In this four-part series, join Certified Professional Midwife and clinical herbalist Tessa Micaela Landreau-Grasmuck in a deep dive into herbal medicine for birthworkers. We'll discuss herbal actions, strategies, and dosages for use in pregnancy, during labor, and in the postpartum period. In these 1.5-hour classes, we'll cover herbal use and differentiation for common pregnancy symptoms, labor and birth support, postpartum needs, as well as complementary care for complications and challenges in the childbearing years. In the fourth class, clinical herbalist Chesley Walsh will join us to discuss high-risk and complicated pregnancies, with an emphasis on post-partum recovery, post-partum mood, and traumatic births.

We’ll cover safety and shared decision-making tools for use of herbs with clients, including evidence-based research, cultural + historic use and knowledge, risk assessment, and energetic differentiation. With lots of space for case inquiries, questions, and collective wisdom sharing, you'll leave this class with confidence to use herbs with clients in the childbearing years.

These classes are taught from the midwifery perspective, rooted in the knowledge that pregnancy and birth are physiologic and somatic processes that call on the innate wisdom of the body. We also hold that sometimes pregnancy and birth become difficult and high-risk, and that birthworkers hold unique spaces to support the holistic physiology of pathologic complications. Designed specifically for birth attendants, doulas, midwives, care providers, and herbalists looking to support folks in childbearing cycles, but all levels of knowledge and curiosity are welcome. As always, these classes will be taught with a trauma-informed lens and with a commitment to bodily and collective autonomy; all genders and all bodies are welcome and celebrated.