Naoli’s physical workshops are recommencing with her upcoming 2022 European summer tour! 
Dates and locations will be posted soon. ​

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Challenging Births

preventing and solving childbirth difficulties

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Birth is a physiological event for which all beings are usually well prepared (in body, mind and spirit, of both mother and baby), however, in a small percentage of cases (10-15% according to the World Health Organization), it becomes essential to deliver special expert and wise care by the midwife or other professional assisting the birth. In these potentially critical situations, there are special techniques and practices upon which the mother's and baby's survival and health can depend. Vital, healthy and thriving mothers and babies are always a joyous celebration and, even though it is not always in our hands to control the outcome of a birth, it is of vital importance to count on knowledge and tools to invite life to stay and flourish.

​The "Challenging Births" workshop created and taught by Naoli Vinaver, stems from her long experience as a home birth midwife. The workshop is designed for all birth practitioners to open up their scope of understanding on birth physiology and to review, practice and upgrade their skills in the prevention and resolution of birth challenges.

workshop topics will be drawn from the following list:

• Understanding birth as a physiological process within the scope of Midwifery
• The symbiotic relationship of mother and baby before, during and after birth.
• Debunking obstetrical myths regarding " normalcy" 
• Understanding the fine line between normalcy and dysfunction
• When " extraordinary" also means normal
• Understanding birth as a dynamic process
• Conventional vs. Active attention, expanded protocols for safe birth outcomes
• Assessing birth risks realistically
• Preventing childbirth complications: When to wait and when to act to promote change
• The rebozo as an extension of our hands
• The role of fetal and maternal movement in birth
• The pregnant female body on the last trimester
• Assessing fetal positioning in utero and her/his active role in birth
• Anatomy of the birthing woman
• Traditional Rebozo techniques for correcting fetal mal-positioning: posterior, asynclitic, deflexed, disengaged
• Traditional Rebozo techniques for stimulating fetal descent and improving labor
• Naoli's Rebozo Pelvic Expanding Maneuver
• Naoli's Breech-turning 3-step Protocol
• Naoli's Rebozo Fetal Centralizing Maneuver
• Naoli's Rebozo Oblique to Cephalic Maneuver​​
• Naoli's Double Rebozo Shake-down Fetal Engaging Maneuver
• Naoli's Rebozo Pubic Bone Engaging Maneuver
• Naoli's Rebozo Fetal Disengaging Maneuver
• Resolving breech birth maneuvers
• The use of Rebozo in a postpartum  hemorrhage
• Preventing and reverting Pre-eclampsia
• Premature Rupture of membranes midwifery protocol
• Prevention and solutions for shoulder dystocia: conventional and Naoli's original maneuvers
• Neonatal resuscitation with baby as a full active participant
• Prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage
• The active participation of mother and family during and after the birth
• The conscious newborn baby: bringing her/him into postpartum calmness 

Naoli began apprenticing with traditional midwives in her native Mexico in 1987, as she received the calling to be a midwife through endless recurring dreams. The Rebozo is one of Mexican traditional midwives' main tools for preventing and solving childbirth difficulties and Naoli fell in love with its direct, vast and gentle effectiveness.  

Naoli trained as a professional midwife at Sage Femme and Maternidad La Luz, midwifery schools in the USA between the years of 1987 and 1990, becoming a Certified Professional Midwife by the NARM credentials (North America Registry of Midwives). Since then, Naoli has actively and tirelessly worked as a home birth midwife, weaving her understanding and practice of Traditional midwifery with her Professional midwifery training.

Naoli's Breech-turning 3-step Protocol - with 97% success rate at turning breech babies- has resulted in her having very few breech births in her long midwifery career. Recently she went to serve an internship at Universitäts Klinikum Frankfurt, Germany with foremost breech expert Dr. Frank Lowen, where she accompanied a number of complex breech births, learning the techniques to resolve them.

Up to date, Naoli has attended over 1700 home births with only 2% transfer rate to the hospital (in the last 20 years of her practice), with 0% maternal nor fetal deaths intra-partum. Naoli attributes this to the combination of clinical and intuitive attentiveness to the individual needs of each woman/baby, together with the use of many of the techniques covered in this workshop.

Naoli's physical workshops offer an up-close, direct hands-on learning experience.  It is recommended to be complemented with the Art of Birth "online platform" containing videos and educational materials offering an intensive detailed resource for constant reference and study.

Art of Birth - Resource Learning Center

"​Us midwives love the easy births, but
​it is the challenging ones that make us be midwives" - Naoli Vinaver

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Challenging Births Photo Gallery

Challeging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Assessing fetal position in utero to help in baby's descent. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Auscultation of fetal heartbeat and variability to assess fetal well-being.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Explaining the mechanics of the pelvis to expand the ischial spines. Photo by lela Beltrão.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Explaining the mechanics of the pelvis to aid the descent of the baby under the pubic bone. Photo by lela Beltrão.

The midwife's bag containing materials and elements to help her handle the various possible complications at a home birth. Naoli Vinaver's workshop Challenging births.

Naoli Vinaver's maneuver to open up the internal passage of the ischial spines for the baby to pass through. Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver.

Pelvis and Mexican rebozos placed to illustrate the position of application for Naoli Vinaver's Rebozo Pelvic Expanding Maneuver.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Explaining the mechanics of the pelvis to aid in correcting asynclitism. Photo by lela Beltrão.

Naoli Vinaver's Challenging births workshop, as she demonstrates how to check for baby's position. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Auscultation of fetal heartbeat and variability to assess fetal well-being. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Naoli Vinaver's creation, the "dialatometer", to aid as an educational tool for midwifery students and apprentices to learn cervical dilation.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver, practicing Naoli's Rebozo Pelvic Expanding Maneuver in a leaning-back maternal position.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Naoli demostrating the summer-sault technique for a baby coming with several wraps of cord around the neck. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Naoli demonstrating how to do a pelvimetry to check the curve of the pubic bone.

Courtesy photo of baby Violeta born in the physiological squatting position by mother Renata. Midwife, Naoli Vinaver. Photo by Além d'Olhar fotografia.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Naoli showing a healthy placenta to describe its wisdom in prevention of hemorrahges postpartum. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Naoli Vinaver's Challenging Births workshop, demonstrating the inlet and ischial spines' mechanics of the pelvis.

Naoli Vinaver auscultating the baby's heartbeat directly with ear to evaluate rhythm and variability for establishing well-being. Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver, practicing Naoli's Rebozo Pelvic Expanding Maneuver in a squatting upright on "Naoli's birth poof" maternal position.

Participant taking notes at Naoli Vinaver's workshop. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver, practicing Naoli's Rebozo Pelvic Expanding Maneuver in a squatting upright maternal position. On the background, Naoli's "dilatometer".

Challenging Births workshop by Naoli Vinaver. Naoli demonstrating a technique for resolving shoulder dystocia. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Naoli Vinaver's Challenging Births workshop, demonstrating the placenta to illustrate hemorrhage prevention techniques. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Naoli Vinaver's Challenging Births workshop. Naoli demonstrating the ideal position for a baby to descend flexed into the pelvis. Photo by Lela Beltrão.

Please check with local workshop organizers for price, schedule, registration and other details (see calendar).

​If you are interested in hosting Naoli to come to your region for a workshop, seminar or talk, please send us an email.

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"​While solving physiological birth challenges with technology and techniques, we midwives are also guided by ancient intuitive wisdom"  - Naoli Vinaver

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