I am a fully Register Midwife and a member of the College of Midwives. I have attended births at homes, birthing centers and hospitals in Montreal, New York and Los Angeles. I have practiced in the most precarious conditions in remote areas of Cameroon and in Northern Canada with the Inuit communities and in Kenya with the Samburu tribe. I have lead workshops on midwifery skills to midwife-students and midwives and I have acted as a preceptor and teacher. I have also taught nurses, doctors, midwives, traditional birth assistants and students of those fields.
Background
As a midwife in Canada, I have a fully autonomous practice and continuity of care in which I diagnose, prescribe and administer drugs. I have the full medical responsibility of my patients in prenatal, labor & delivery and postpartum including the medical responsibility for the newborn until 6 weeks of life. I have full hospital privileges in high-risk facilities and I have cared as a first assistant in c/s, trained to repair 4’ tears, in women wellness, including family planning, and in obstetric emergency skills including neonatal resuscitation.
Since 2001, I have been active within the areas of women’s rights and pregnancy, first as an activist against child sexual abuse and then as an advocate for assault and rape victims. As part of my involvement within this field and in association with CONNECT, a New York City based non-profit organization dedicated to prevent interpersonal violence and to promote gender justice, I have co-led a panel which has initiated a training program for doulas offering services to victims of abuse. To pursue my interest for conflict resolution, in 2013, I have taken and graduated from a short graduated program from l’Université de Sherbrook in Restorative Justice.
I have recently completed a graduate program in Clinical Global Health and I am presently enroll in a graduate program at the University of Geneva on Global Health and Human Rights. I have recently been formally invited to teach a graduate course on Obstetric in Remote Areas in the Clinical Global Health Program of the Université du Québec as an Associate Professor.
On an other note, I have been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for decades. I have developed and taught teacher training programs in Montreal, New York City and Los Angeles. I have been invited to teach in international yoga festivals and conferences as a lead teacher. In 2012, I authored a chapter on pre- and postnatal yoga, a book approved by the SOGC (Society of Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Canada) about physical activities during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
