The Traveling Midwife • Midwifery Wisdom Collective

What you need to know beforeyou go!

If you are curious about pursuing midwifery on an international level or just want to plan ahead for a future in travel midwifery or overseas work, this course will be a great foundation and will give you the resources you need. This course will help you to practically realize your dreams of travel midwifery by exploring your goals and intentions and hence arrive at the type of midwifery travel most suited for you.

IS IT worthIT?

Have you dreamed of taking your midwifery practice around the world? Would you like to become a traveling midwife with true integrity? Are you unsure of the who, what, when, and where logistics? We get you. There have been no clear paths laid out for how to accomplish this common dream…Until now!

Whether your interests lie in volunteer work, paid private hire, or providing humanitarian aid, practical aspects of all these options are included in this course.

Cultural humility and sensitivity will be at the heart of this course, and we will take an in-depth look at what maternity care is like in low-resource settings around the globe. This course also includes a brief section on diseases common to these settings.

Literally, all your questions about how you can live out this dream- it’s here!

INVESTMENT: $250

whatWILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE?

private midwifery
volunteering
humanitarian aid
visas & vaccinations
what to pack & what to leave behind
know yourself-know your limits
know your timeline

ethics & accountability
understanding white saviourism
cultural appropriation
language considerations
clothing & modesty
cultural humility
living conditions

food
health considerations
infectious disease
vector borne disease
birth culture & rituals
maternity care in low resource environments
fgm

confronting death
compassion fatigue & trauma stress
confronting death & understanding secondary trauma
Culture shock & processing your experience
compassion fatigue
resources for building a foundation in travel midwifery

KRISTINE LAURIA, CPM

MEET YOUR COURSE MENTOR

KRISTINE LAURIA, CPM

Kristine Lauria is an international midwife and has been involved in women’s health for over 32 years.

She is an expert in high-risk maternity care in low-resource environments. She has attended over 5000 births in more than 25 countries around the world. A specialist in breech birth, she has written depositions and given expert testimony in court on the subject.

She is passionate in her support of bodily autonomy in medical decision making and is a staunch advocate for undisturbed, physiologic birth. When not on assignment with MSF (Doctors Without Borders), Kristine can be found kayaking, gardening or hiking with her dog.