class on female pelvic floor health at Birthingway College of Midwifery. It is open to the community, not just for Birthingway students, and for women only.

This class will cover anatomy, assessing and maintaining pelvic floor health, including low and high tone, with hands-on practice skills. Special attention will be paid to pelvic floor assessment can be useful during labor and birth and to postpartum moms. To read more about this amazing and under-utilized work, check out Full Moon's Daughter blog post from January 14, where Courtney Jarecki interviewed Dr. Bryan Baisinger about trigger point & myofascial release techniques to help during pregnancy and postpartum.

To find out the money and schedule details for this class, go here and scroll down to see this:

Pelvic Floor Health (PFH471) 1 credit hour. Course-pack $10. Five sessions.
Assessing and maintaining pelvic floor health, including low and high tone, with hands-on practice. Instructor: Pamela Echevario, CPM, LDM, and Jen Warnock, CPM
Date: Monday afternoons on 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2/2009
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm