MEDICAL SPANISH LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOLS IN MEXICO
Study Spanish and Study Traditional Mexican Midwifery Today with a Mexican Midwife
in\Cuernavaca, Mexico, south of Mexico City 90 minutes

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Hola Charley, Everything is going wonderfully! I think there have been 10-12 partos since I´ve been here, so it´s been an incredibly busy week. Even though Í´m a bit tired, it has been an amazing opportunity to learn alot. My first day or two were a bit disorienting because I wasn´t sure what I should do and if I was getting in the way. Also, even though half my friends back home are Mexican and I speak spanish with them often, it´s a different thing to be totally emersed and also have to use it in a completely different context, like birth. But by the third day I eased into things and became much more comfortable with the language and assisting with births and consultations. The family is really wonderful and welcoming just like you told me, so that really helps. I´m thoroughly enjoying the work and the experiences and the people, just maybe I won´t want to leave when the five weeks are up! Thank you for checking up on me! !  :) ~Julia Pollard, San Francisco Bay Area, June 2009

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CUERNAVACA, MEXICO (1 hour south of Mexico City): Angelina Martinez Miranda, a traditional Mexican midwife, was trained by her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother from the age of 9. She was a featured international speaker at the September 2007 Midwifery Conference in Norway as well as conferences this year in Italy and Germany (www.Midwiferytoday.com/conferences/Norway2007). You will have the opportunity to study and learn midwifery from her perspective using herbs and prayers as well as inducing labor with IV Pitocin and going in her scrubs into the ER when the need arises. One student helped her deliver 100 babies during a three month internship. Study for as little as one week up to several months. Study Spanish at the same time in a formal school setting or in private classes at Angelina's home. This is a very unique opportunity and is limited to only a few students spaced throughout the year. Contact us in advance to set up this opportunity. Cost varies depending upon your need for Spanish language classes, whether you live with Angelina or elsewhere, length of studies and more. Angelina is a both a personal friend and professional colleague of AVENTURAS LANGUAGES Directors, Charley Hodson, LCSW, and Laura Manning, LCSW. Please contact AVENTURAS LANGUAGES for a consultation regarding this unique training opportunity.

A portion of proceeds benefits healthcare for some of these expectant women who cannot pay for partera (midwife) services or necessary medical tests, infant clothing and more.

VIEW this YouTube video of Angelina in action!

Angelina Martinez Miranda Bio from Midwifery Today (www.midwiferytoday.com)

Angelina Martinez Miranda is a traditional midwife living and practicing in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. She is the inheritor of three generations of midwifery knowledge; her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all traditional midwives, practicing for around 40 years each. Angelina combines their wisdom with the many courses she has taken in midwifery and related subjects to keep up-to-date with evidence-based obstetrics.

Angelina operates a birthing center, located next to her home, where, for years, she and her apprentices have attended an average of 23 births per month, with excellent outcomes. She is highly respected in her community. She is a long-time member of Midwives' Alliance of North America (MANA) Mexico and a founding member of a new state organization created by the traditional midwives of Morelos. An accomplished speaker, she has given talks and workshops at international conferences in South America and the U.S. and was one of the two traditional midwives who attended the ICM Congress in Vienna in 2002. She is a strong source of inspiration for the many traditional midwives in Mexico who are working to preserve and revitalize their profession for the future.'

Angelina was one of the featured speakers at this international midwifery conference for midwives, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals in Cuernavaca, Mexico in August 2007. The medical and midwifery conference will work to bridge traditional midwifery and traditional medical and healing practices with modern medicine.

NEW!!! Just in. Please view Monique's Blog on her 6 weeks of Spanish language studies at Experiencia, Centro Cultural, her weekend school excursions to San Miguel, Guanajuato, Taxco and Playa Ventura, then her two week stay with Angelina learning about traditional Mexican midwifery. Thank you, Monique! Moniques!

PRICING:

TRADITIONAL MIDWIFERY AND HOMESTAY WITH ANGELINA: All studies with Angelina include a homestay with her in her family home including wonderful Mexican food. The cost is noted below. You must be flexible with your hours as babies arrived on their own timing! You must have some intermediate conversational Spanish language skills as this is an immersion experience and Angelina does not speak English! All conversation and instruction is in Spanish! We will assess your Spanish level ahead of time.

MIDWIFERY PROGRAM: Angelina will accept students at all levels of educational background, even if you have no medical or midwifery experience. We have successfully helped students arrange this as a college credit experience. We have sent students who expressed an interest in midwifery studies to students completing a master's level nursing or midwifery program to practicing midwives. Students begin joining Angelina from day one in pre-natal and post-natal home visits, clinic visit consultations as well as in the 'partos' or births. Our student , Jasmine, from Connecticut College spent 6 weeks with Angelina this past summer and attended 25 births and 'caught' 5. She attended one C section operation with Angelina and the mother in the local hospital.

SPANISH IMMERSION LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL IMMERSION STUDIES: We arrange Spanish immersion studies for students either with our partner school, Experiencia Centro Cultural Spanish School in nearby Cuernavaca or private classes at Angelina's home with one of our instructors. Pricing varies depending upon what your language skills are and how long you plan to study in the area. A two week period of combined small group classes and homestay with meals starts at $790 depending upon homestay/study options chosen. Those students that are more in the beginner range often attend school for 2-4 weeks first then move into Angelina's home later for the midwifery experience.  AVENTURAS LANGUAGES provides a reduction in the registration fee below posted school prices for students studying in the midwifery program.

Please contact AVENTURAS LANGUAGES for answers to your preguntas! 

Angelina will be in the Santa Cruz and San Jose, California area for presentations at SJSU and other places in the spring of 2009. It is anticipated that she will be presenting at San Jose State University in the School of Social Work and in San Jose through the Valley Medical Center Health and Hospital System on the subjects of traditional midwifery, traditional indigenous healing methods and the joining of traditional midwifery with medicine. She has been invited by Midwifery Today to speak in Germany at the October 2008 midwifery conference there.

VIEW this YouTube video of Angelina in action!

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