Midwife CPD Training

A new CPD training is currently in development for midwives who want to deepen their understanding of pregnancy care through a naturopathic lens.

This program is being created to bridge the gap between conventional maternity care and holistic nutrition and traditional medicine that influence maternal wellbeing, helping you interpret pathology with greater nuance, understand the nutritional foundations of pregnancy, and feel more confident discussing supportive holistic options within your scope.

Alongside clinical insight, the training will also explore the often-overlooked aspect of midwifery care: the health and resilience of the midwife herself. Because sustainable, attuned care begins with a supported practitioner.

If this feels aligned, you’re warmly invited to join the waitlist. You’ll be the first to hear updates and have the opportunity to share what would make this learning experience most valuable for you.

You can expect learning across areas such as:

• Interpreting common pregnancy pathology with greater nuance - including iron markers, thyroid function, insulin patterns, and key nutrients such as iodine, zinc, and vitamin D ...

• Understanding the nutritional foundations that support (an often altered) maternal nutrient absorption, energy, and preventative care

• Recognising early patterns of deficiencies and understanding when collaborative referral is appropriate.

• Safe, scope-appropriate lifestyle and nutritional medicine strategies for pregnancy and postpartum care.

• Practical ways to support nervous system regulation, sleep, and energy while working on-call as a midwife.

• Integrating a holistic understanding of physiology into everyday midwifery discussions and care planning

And throughout the training, you will:

• Identify common nutritional deficiencies in pregnancy and know how to address them through dietary guidance and appropriate supplements.

• Incorporate preventative nutritional and lifestyle screening into antenatal and postpartum appointments

• Use and recommend scope-appropriate traditional herbal remedies.

• Interpret key pregnancy pathology markers (such as iron status, thyroid, vitamin D, iodine, zinc, copper, B12, insulin, and more) with greater clarity and confidence.

• Integrate holistic questions into your clinical assessments to gain a fuller picture of maternal wellbeing

• Provide practical, evidence-informed education to women about nutrition, recovery, and resilience across the childbearing continuum

• Apply a clear framework for thinking about pregnancy physiology that complements existing clinical guidelines

Midwives hold one of the most powerful roles in maternity care, supporting not only clinical outcomes, but the emotional, physiological, and deeply human experience of pregnancy and birth. I hold deep respect for the midwifery model and for the midwives who feel called to look beyond clinical protocols alone.

Many midwives sense there is more to understand about the body. About nutrition, adaptation, traditional herbal wisdom, and the subtle patterns that shape maternal wellbeing, yet there is little space within formal training to explore these layers.

This training is for those midwives.

It offers a space to step outside the purely clinical lens and explore pregnancy through a broader, integrative perspective that honours both evidence-based medicine and the longstanding traditions that have supported women across many generations.

The intention is not to change the care you provide, but to expand your lens - supporting deeper insight, more nuanced conversations, and a stronger sense of alignment between your knowledge, intuition, and practice.

I am Anna-Maria, a qualified and actively practising naturopath, nutritionist, traditional western herbalist, and birth doula with more than 15 years of clinical experience supporting women through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the wider cycles of women’s health.

My practice lives at the meeting point of contemporary health science and traditional ways of understanding the body. I am deeply interested in the physiological patterns that shape maternal wellbeing, and in how clinical knowledge, lived experience, and traditional wisdom can sit alongside one another.

In addition to my clinical work, I am a facilitator and educator who values learning that is both evidence-based and honours traditional holistic medicine. My teaching style weaves evidence, clinical insight, and reflection, creating space for practitioners to deepen not only what they know, but how they see and interpret the bodies they work with every day.

This training is currently in development and will be released once the curriculum is approved by the ACM.

If you feel curious about exploring pregnancy through a broader physiological and integrative lens and want to be part of a learning experience designed specifically for midwives, you’re warmly invited to register your interest.

Joining the waitlist means you’ll:

• Be the first to hear when enrolment opens
• Receive updates as the program takes shape
• Have the opportunity to share what would make this training most valuable for your practice

A space for midwives who want to keep learning, questioning, and deepening their understanding of the body they work with every day.

Naturopathic Pregnancy Care for Midwives

Understanding pathology, nutrition and herbal remedies for pregnancy and the postpartum.

Traditional Naturopathic Pregnancy Care for Midwives

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You can expect learning across areas such as:

And throughout the training, you will:

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