Natural & Emergency Childbirth (summer)

Ever considered a home birth?

Interested in midwifery?

Wondering what you would do if there was no doctor available to help?

Want to know about herbs during and after pregnancy?

Since time immemorial, women have been surrounding and supporting each other during childbirth. Skilled hands of relatives and neighbors welcomed tiny new additions into the world in the familiar surroundings of the family home.

Now as always, expectant mothers and fathers seek a safe environment for the birth of their child.

What will be covered:

• Creating the perfect home birth environment
• Pros and cons of home birth
• Preparing for home birth
• Stages of birth
• Abnormal presentations
• Herbal medicine for pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and nursing*
• Question and answer

Two Class Offerings:

Sunday, April 25, 2021

1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Light refreshments will be served.

Suggested donation of $50/attendee will be collected.

Sunday, August 8, 2021

1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Light refreshments will be served.

Suggested donation of $50/attendee will be collected.

* The herbal portion will be viewing a video made especially for this class.

About the Speaker: Kelly Abon

Kelly Abon, a paramedic for 24 years, started her medical journey on the coattails of a family doctor who took her under his wing as a freshman in high school. Kelly received her license from Northeast State Technical Community College in 1996. Kelly's career began in northeast Tennessee where she enjoyed working as a volunteer and in the professional arena in 1997. Kelly had the privilege to work with the Ministry of Health in the Marshall Islands for seven years, providing medical aid to the village of Laura on the capital island of Majuro. Her work in clouded the facilitation of short-term medical missions teams, overseeing day-to-day emergency care, emergency delivery of over 1,000 babies, and working with both the tuberculosis and Hanson's Disease care teams. After her return home to the States in 2002, she received the outstanding alumni award from the American Association of Community Colleges for her work done in the Marshall Islands. Kelly and her family now live in East Tennessee. Kelly is a wife and mother of five homeschooled children. She has continued to work as a paramedic and continues to serve the Marshallese people living in the eastern part of the United States.

About the Instructor: Alicia Wornicov

Alicia's plant journey began about twenty years ago when she was fifteen years old. She was serving in missions in Chile and the Father began to orchestrate a calling over her life to serve people through plants and natural medicine. She began to mentor under some great herbalists in her home state of California and the Father blessed each step, always providing someone to pour in generations of knowledge into her life. She lived with the Mapuche people of the southern Andes in Chile where she learned to see plants as a vital part of everyday life, and the great opportunity that this was to be able to serve others by teaching them these ways. When she moved to Tennessee in 2006, she began to spend several hours a day outdoors. Most of life was spent in the woods, fields and streams intently learning each plant, mushroom, ecosystem and foraging method she could, committing them to memory and learning their uses as food and medicine. She studied through an herb school for four years as well but definitely believes that creation and Creator are the best teachers, by far. She is carrying on her native legacy as a Powhatan and Wompanoag woman and honoring that heritage by teaching the people of these ancient and crucial skills. Over the course of twenty years, she has been a student, teacher, instructor, mentor, writer, speaker and entrepreneur. But mostly she likes to focus as using what God has called her to do to serve those around her.