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 Welcome to newbornbreath
The official website for Karen Strange, Certified Professional Midwife, AAP/NRP Neonatal Resuscitation instructor and advocate for the conscious and aware prenate. Currently offering 3 types of workshops, two of which (the regular workshop and the new short renew course) fulfill your NRP Card requirements, meaning you get the card for taking and passing this course.
newbornbreath.com is the culmination of Karen Strange's years of experience and unique insight into the prenatal and birth process. This site is dedicated to supporting her efforts. Here you will find useful information and a current schedule of Karen's Workshops.
No matter what your level of knowledge is, be it as a birth attendant, therapist, doctor or parent, you will learn a totally NEW paradigm of what happens at birth on a physical, psychological and emotional level.
- Karen Strange offers her regular full-day resuscitation workshop, as well as the new, long awaited for short renewal workshop in resuscitation. These workshops include the latest from NRP, evidence based updates and studies regarding such specifics as the use of 100% O2 in the resuscitation of newborn babies, suctioning for babies born through meconium stained waters, etc.
- She will demonstrate and present a clear understanding of neonatal transitional physiology: how babies clear the fluid from their lungs in the birth process.
- She covers much more than the normal hospital based AAP/NRP course as most of her attendants work in the out of the hospital setting. This means that more information needs to be covered, though everything she teaches will apply to anywhere birth occurs.
- Karen teaches with an understanding of, and tools for, the fear that comes up at resuscitation. The class is taught in a way that supports how skills are delivered in an emergency. "It is not only what you do that matters but how you are inside yourself."
The workshops cover the inherent wisdom embedded in birth.....physical, psychological and emotional. She shares her "Simple Tools" for helping babies integrate their birth experience when things do not go as planned, such as in a resuscitation, a long labor, or if some intervention occurs
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What People Say About Karen's Workshops
“Karen’s approach to neonatal resuscitation gave me the technical information and skills I need to help a newborn in distress, but her course gave me much more than that. She brought insight and awareness into the baby’s experience of that once in a lifetime event.
I am more gentle and mindful at each birth because of Karen’s advocacy for the baby’s total well being.”
-Heidi Rhinehart, MD, FACOG
“I finished the day feeling not only better equipped to deal with neonatal resuscitation, but renewed and inspired in the practice of obstetric care. I would eagerly participate in future programs that Ms. Strange offered and would strongly recommend her course to others. I believe her approach equally beneficial to a variety of practitioners including midwives, MDs, EMTs, nurses, medical students and residents.”
-Kirsten L. Searfus, M.D.
Assist. Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
University of California, San Diego
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