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Certificate in Natural Fertility Education (Please see below)

Courses for Women and Couples                                                       Natural Contraception
Diaphragm Fitting and Use Education
Natural Conception & Pregnancy
Menstrual Wellbeing
Telephone Consultations and Distance Education
 

To make your appointment please phone (03) 9830 5280. A GP referral is not necessary. A certificate for attendance of an appointment is available upon request for your employer. All education is on an individual or couple basis and available at:             
The Women's Clinic on Richmond Hill
    366 Church Street, Richmond, 3131
Wise Woman Business
    20 Golding Street, Canterbury, 3126

Fees: 
The Natural Fertility and Health Course Booklet is $25.00. 
The first appointment is 45 minutes in duration and the fee is $50.00. 
All review appointments are up to 30 minutes long and the fee is $45.00. 
Telephone consultations are available and the fee is $45.00. 
A concession of $5.00 on appointment fees is available to full time students and to those who hold a health care card.

Payment can be made by cash, credit card (MasterCard or Visa) or cheque. Cheques are made payable to Wise Woman Business.

Natural Contraception
This course is for couples who want reliable natural contraception for the short term or the long term. 

All women can learn to accurately identify the safe times in their cycle with the correct information and support from a qualified teacher. 

The simple charting technique you will learn in this course can be relied upon whether your cycle is regular or irregular.  Three appointments are attended one month apart.

Special natural contraception learning situations would include;
         ◊ coming off all the Pill, Depo-Provera, Implanon or Mirena 
         ◊ polycystic ovary syndrome
         ◊ endometriosis
         ◊ early menopause
         ◊ peri-menopause
         ◊ a situation of "stress" of any kind
         ◊ being under or over ideal weight and asthma
         ◊ breastfeeding
         ◊ combining the use of a diaphragm or condoms with fertility awareness
         ◊ use of the emergency contraceptive pill; Prostinor-2
 

The course can also cover combing use of a diaphragm, condoms or emergency contraception with fertility awareness. A woman's understanding of the fertile time in her cycle may also improve the success rates of these methods. 

Couples choose natural contraception over pharmaceutical contraception for many reasons including side- effects and possible longer term adverse consequences of pharmaceutical methods, religious faith, spiritual, environmental and a preference for a natural approach to most things in life, and this course respects all of those reasons. 

Diaphragm Fitting and Use Education
Appointments for diaphragm fitting and use education are available at the Women's Clinic on Richmond Hill each Wednesday between 4.30PM and 8PM. The correct sized diaphragm and contraceptive jelly are available for purchase at the appointment.  

Natural Conception & Pregnancy
This course is designed for couples who wish to plan and conceive their pregnancies consciously or are having difficulty in getting pregnant. 

It is important to remember that most couples diagnosed with infertility have reduced fertility, not biological infertility, and lifestyle changes and natural fertility education may assist them to get pregnant. This course has helped many couples to get pregnant naturally sometimes after many years of trying.  

In this course you will learn how to maximise male and female fertility naturally through life style changes, supplements and menstrual charting to ensure sexual intercourse is being timed accurately with ovulation in the woman's cycle. 

A diagnosis with any of the following would make this course particularly helpful:  
  ◊  unexplained infertility
  ◊  polycystic ovary syndrome
  ◊  endometriosis
  ◊  irregular cycles
  ◊  low sperm count
  ◊  being under or over ideal weight
  ◊  under significant stress of any kind or taking the fertility Clomid

Use of ovulation prediction tests such as the Lady Free Fertility Tester or Maybe Baby can sometimes be confusing and difficult to interpret. A consultation can help you understand the accuracy, advantages and limitations of these testers.    

Menstrual Wellbeing
Most women experience premenstrual symptoms (PMS) of some kind in the two-week period leading up to menstruation. PMS range from annoying or mildly worrisome through to severe and debilitating. This course is designed to help you understand the underlying causes of your symptoms and to establish natural solutions to them through lifestyle, supplements and menstrual charting. 

Telephone Consultations
All courses are available via telephone consultations. Upon request the Natural Fertility and Health Course workbook will be sent to you and consultations take place via phone consultations. STD consultations can take place between 7 and 10 PM Mondays to Fridays.

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Certificate in Natural Fertility Education
 

The Certificate in Natural Fertility Education is a professional development course and is divided into two parts:                                                           Part 1 covers the course content listed below.                                                Part 2 comprises completing at home an open-book paper on a comprehensive range of natural fertility education scenarios and interpreting four fertility charts.

The Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to all who attend Part 1.             The Certificate in Natural Fertility Education will be awarded to all who attend  Part 1 and successfully complete Part 2. Part 2 must be completed and submitted within 12 months of commencing Part 1.

Professional Development Allocations

Endorsed by the Royal College of Nursing Australia.                                 16 (CNE) points have been allocated to Part 1 of the course.                      25 (CNE) points have been allocated when Part 1 and Part 2 are completed.

 

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Endorsed by Royal College of Midwives.                                               16.5 MidPlus PDCP have been allocated.

 

National Herbalist Association Australia Members are eligible for NHAA medical science CPE points.

Australian Register of Homeopaths Members are eligible for CPE points under the  category of non-homeopathic health related content

Who would find this course useful?                                                               This course is a professional development course specifically designed for: midwives, nurses, natural therapists, counsellors, dieticians, educators, youth workers and medical practitioners who are working, or thinking about working, in women's health services such as,

◊ family planning 
         ◊ well women's health
         ◊ sexual and reproductive health 
         ◊ assisted reproductive services
         ◊ midwifery 
         ◊ maternal and child health 
         ◊ lactation consultancy 
         ◊ school health, youth work 
         ◊ naturopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic
         ◊ nutrition
         ◊ intellectual disability 
         ◊ childbirth education

Students of the above disciplines are welcome to attend this course.  Professional development allocations apply to both graduates and undergraduates.

Learning Objectives 
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of male and female fertility
Understand the principles of natural fertility education 
Teach the rules for safe, effective natural contraception in all menstrual cycles 
Aid pregnancy in the sub-fertile situation 
Teach correct use, benefits and limitations of home use fertility tests
Provide life style education to improve wellbeing
Identify the circumstances for which a medical referral would be given

Curriculum
◊ Male and female fertility
◊ Five decades of solid scientific research and clinical trials into modern fertility
     awareness         
◊ Safe, effective natural contraception in all menstrual cycle situations from
     menarche to menopause
◊ Special teaching situations such as breastfeeding, polycystic ovarian
    syndrome, peri-menopause, endometriosis, the stress-affected cycle
◊ Combining use of barrier methods with fertility-awareness. Prostinor-2 and
    'withdrawal' 
◊ Pre-conception health care and conceiving consciously
◊ Causes of infertility and sub-fertility and aiding pregnancy in the sub-fertile
     situation
◊ Male and female factor fertility problems fertility investigations
◊ Correct use and interpretation of home-use fertility tests
◊ The natural fertility education process
◊ When a medical referral should be given 
◊ PMT: the causes and natural solutions

More and more women and couples are turning to natural methods of fertility management and this course is designed to equip health practitioners with the necessary knowledge to be able to meet this rising demand with confidence. 
The course is evidence based on five decades of solid scientific research and clinical trials. Evaluations describe the course as both empowering personally and professionally as well as extremely enjoyable.

Melbourne Course Dates in 2008
	February 25, 26, & 27  Monday to Wednesday
	or August 25, 26 & 27  Monday to Wednesday

Time:      10.00 - 4.30 

Where:    Mayfield Education Centre  
                2-10 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East 3123

Cost:     Part 1 $550.00 (students and first year graduates: $530.00)                                To be paid with registration.

                Part 2 $75.00 (students and first year graduates: $65.00)                                 To be paid with submission of open-book paper.

The limit of only 20 places in each course allows for thorough analysis and absorption of course material. The deposit of $50.00 is non-refundable. No refund will be given with a cancellation of less than 3 weeks notice.

A number of eateries are close by to choose from.

The course can also be run in your work place by appointment. 

Download Registration Form in Word Format and either send or fax it to Wise Woman Business.

Course Evaluations:  
It is vital that women understand their bodies...It empowers them to have a bigger say in decision making in their reproductive lives...An invaluable workshop...presented in such a simple, interesting and articulate way...A pleasure to listen to...information gained will benefit all our patients..

A most informative, well-presented and valuable session...I would suggest that this program is a must do---so much valuable, empowering knowledge to be gained and is so easy to understand. Reinforces how wonderful we (women) are...

Extremely empowering. I found the principles of self-observation to identify the fertile and infertile phases most informative/educational. It will enable me to re-educate friends/nurses...

This has been excellent in developing my own personal knowledge of my body and fertility cycle. It more than met my expectations...

Enjoyed this immensely. It has not only empowered me, but will enable me to empower other women with valuable information about their bodies. Women need to know what is normal. I will now feel more comfortable talking to mothers I care fore about their fertility and will encourage them to take more notice of their wonderful bodies. Such knowledge enables women to pass the information on to daughters/friends/mothers/sisters etc...

The more we understand about the finer details of how our bodies work, the more can appreciate what is normal and can more readily detect what is not normal...

Natural Fertility and Health Courses
for Fertility Management and Menstrual Wellbeing
EMAIL: Wise Woman Business
P0 Box 250 Canterbury, Victoria Australia 3126
Phone/Fax 613 9830 5280

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