Beginning Midwifery Training
How To Become a Certified Professional Midwife
About This Course
This course is for women &/or any individual interested in serving pregnant women, couples families.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife Training is a two-year educational program
committed to the education of women, people, families and the preservation of Midwifery within
African American communities.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife Training is committed to providing implicit bias free education, free of micro aggressive encounters within a program that provides the basic competencies that prepare graduates as direct entry midwives for the North American Registry of Midwives exam.
Our country is experiencing a racialized crisis. The maternal mortality rate amongst African American women is 3 times higher than any other group of women. Culturally competent care is a critical and key component to diminishing racialized care within our healthcare system.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife educational program believes that midwifery care will help improve these outcomes by increasing access to culturally competent responsible competent midwives of color.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife Training was established to address inequities within midwifery education programs and to address the lack of available Midwives of color,
Our curriculum supports women centered birth based in evidence based medicine. We practice our principles by designing programs that are based in a tradition of Remembering, Reclaiming, Restoring, Serving, and Celebrating women’s ways of knowing, healing, helping and honoring.
Additionally, we integrate the truth of our lived experiences into our training and include research, evidence based practices, documentaries, multi-media projects and presentations that honor the legacy and future of black womanhood and motherhood.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife Training is committed to providing implicit bias free education, free of micro aggressive encounters within a program that provides the basic competencies that prepare graduates as direct entry midwives for the North American Registry of Midwives exam.
Our country is experiencing a racialized crisis. The maternal mortality rate amongst African American women is 3 times higher than any other group of women. Culturally competent care is a critical and key component to diminishing racialized care within our healthcare system.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife educational program believes that midwifery care will help improve these outcomes by increasing access to culturally competent responsible competent midwives of color.
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife Training was established to address inequities within midwifery education programs and to address the lack of available Midwives of color,
Our curriculum supports women centered birth based in evidence based medicine. We practice our principles by designing programs that are based in a tradition of Remembering, Reclaiming, Restoring, Serving, and Celebrating women’s ways of knowing, healing, helping and honoring.
Additionally, we integrate the truth of our lived experiences into our training and include research, evidence based practices, documentaries, multi-media projects and presentations that honor the legacy and future of black womanhood and motherhood.
Course Curriculum
Twelve courses across three 14-week semesters.
Semester One
AWWWMT 101 — Remembering, Reclaiming & Restoring: Connecting with Our Past (3 credits)
The historical legacy of community midwives and the essence of warrior midwifery. Integrates human rights and health, including health disparities, reproductive justice, and their intersections.
AWWWMT 102 — Introduction to Community Midwifery Science (3 credits)
The core principles of midwifery practice and evidence-based care: pregnancy as a natural physiologic process, women's innate biological wisdom to give birth, and the physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual factors that shape the childbearing process.
AWWWMT 200 — Medical Terminology (3 credits)
The etymology and language of medicine around midwifery and birth. Prefixes, suffixes, roots and definitions as they relate to perinatal and postpartum health.
Semester Two
AWWWMT 207 — Anatomy & Physiology for Pregnancy (3 credits)
Basic human anatomy and physiology as it relates to pregnancy, labor and birth, including the soft and bony structures of the pelvis, the journey through the pelvis, dystocias, nutrition and genetics.
AWWWMT 103 — Remembering, Reclaiming & Restoring: Wisdom and Community Building (3 credits)
Warrior Midwives honor the tradition of passing knowledge from one melanated midwife to another. Includes guest lectures from professional midwives and historians on practicing midwifery and joy.
AWWWMT 201 — Basic Skills, Lab I (2 credits, in person)
A three-day in-person intensive covering hand washing and sterile technique, gloving, stethoscope use, oxygen safety, medication setup and administration, universal precautions, maternal vital signs, pain assessment, basic treatment of shock, pulse oximetry, and charting.
AWWWMT 202 — Apprenticing I (3 credits)
Applying basic skills and foundational knowledge of pregnancy, labor and birth under the supervision of a professional midwife.
Semester Three
AWWWMT 203 — Herbology & Nutrition for Midwives (3 credits)
The science of nutrition, including nutritional needs during pregnancy and breastfeeding, special diets, cultural and personal preferences, and the prevention of chronic disease.
AWWWMT 204 — Professional Midwifery (3 credits)
The ethical, legal, business and financial aspects of community midwifery practice, including the laws and regulations that govern midwifery, national governing bodies, and career pathways.
AWWWMT 205 — Current Topics in Midwifery (3 credits)
Reviewing and discussing the current social, political and cultural events that shape the midwifery profession, and how each student sees themselves within it.
AWWWMT 206 — Apprenticing II (3 credits)
Builds on AWWWMT 202, continuing supervised practical experience with a professional midwife.
AWWWMT 207a — Understanding Lab Values
Reading and interpreting laboratory values in community midwifery practice.
Complete Program Path
Course: Remembering Reclaiming Restoring
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First Year
1st SemesterRemembering, Reclaiming, Restoring Lessons 1-5, Medical terminology, Intro to community Midwifery
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First Year
2nd SemesterRemembering, Reclaiming, Restoring Lessons 6-9, Basic Skills, Apprenticing I
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First Year
3rd SemesterHerbology & Nutrition For Midwives, Professional Midwifery, Current Topics
A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife Training Program
This educational program believes that midwifery care will help improve these outcomes by increasing access to empowering and culturally relevant birthing options led by Midwives.
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Addresses inequities within midwifery education programs.
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Addresses the lack of available Midwives of color,
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Increase access to impact the tremendous shortage of Black Midwives.
Our program prepares women to become a Community Midwife reflecting the midwifery model of care. We offer guidance and preparation for the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) exam.
