Birthsong Midwifery Workbook: Basic Level Study Guide with Coloring Pages

The Birthsong Midwifery Workbook, 7th Edition, is a comprehensive basic-level midwifery study guide designed for beginning and intermediate learners. With over 100 additional pages, this expanded edition offers clear, evidence-based explanations of pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and newborn care. Written by experienced midwifery educators, this workbook is one of the most trusted resources for midwife training, CPM exam preparation, and midwifery school coursework.

Each chapter features learning objectives, essential concepts, clinical tips, and a wide range of exercises including matching, labeling, case studies, and anatomy coloring pages. These tools help students understand key skills, strengthen critical thinking, and prepare for hands-on clinical practice.

The workbook emphasizes culturally grounded midwifery care, communication skills, and community-based perinatal support. Students will gain foundational knowledge in anatomy and physiology, fetal development, prenatal care, labor support, postpartum assessment, newborn evaluation, and emergency response in homebirth and birth center settings.

Used for more than forty years by midwifery programs, apprenticeships, community birth workers, and doulas seeking deeper clinical understanding, the Birthsong Midwifery Workbook remains one of the most accessible and trusted educational resources available.

Perfect for:
• Student midwives
• CPM and NARM exam preparation
• Midwifery programs and preceptors
• Birth center and homebirth training
• Self-paced midwifery study
• Aspiring midwives and community birth workers

This expanded 7th edition continues the tradition of practical, community-rooted midwifery education—ideal for every birth worker beginning or strengthening their path to becoming a midwife.

Daphne Singingtree is an educator in midwifery, plant medicine, and emergency preparedness with over fifty years of teaching experience. She attended her first birth in 1974 and practiced as a homebirth and birth center midwife until 2002. She is widely recognized for her contributions to midwifery education and regulation in the United States, including helping establish the Midwifery Education and Accreditation Council and contributing to Oregon's first direct-entry midwifery licensing law. She is the founder of multiple midwifery schools and the author of several midwifery education texts.

Dana Moore, BSM, CPM, LM, is a licensed midwife, educator, and writer with nearly twenty years of experience in homebirth, birth center, and community-based perinatal care. She comes from a lineage of midwives and continues the work of her great-grandmother, who served families in Logan County, West Virginia, for more than forty years. Dana is committed to compassionate, evidence-informed midwifery and to creating learning environments that support confidence, clarity, and skill development in student midwives. Her work emphasizes trauma-informed teaching, practical clinical skills, and inclusive perinatal care.