What  You’ll Learn In The 10 Modules Of The Love Your Birth Online Course:

Module 1: Health In Pregnancy

• How to choose the provider and birth setting that is best for you

• The sensitive topic of intimacy and sex during pregnancy

• How to release intense emotions, trauma, and fears that can affect your birth

Module 2: Preparing The Mind

• Understand your labor sensations – and their purpose as an intricate feedback system that helps labor progress, while guiding you to move and get into the optimal position for birthing

• Transform your association with intense sensations from severe, painful suffering to the building of a series of healthy waves that allow your body to do what it knows how to do to birth your baby

• Cultivate the mindset and attitudes to ROCK your childbirth, while embracing and loving your experience each step of the way

• Learn the most important labor skills to practice regularly and anywhere so they become habitual, and empower you when needed on the big day!

• Experience meditation, mindfulness and relaxation techniques to help with daily stresses and triggers so you can be connected, calm and powerful during labor.

Module #3: Testing Procedures

• Learn the purpose of all the essential blood, urine and lab tests and options for additional testing to consider

• Calculate your own estimated due date and understand the importance of determining the most accurate date possible

• Understand the implications of blood types and what to do if you have an Rh negative blood type and why

• Get informed on some some of the standard, automatic and elective screenings and treatments and why you might want to refuse some of them as an informed patient

Module #4: Anatomy & Physiology

• Understand what’s going on with your body and emotions in each stage of childbirth so you know what is normal and common to embrace, not resist or fear

• Learn common medical and examination terms  around childbirth so you can be empowered in your conversations with birthing professionals

• Discover the essential activities for the sacred first hour after birth

• Understand Labor Flow: when to call your provider in labor, day and evening vs middle of night; when to avoid going to the hospital, and what to do if you're not feeling baby move as much as usual 

• Diagrams and model of baby,pelvis, placenta, umbilical cord and membranes included in a downloadable PDF

Module #5: Labor Coping Techniques

• How to manage an early labor (best times to meditate, walk, rest, sleep, make love, and take a warm bath and why)

• Best suggestions for eating and drinking

• How and why to manage alone time and social time

• How to support and stay in a labor trance when in active labor, so your instinctual bodily process of birthing can more effectively proceed

• The best vocalizations, visualizations, and breathing techniques for grounding, calming, and releasing tension

• What to do when crowning to reduce risk of tearing

• Learn inspirational symbols and pictures that naturally remind you of your feminine capacity, strength, and support around you

• Hot/Cold, Shower/Tub water supportive experiences

• Three genres of musical playlists with examples and why

• Optimal labor and birth positions, movement changes with extensive video demonstrations that include props like the birth ball, chair and more

Module #6 Birth Preferences

• Teachings of the pros and cons of over 50 possible interventions and disturbances from seemingly innocuous to most invasive from labor to birth, postpartum and newborn care.

• You have a say in how your birth happens, make informed decisions regardless of complications, here are just SOME of the MANY things covered:

  • Eating and drinking vs IV fluids

  • Freedom to move or staying in bed

  • Clothing to wear

  • Kids at birth or not

  • Intermittent vs continuous electronic fetal monitoring

  • Doppler vs fetoscope to check baby’s heart rate

  • Labor progress time limits

  • Artificially vs spontaneously ‘breaking your water’

  • Medication options to induce or augment labor

  • Sleep or pain meds, epidural or not

  • Episiotomy or not

  • Who catches baby

  • Who discovers and announces sex of baby

  • Immediate vs Delayed/Optimal cord clamping

  • Lotus birth or not

  • Placenta ingestion or not

  • Forceps/vacuum extraction or not

  • Cesarean birth - when it’s necessary and life saving, how to approach and deal with it in the moment and then healing afterwards; gentle cesarean

  • Breastfeeding on demand/lactation support vs formula and water supplements

Module #7 Guidance For Dads And Partners

• Understand the physical and emotional changes you have never seen before, so you accept and embrace them with confidence and calm

• How and why you should build relationships with the provider and birth team as early as possible

• Why you don’t need to learn specific labor support techniques

• Helpful words and how to communicate with her in labor

• Massage techniques that help

• Learn what moms commonly say in late labor so you can stay calm and understand how to respond, how to deal with your reaction to her working so hard, her intense emotions, and appearing to be in pain

• Tips to support her cues and helping her during later labor stages and pushing

• Ways to help and protect her during the first sacred hour after birth

• For Hospital Setting: how to deal with her commitment and the offers of pain medication vs her sincere request for it and more

• How to deal with mom starting to push before the midwife arrives to your homebirth or you arrive at birth setting.

Module #8 Postpartum - the 4th trimester

• Learn exactly what postpartum is, how long it lasts, and how long it takes to feel back to yourself

• How to prepare during pregnancy for adjusting to caring for a newborn, breastfeeding, healing and recovery (many modern day women are stunned today about all that is involved!)

• Learn priorities during this time for what is needed, how and what to delegate to ensure everything that can be, is taken care of by others and off your plate

• How to transition from 'doing' and accomplishing your-to-do list, to 'being,' and living in tune with your and your baby’s needs

• Essential nutrition, hydration and whole food/herbal supplements for postpartum

• Self-identify signs of postpartum depression, anxiety and psychiatric illness vs normal emotional changes so you can get help early for postpartum depression or anxiety

• Receive comprehensive head to toe training on what to expect physically and emotionally, and the reasons why, with some suggestions/natural remedies for common issues such as:

  • Lack of sleep and exhaustion

  • Breast changes

  • Nipple soreness

  • Colostrum to breastmilk

  • Bleeding patterns

  • Cramping

  • Perineal soreness and stitches

  • Constipation and hemorrhoids

  • Return to pre pregnant weight

  • Return to cycle and fertility

  • Return to sex

  • Relationship changes

  • Sibling adjustment

  • Body image: how to love your postpartum body

Module #9 Breastfeeding and Newborn Care

• Learn how to be on baby’s biological clock

• Learn cues on how to interpret baby’s communication, including signs of hunger and types of discomfort

• Understand how to soothe and comfort a fussy or crying baby

• Discover how to prepare for breastfeeding in pregnancy, to maximize chances of breastfeeding success (and things that undermine a mom’s confidence in mothering and breastfeeding)

• Understand 'What’s normal' and how to identify warning signs to report to your midwife/pediatrician

• Learn how to know if baby is getting enough milk, peeing and pooping normal amounts, expected initial weight loss and gain so you can avoid the cycle of not thinking baby is getting enough, supplementing and making less breast milk

Module #10 Meditation, Breathwork, Visualization and Relaxation

• Learn a variety of breathing exercises designed to support you to relax and feel grounded

• Learn mindfulness practices to anchor you out of a busy mind and stressful thoughts, into the present without any judgments or mental  story

• Expand your senses and sensitivity with head to toe body scanning to release tension

• Get powerful visualizations to help you cope, access inner calm, and connect you deeply to yourself and baby

So Just To Recap, Here’s What’s Included In The Love Your Birth Online Course:

• 10 Comprehensive Video Modules Covering:

  • Holistic Health And Nutrition for Pregnancy to Postpartum

  • Preparing the Mind

  • Testing and Procedures

  • Birth Planning & Preferences

  • Anatomy and Physiology

  • Labor Coping Techniques

  • Tips for Dads/Partners

  • Postpartum – the Fourth Trimester

  • Breastfeeding and Newborn Care

  • Meditation, Breathwork, and Visualization

• Downloadable Course Workbook to help guide you through the videos with actionable steps to apply and discuss with your partner and care provider.

• Recipes for Pregnancy, Natural Nausea Remedies, Postpartum Herbal Teas & Labor Drink

• Postpartum Support Calendar

• 10 Page Birth Preferences Guidebook (with over 50 preferences to be aware of!)..and so much more!

           (This information is so helpful that even Doulas purchase the course for training and certification!) 

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