Learn to assist at home birth or work as a monitrice!

Release date: 01/01/2020

Basic homebirth assistant training


Syllabus


Working as an assistant or monitrice

Contracts

Equipment

The assistant role at a homebirth

  • Setup/cleanup 

  • Vitals of the laboring person

  • Monitoring baby

  • Charting 

  • Supporting the laboring person and family

  • Normal birth

  • Immediate Postpartum care

Indications for transfer during labor

  • Baby 

  • Mother 

Labor & Birth Emergencies 

*Stars indicate this may not always be an emergency

  • Non-reassuring heart tones

    • Signs & monitoring

  • Placental abruption

    • Signs

    • Immediate action

  • Uterine rupture 

    • Signs 

    • Immediate action

  • Bleeding

    • Types of hemorrhage

    • Reasons for hemorrhage

    • Identifying a bleed that needs management

    • Manually managing bleeding 

    • Herbs

  • Shock 

    • Signs

    • Immediate action

  • Dystocias

    • Labor

      • Identifying, managing a labor dystocia 

    • Shoulder dystocia

      • Prevention

      • Signs

      • Immediate action

  • Neonatal resuscitation 

    • Normal baby at birth

    • When resus is indicated

    • Steps to neonatal resuscitation

    • When to transfer

  • Meconium *

    • Normal/not

  • GBS status * 

    • Indications for transfer of GBS+ person or baby 

Indications for transfer immediate Postpartum 

  • Baby 

  • Mother

Arriving to the birth

Attending alone

  • Setup

  • Fast delivery

  • Who to call

  • Complete a birth step by step 

Calling EMS

  • SBAR

  • transferring care & communication 

Transfers 

  • Non emergency 

    • Contacting the hospital

    • Preparing family for transport 

  • Emergency 

    • When to call 911

    • Preparing family for emergency transport