Module 2: Pre/Conception, Fertility, Early Pregnancy & Miscarriage
- Origins in the health of our grandparents - a continuum of health & illness
- Fertility as seen through a “fluid form” model of healthy body- healthy mind of man & woman.
- Conception requiring fulcrums of ignition, motion, form, fluids & pauses.
- Early pregnancy- a voyage through hormonal, immune & emotional transitions in mother, embryonic-placental and fetal emergence.
- When life meets an early death.
- 15 hours CPD per module
Weekend Timetable
Saturday and Sunday
Start 9.30
Lunch 12.30-2
Finish 5.30
Patient Clinic
Saturday 4pm Demonstration with patient/s by presenter
Sunday 2.30-3.30 Participants practice with patient/s
References for further reading
Grossinger R, 2000, Embryogenesis- species, gender and identity, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA
Karen R,1998, Becoming Attached- first relationships and how they shape our capacity to love, Oxford Uni press
Lothrop H,1999, Help, Comfort and Hope after losing your baby in pregnancy or the first year, Element Books, Dorset
May R, Love and Will, 1969, Norton & Company Inc, NY
Nathanielsz, 1996, Life Before Birth – the challenges of fetal development, Freeman & Co, NY
Yates S, 2010, Pregnancy and childbirth, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, London
