30 modules of clinical perinatal education for birthworkers — from vital signs to systemic violence, from hemorrhage to housing. Built by an OB/GYN.
The clinical essentials every birthworker needs — recognizing danger signs, understanding vital signs, and knowing when to act.
Two of these are free to read right now — Module 1 (Hypertension) and Module 4 (Vital Signs), marked Free below. No payment, no account, nothing to enter. The rest of the Basic tier is $29, and the Full Compendium unlocks all 30 modules plus the visual essays.
Blood pressure monitoring, preeclampsia recognition, neurologic warning signs, and when to escalate.
Postpartum bleeding assessment, lochia patterns, fundal massage basics, and escalation triggers.
Recognizing postpartum infection, wound assessment, fever trajectories, and sepsis red flags.
FreeHow to take and interpret blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiratory rate.
What's normal in the postpartum body — and what isn't. Lochia, involution, hormonal shifts.
Understanding inductions, cesareans, epidurals, and postpartum medications.
Higher-risk conditions and the clinical nuances that separate a good doula from a great one.
Vaginal birth after cesarean — candidacy, risks, uterine rupture recognition, and advocacy in the delivery room.
Recognizing preterm contractions, tocolysis basics, corticosteroid timing, and NICU preparation.
Blood sugar monitoring, nutrition support, hypoglycemia response, and managing GDM across pregnancy.
Twin and higher-order pregnancy — unique risks, delivery planning, and postpartum complications.
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders — screening, support, crisis recognition, and when to refer.
Supply issues, latch problems, mastitis, tongue-tie, and the doula's role in breastfeeding support.
Severe maternal morbidity, hypertensive crises, obstetric hemorrhage, cardiomyopathy, thromboembolism, and anesthesia complications. Not to treat — but to recognize, respond, and advocate before it's too late.
The near-miss framework — understanding SMM indicators, CDC criteria, and the doula's role in early detection.
Eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, and the deadly progression from preeclampsia to crisis. Magnesium sulfate, seizure response.
Massive transfusion protocols, uterine atony, the Four T's, DIC, and what the doula sees when every minute counts.
Peripartum cardiomyopathy — the heart failure that mimics normal pregnancy symptoms. Black women at 3–4× risk.
DVT, pulmonary embolism, and the postpartum window where clots kill. Risk factors, recognition, escalation.
Epidural and spinal risks, post-dural puncture headache, failed intubation, and advocating in the OR.
The things killing women happen outside the hospital. IPV, housing instability, insurance denials, immigration fear, incarceration. The doula as connector — linking clients to the resources that determine whether they survive.
Intimate partner violence screening, safety planning, and the leading cause of maternal death.
Crisis recognition, lethal means counseling, and the second leading cause of maternal death.
Harm reduction, MAT support, NAS, naloxone, and navigating the criminalization of addiction in pregnancy.
Shelter navigation, WIC, SNAP, and the cascading health effects of instability.
Medicaid, marketplace plans, postpartum coverage gaps, and appeals processes.
Medical racism, informed consent, refusal rights, and filing complaints that matter.
Public charge fears, emergency Medicaid, language access, and serving undocumented clients.
Incarcerated pregnancy, shackling bans, reentry planning, and the rights that don't disappear.
Adolescent consent, Title IX, age-gap screening, and supporting the youngest clients.
Stillbirth, miscarriage, TFMR — memory-making, grief support, and being present in pain.
FMLA, PUMP Act, pumping rights, pregnancy discrimination, and the 6-week lie.
Subsidies, childcare deserts, safety evaluation, and the infrastructure crisis behind the curtain.
Narrative, immersive essays that put you inside the clinical moments. Not reference material — lived experience, told through scrolling stories that weave together multiple modules into a single journey.
She delivered a healthy baby. Everyone is smiling. And the most dangerous window of her life just opened.
Three women who "looked fine." Compensated hemorrhage. Postpartum preeclampsia. Peripartum cardiomyopathy.
One client's journey through insurance gaps, discrimination, housing loss — the doula as connector.
Walking into the room after a stillbirth diagnosis. What you say. What you don't. What happens to her body after.
A doula notices what no one else sees. Vital sign pattern recognition. Compensated shock caught at day 4.
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