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Pelvic Shape, Fetal Positioning, and Obstetrical Bias: The Role of Pelvic Classification and Optimal Fetal Positioning in the Perpetuation of Bias in Childbirth

Zoom - Online
12 spaces available

This is an online event.

Joining instructions will be provided after booking.

Course dates

  • Fri, 3 Jun '22   9am – 1:30pm EDT - done
  • Sat, 4 Jun '22   9am – 1:30pm EDT - done

Details

Our newest workshop will change your perception on everything you’ve learned up until this point and will shift the way you support every birth you attend moving forward. NOTE that this workshop is held solely virtually.

Join Brittany Sharpe McCollum in a deep dive into the history of obstetrics and the role that pelvic classification, the theory of optimal fetal positioning, and scientific racism have played in perpetuating bias and contributing to increased intervention in childbirth through the modern day. This nine hour workshop - divided up into two half day sessions - takes participants on a journey through an obstetrical timeline, exploring and deconstructing the myths surrounding “ideal birthing hips,” “optimal fetal positioning,” x-ray and manual pelvimetry, and posterior babies. Brittany utilizes historical texts, anthropological studies, obstetrical theories and practice, and the foundation of pelvic biomechanics set forth in her Creating Space workshops in an interdisciplinary research-based approach to understanding where these theories began and how they continue to infiltrate childbearing care to this day. This timeline-based approach leads to the understanding of how inaccuracy and naivety filled in a predetermined narrative that shaped bias against certain birthing people and certain fetal positions in modern day obstetrics and midwifery. Bias against posterior fetal positioning is deconstructed and reassembled using up to date research, leaving participants with the tools, skills, and knowledge to support posterior babies in healthy vaginal births.

This workshop is nine hours of intense study, discussion, and practice. Due to the challenging and revelatory nature of the material, the course has been broken up into two half day sessions (four and a half hours each) to leave time for absorption, reflection, and contemplation.

Approved for 6.5 CEs through ACNM and is held virtually only.

Tickets

Cost

Early Bird Pricing

Course ticket - for all 2 dates.
22 available until Sun 1 May '22 11:45pm
This ticket covers your attendance for both days.
$100.00

Early Bird Pricing WITH Hard Copy of Positioning Handbook

Course ticket - for all 2 dates.
28 available until Sun 1 May '22 11:45pm
This ticket covers your attendance for both days and includes the discounted rate for a hard copy of the labor positions handbook (which will be mailed to you prior to the workshop).
$140.00

Regular Pricing

Course ticket - for all 2 dates.
22 available until Sat 4 Jun '22 9am
This ticket covers your attendance both days of the workshop.
$125.00

Regular Pricing WITH Hard Copy of Labor Positioning Handbook

Course ticket - for all 2 dates.
30 available until Sat 4 Jun '22 9am
This ticket covers attendance at both days of the workshop and includes the discounted rate on the hard copy of the labor positioning handbook (which will be mailed to you prior to the workshop).
$165.00

Online event information

Zoom - Online