Oxford in person Biomechanics for Birth 1st August 2025

This is a special course for 15 people. It's going to be filmed as part of the development of our trainer training package. 

The venue is the Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, ten miles outside Oxford.

Molly O'Brien has become a full time freelance teacher after a 20 year career as a full time clinical midwife in the NHS. Her career has been characterised by a passion to use and develop midwifery skills that help women keep birth normal.

The course began as  in house teaching at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital 2018 and has evolved into an information packed mix of practical techniques, anatomy and physiology and salutogenesis. It's aimed primarily at midwives but of value to antenatal educators, doulas, physiotherapists and all other birth professionals.

It teaches skills that have the potential to transform practice, especially when working with obstructed Labour. Molly examines the physiology of the pelvis, the biomechanics of birth, It teaches skills that have the potential to transform practice, especially when working with obstructed Labour but it is also a advocacy for midwifery skills and asks burning questions about some aspects of current obstetric practice. 

Since it's humble beginnings she's taught this course in over 100 different trusts all over the UK and Ireland - several times over in quite a few of them - been face to face in Spain, Portugal, Chile, Ireland and Belgium and online in the USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Bermuda, and she has an active social media group with over 6000 members on Facebook..