Acuneedling™ is a premier online education provider offering Acuneedling for Midwives and Acustimulation for Birth Workers courses. We are also a research hub increasing evidence to inform practice.
Our courses are designed and led by experts in the field of acupuncture and childbirth. We are passionate about helping birth workers learn the latest evidence-based techniques.
Our aim is to empower midwives and birth workers to provide safe and effective complementary therapy care to birthing mothers and to also provide a comprehensive hub of resources and evidence to best support evidence-based practice for health practitioners.
Check out our crowdfunding page where we are raising not-for-profit funds for complementary therapy research in pregnancy and childbirth. The worldwide goal is to reach 200,000 donations of only $5 per family. Please help if you can!
Our research wants to look at a universal complementary therapy guideline for maternity services. Further research for nausea and vomiting, anxiety, pre-birth treatment, labour activation, pain management and breech. Plus novel research into midwifery-led acuneedling and conditions such as pregnancy induced hypertension, small for gestational age, heartburn, gestational diabetes and many more.
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Kate and Heidi
Dr. Kate Levett
Kate is a practitioner and researcher, with over 20 years’ experience as an acupuncturist, researcher, birth educator and teacher. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Medicine Sydney, at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Kate is a specialist in pregnancy and birth, and completed her PhD investigating the use of complementary therapies for pain relief in labour.
Kate is a Mentor for the MAMPs program (Maternity Acupuncture Mentoring and Peer support) and has completed the ‘Labour and Delivery Clinical Intensive’ training for maternity acupuncturists at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn. She is a consultant for the BUB App, Hypnobirthing Australia™, CalmBirth™, Lamaze International and the Obstetrical Acupuncture Association in Canada. She has produced an online video course on acupressure and massage techniques for labour for parents and practitioners to access.
Heidi Williams
Heidi is a privately practising endorsed midwife offering homebirth, with over 10 years' experience working within the public and private hospital maternity system. Heidi's complementary therapy education and training includes remedial massage with shiatsu, clinical hypnotherapy and reiki. She is passionate about midwives providing treatments to women in their care and working with hospitals in Australia to develop guidelines for midwives to practice needling.
Heidi has Master of Midwifery in research looking at childbearing aged women's attitudes and beliefs to using acupuncture during pregnancy and the perinatal period and is currently a PhD candidate looking at the feasibility, acceptability and experiences of acuneedling for malposition during labour and birth.
PUBLICATIONS
http://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2020.0529
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.04.010
PhD
The feasibiliity, acceptability and experiences of acuneedling (midwife administered acupuncture) for fetal malposition during labour and birth: A mixed method approach incorporating the Acuneedling for Posterior Position (APP) Trial pilot study.
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