About This Course: Introduction to Community Midwifery
Syllabi For AWWWMT 102 Introduction to Community Midwifery
Context: Community Midwifery & the Sacred Nature of Birth
Assignment: Community Midwifery & Birth as Sacred, Communal Practice
Community Needs & Resource Map HW assignment due 9/22/2026
Context: Heart–Hands–Mind: Ways of Knowing
Heart • Hands • Mind • Relationship: Clinical Discernment & Responsibility
Assignment: Heart Hands Mind Ways of Knowing & Agency of Our Births
Assignment: Week What “evidence-based” truly means in midwifery Technocratic overuse vs. appropriate integration The cost of disconnection in maternity care Practice:
Assignment: Deep listening, informed consent, and shared decision-making
Assignment #1. Advocacy Within and Beyond Systems
Assignment #2. The Midwife as Autonomous Professional, Advocate & Steward
