Program Overview
Providing maternity care as a holistic, personalized experience, that returns power to women and encourages them to feel their vitality, live in joy and love their birth - has been the hallmark of my practice. It’s an honor to share this path and calling with you!
As a Certified Nurse Midwife, I started working in a hospital based practice and periodically continue to do so, and then opened my own home birth midwifery and gynecology practice - where I’ve learned so much from helping to bring over 1000 new babies into this world. My practice has been local, with a wait list of clients within the first year I opened.
Having a successful six figure practice of over two decades has provided me with many resources and a lot of lessons that I wish I would have known when I first started out - especially regarding what is NOT taught in standard education and training.
A Walk With Anne for Industry Professionals Online Course
$127.00
25 short, sharp video walks talking and exploring:
Practice Insights and Tips
How we can improve birth outcomes
Why the name Home Sweet Homebirth in all settings
Group or solo practice?
Business, marketing, legal & insurance aspect of practice
Integrating CNM/CM & CPM training & practice
The power of our words & how we talk to clients
How to deal with clients not choosing us
Internal exams
GBS in pregnancy
Birth trauma in mamas & our role as professionals
Birth trauma in newborns & our role as professionals
Dealing with hospital staff
Need for advocacy in hospitals & why we must be the change
Can we help everyone have a homebirth? Providing & documenting excellent midwifery care especially during transfer
Honoring the sacred pause post birth
The huge gift in birth
Dealing with emergencies - processing & healing afterwards
Holistic Health and Healing
What is it really?
Finding your inner calm
Pausing throughout the day
Transforming “what if” thinking
How to improve your posture
What we can control & how to leg go and flow with what we cannot
Tools for hard days
Self-care non-negotiables
Meditation - how & why
Watch anywhere/anytime, on your PC, laptop, tablet or mobile.
Plug in your headphones and take me on a walk with you!
Ever wondered about certain topics along your professional journey?
Simply want to grow in your knowledge or health and well-being?
Looking for fresh insights and perspectives?
Then come on a walk with me and find out, as I get real and go deep on such topics as deciding on group or solo practice; dealing with hospital staff as birth professionals; transfers; integrating CNM/CM & CPM training; our role in birth trauma in mamas and newborns; the business, marketing and legal aspects of practice, ways to preserve your well-being holistically and prevent burn out; and so much more.
Here are 4 ways we can work together:
Rock Your Practice
For Midwives And Doulas
Rock Your Practice is the deepest form of professional mentoring I offer. It's especially supportive if you want to start a home birth midwifery practice. Not only will I personally teach you the ins and outs of the practice as it relates to your needs, but also I'll share how to deal with insurance, how to get the paperwork organized, and how to grow your practice.
Jumpstart Your Practice
For Midwives And Doulas
Jumpstart Your Practice is a great option for developing or building your own Midwifery or Doula practice! Get educational training to support holistic and natural births, plus all the documents and business strategy you need to get your business going! This will shave YEARS off of your learning curve.
Doula/Midwife Mentorship
This is perfect for you if you are are feeling isolated and are desiring expertise of a midwife mentor for reviewing and getting support on challenging cases or complications, charting, and medical/surgical transfers. I'm also happy to share some business suggestions to grow your practice as part of the process as well.
Aspiring Birth Professionals
This is a great starter program for personalized guidance and support when you are new or exploring birthing career options.
What People Are Saying…
“It was really wonderful working with you. I learned so much …” — Again, thank you, Naima, Doula
“As a professional, you have inspired me to pour out everything for my patients.…” — Lauren, Obstetric Nurse, Student Midwife
“…thank you Anne for being a great midwife and for supporting my path as a doula.” — Courntey, Doula
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Mentoring Birth Professionals
Providing maternity care as a holistic, personalized experience, that returns power to women and encourages them to feel their vitality, live in joy and love their birth - has been the hallmark of my practice. It’s an honor to share this path and calling with you!
As a Certified Nurse Midwife, I started working in a hospital based practice, and then opened my own home birth midwifery and gynecology practice - where I’ve learned so much from helping to bring over 1000 new babies into this world. My practice has been local, with a wait list of clients within the first year I opened.
Having a successful six figure practice of 25 plus years has provided me with many resources and a lot of lessons that I wish I would have known when I first started out - especially regarding what is NOT taught in standard education and training.
Here are ten things I wish I knew when I started my own midwifery practice from scratch back in 1997. I felt skilled as a midwife, but had no clue about or support with so many things that are key to having the successful thriving practice that I eventually built. I learned on the job, as I had to. I spent a lot of money and time taking many workshops, continuing education and embarked on my own self study to master and refine my skills as not only a midwife, but also as an owner of a private practice and its administrator. And I learned a lot from mistakes I made along the way. These ten main knowledge and expertise skill sets I wish I had when I embarked on the journey of starting and growing my own private midwifery practice are among the sort of guidanceI am passionate about providing to prospective, student, and new midwives, as well as any midwife who wants to start a practice or improve an existing one. They include:
1) How to run a business, accounting, billing and collections (not taught in most midwifery schools).
2) Dealing with insurance (a whole new unfamiliar world).
3) Marketing and social media (a consistently changing platform)
4) Making needed practice forms, legal documents, and informative handouts for clients.
5) Creating chart forms that work best for you and your practice (charting efficiently, debriefing, guidance with management and charting challenging cases).
6) Writing letters communicating with other health care providers (introducing yourself to form a collaborate relationship, thank you notes for excellent supportive care or summarizing cases for consultations or referrals).
7) Writing letters for moms in your practice as their obstetric care provider (disability, work, gym, dental work, travel, exemptions, insurance companies: payments and appeals).
8) Clarity about the roles of other members in your practice, (office and birth assistants, handling an emergency before help arrives, maintaining skills, and drilling for those rare emergencies).
9) Formulating and buying needed supplies (for your office, care visits, and birth bags).
10) Setting boundaries in your practice for your own personal health and self care (maintaining healthy relationships in your other life roles to prevent problems, exhaustion, illness, and burn out).
If you are a doula thinking of becoming a midwife, or a midwife wanting to start or grow your private practice, I’d love to help you!
Mindful Hatha Yoga Class Series Online Course
$127.00
This course has 14 yoga classes plus bonus material:
Seven ~ 60-80 minute Level 1 Yoga classes
Seven ~ 60-80 minute Mindful Hatha Flow Yoga classes, building to Level 2
A soothing Gentle Slow Flow Yoga class
A Restorative Yoga class for deep relaxation
Bonus videos of an hour Live more advanced Vinyasa Class, shorter breaks of yoga anywhere anytime, use of props - like the wall, a chair, yoga blocks, yoga belts, yoga blankets and bolsters to enhance your practice, and practicing with your baby or pet..
The classes are for all people able to take them. Part one of the series will invite you to grow, strengthen, focus, train and enhance your mind, body, heart and spirit. Discover for yourself the calming, healing and transformative power of yoga - intentional meditative movement with breath.
Classes begin with meditation made simple using breathwork, gradual warm up, increasing difficulty as well as yoga play, gentle cool down, and end with restorative practices in deep relaxation. They are slow flowing, with space to explore specific poses but are meant to challenge you. Classes are different each session, with classical fundamental alignment based asana fused with modern postures and their many modifications and varied creative transitions. Classes are taught with modifications as needed. They also are fused with meditative, breathwork and visualization techniques which will transform your experience and life with regular practice.
The classes are there for you to practice a different class each day of the week or according to your own frequency, then start over again from the beginning of the series. Each class ranges from on average 60 minutes to 80 minutes, and they build on each other from Part one to Part two; following the sequence from class 1 onward is advised if it is your first time taking the series or are a beginning practitioner. Classes are mindful, at a slow safe pace, gentle but challenging, so that you build strength, flexibility & agility. They start with the basics but are for all levels of experience, and beginners too are welcome! You can use the initial classes as beginner classes, just modify as needed and use the tools and techniques as they pertain to your own life. The need to relax into intensity and the other multiple benefits of yoga practice pertain to everyone.
Once you hone your skills, you can take the Mindful Hatha Flow Part 2 Class Series that follows, doing your own modifications as needed - for wherever you are on your yoga journey. They also build on one another and can be practiced successively until you are ready to mix and match and create your own classes and practice schedule.
Additional videos are included to enhance your practice with use of the various props, as well as a soothing gentle slow flow class and a restorative yoga class for deep relaxation (great for evening!), shorter breaks of doing it anywhere and anytime, and a live bonus video of a more advanced class.