How can midwives support their clients to have a healthy postpartum recovery.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Join us to learn about making milk and supporting breast/body feeding.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Let’s talk about the placenta!

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

We will talk all about pushing during labor.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

We will discuss the 1st stage of labor.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

What midwives bring to appointments and births. How you’re charting and setting up the different birth tubs.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

We will discuss the typical labs done in pregnancy, why they are done, and how to discuss them with your clients. We will be practicing blood draw and taking blood pressures.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a FREE event. Please get in contact for more information.

Discuss herbs and nutrition during the prenatal period.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Set your alarm and join the BIPOC Student Midwives Fund on Saturday, May 18th from 10 am - 12:30 pm for our annual fundraising event. This year we are hosting a walkathon around beautiful Lake Merritt in Oakland during the Month of the Midwife! 

We’ll be meeting across from the Cleveland Cascade, with folks starting to walk around 10:30 am. This is a family-friendly event, with refreshments and music. And local yoga instructor, health and wellness mentor and reiki healer, Shawnte Forrer will be providing a gentle yoga session for all bodies and abilities! So bring your loved ones, perambulate as much or as little as you want around the lake, and show up for BIPOC student midwives of the Bay Area.

Our fundraising goal this year is $10,000, which will support our ongoing monthly Student Skills Days and help launch our BIPOC Student Midwives Apprenticeship Fund. All donations are 100% tax-deductible.  

You can choose the day of whether you would like to walk, do yoga, make art at the art table, or sit and listen to music. It's all under the "Register to Walk" button so you can start creating your own campaign to fundraise (see below). If you think you would like to join the yoga crew, please bring a yoga mat if you have one!

Directions: If you would like to register to walk or participate in the accessibility-friendly activity, click on "Register to Walk." There you can set up your own campaign to fundraise for the BSMF and ask your friends and family to donate. You can also set up a team and have a friendly competition with other teams! 

If you cannot participate in person but would still like to donate to the fundraiser, please click on "Donate to BSMF." 

All donations are 100% tax deductible and help us pay for the free and low cost programs that Bay Area student midwives need, as well as launch our new programs.  

Everyone, please wear purple for the event! See you there!

A Big Thanks to our Business Sponsors:

Aqui Income Tax Services, East Bay Acupuncture, East Bay Birth Collective, Island Acupuncture, Millie Clinic, Pacifica Family Maternity Center, and Sage Pediatrics. 

1st trimester bleeding causes. Miscarriage. D&C and medications for miscarriage and abortion. Couldn't hear the heartbeat. Stillbirth.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Discuss newborn exams. Recognizing newborn distress in labor and immediate postpartum. Discuss Vitamin K, erythromycin, and newborn exam.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Discuss hemorrhage and how to resolve one. Practice going through cases.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Discuss the complicated positions of shoulder dystocia, face and brow presentation. Learn how to identify them, and maneuvers to resolve.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Practice feeling baby's position and station during a vaginal exam. Practice estimating dilation.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

Discuss why we use IVs at home and practice inserting an IV.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

We will discuss speculum use, finding the cervix using a speculum. Practicing informed consent.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

It’s here! Please join us for this excellent opportunity to learn or review the art of suturing for midwives. We will be joined by community and hospital-based midwives who will share their skills and knowledge as we learn through an academic review, and then hands-on suturing practice. As a bonus, all students will receive a free kit of suture instruments when you register! 

• When - Saturday, Nov 4th 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

• Where -  San Leandro, CA (exact address when be given once you sign up)     

• Cost - $50 for BIPOC students, $100 for non-BIPOC students, $250 for midwives

• Will there be scholarships? - yes! We have two scholarships for student midwives who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC) and who are in an apprenticeship. The application for the scholarship can be found here, and the deadline to apply is Wednesday, October 18th. 

• How do I register? - Here is workshop registration the form! 

• Other Details - Breakfast, tea, and coffee will be provided. Unfortunately, children are not allowed at this event with sharp needles and raw meat. Refunds will not be provided if you are unable to attend, even if you are on call. 

We’ll be discussing typical prenatal appointments, performing blood pressures, and palpating baby’s position.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.

We’ll be discussing why we run labs during pregnancy and postpartum, and which are routinely done. We will practice filling out lab forms. We will also practice performing blood draws.

Join student midwives from around the SF Bay Area to discuss midwifery topics, share skills, and build community with other students. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. This is a free event. Please get in contact for more information.