Module 1
Herstory of Childbirth
In this module, we explore Childbirth's Past, and its new Potential! We offer an in depth exploration into the different Modules of Care, helping you discover who can best attend and support you in your pregnancy and birth journey! While we understand that it can seem futile to prepare for an experience that cannot be described in words, but only uniquely experienced, we show you why aligning your choices with your deepest heartfelt values, is the best preparation for childbirth.
Our Herstory of Childbirth
Deconstructing the history of childbirth serves the purpose of letting go of erroneous beliefs and fears so that we don't end up carrying them in the back of our minds while giving birth!
BirthPath
Find the answers within to your deepest concerns about giving birth. Only you can determine what path is best for you!
Models of Prenatal Care
Learn which model reflects your authentic values and how to recognize and understand your caregivers model and philosophy.
Birth Evolving
Discover new ways that women are giving birth! Learn new definitions and distinctions that explain and define a new paradigms of childbirth!
BONUS Module
The Psychology of Natural Birthing
The Psychology of Natural Birthing
Embracing a positive mindset for natural birthing!
Birthing Naturally in the Face of Doubt
Responding to the critism, when our friends, families and caregivers
challenge our intention to birth naturally.
Do they Want to Hear Our Good Birth Stories?
It is commonplace to hear birth horror stories,
but are we listening and learning from the stories of ecstatic and beautiful births?
The Birth Wound
Are we unwittingly perpetuating a great cycle of misunderstanding and fear in birth?
The Significance of Childbirth
It is not enough to “prepare for the worst and hope for the best”.
Detachment vs. Non-Attachment
The truth is women at times experience feelings of futility and detachment about their births.
What more can we ask of ourselves, than to do our best?
Claiming Your Self Empowerment
Choice is power and exercising your FREEDOM to choose, is what will empower you!
Module 2
Birth Mythology
In this second Module, we explore the frontiers of Symbolic Anthropology, in order to make us conscious of the disempowering messages of the birth rituals of our culture. By intellectually deconstructing the symbols, we bring unconscious messages into our consciousness to be dismantled, making room for beliefs that can empower us. We delve into, and question the assumed necessities of the prenatal care rituals of our culture, and finally explore Ultrasound- The Ultimate Pregnancy Ritual.
Symbolic Anthropology
Learn why disempowering messages can be unconsiously impacting women in labour!
Hospital Birth- A Ritual Perspective
Uncovering the Hidden Impact of Hospital Rituals
Birth Mythology
Deconstructing Childbirth Myths
Ritual of Ultrasound
Is Ultrasound a Sound Practice or Simply a Birth Ritual
Rethinking Ultrasound
Looking at Ultrasound in Depth
Module 3
Demystifying Pain In Birth
While pain may be a common occurance in childbirth, it doesn't have to be! Learn why there is little physiological explanation for why women experience so much pain in the uterus during contractions. In this third module, we offer a unique perspective on pain that is not pain with a purpose, hypnosis or the pain coping mindset, but rather "The Yoga of Childbirth" . Learn to dinstinguish pain from suffering and how to open to the possibility of ecstatic birth!
Getting Off the Fear-Tension-Pain Cycle
Letting go of all Expectation
Neurophysiology
Discover the Physiology of Stress
and why it inhibits the easy and natural interplay of birth
Brain Waves and Birth
Learning to Navigate the Altered State, as Preparation for Birth
Ecstatic Birth
Hormonal Blueprint of Labour
Undisturbed Birth
Creating a Birthing Environment that Supports Ecstatic Birth
The Yoga of Childbirth
Following the Pain and practices for staying Open to the Flow of Labour
Moving From Mind to Awareness
Module 4:
Anatomy and Physiology
Here in Module 4, we explore the Hormonal Blueprint of Labour and discover that we truly were meant to birth ecstatically! We discover incredible facts about how amazing our birthing anatomy truly is. This module offers an insightful and exciting exploration into the complexity of the birthing woman's anatomy and physiology, substantiating a new paradigm in womens' capabilities and potential in childbirth! This is not your "run of the mill" anatomy and physiology lecture! We make practical points, with tangible examples so that you can easly understand and remember how beautifully suited you are to give birth!
Sphincters
What Secrets do Sphincters tell us about
the ideal external conditions for birthing?
Accordian Yoni
Discovering your capacity to
open and expand in the birth process!
Birthing Upright!
Discover the benefits of giving birth with gravity!
Preventing Tearing in Childbirth
Learn how to prevent tearing
and episiotomy in birth!
Hormonal Blueprint of Labour
Let us take you on a discovery of how your hormonal system
prepares you for motherhood and, is your ally in
birthing instinctively, with ease and without complication!
Physiological Birthing
Fetal Ejection Reflex-Find out why you don't have to push to give birth!
Module 5:
Labour and Birth
In module 5, you will learn the essentials of labour and birth. We tell you what few others will, in terms of what you can realistically expect in your chosen birth environment. We caution you of the some of the typical dilemnas that first time parents fall into, and remind you how not to "go there" in the first place!!! We teach you how to navigate the typical birth interventions, while staying Present, Open and In Your Power!
The Myth of the EDD
Discover the uniqueness of the length of gestation
and a more accurate way to predict your estimated due date!
The Stages and Phases of Labour
Recognizing the external Signs of labour, Preventing Long Labours and
Dispelling distractions such as timing your contractions!
Labour Project
Bring the comfort of home with you wherever you give birth!
Knowing when to Call your Midwife
or to go to the hospital!
Birth Plan
Allowing your birth intentions to evolve
and creating consensus with your caregivers.
Interventions
Discover the typical birth interventions at home and in the hospital
and how to navigate them.
Module: 6
After the Birth
Don't forget, you still have to birth the placenta! Let us take you on a journey of the postpartum! Many women, pregnant for the first time, don't actually get to the part of imagining or preparing for the immediate post partum- undoubtedly a time with significance beyond measure! In module 6 , we will show you what you need to know, to protect your baby's comfort, health and bonding experience. We share uncommon wisdom such as how to prevent excessive postpartum bleeding, how to protect 1/3 of your baby's blood supply and how to ensure you get your oxytocin peak (the hormonal counterpart to an optimally loving bonding experience with your new baby)!!!!
Pre and Perinatal Psychology
Discover why preventing and healing birth trauma is not only important in order to protect newborns from unnecessary harm, but to also ensure a healthy mentality in many generations to come.
Routine Care of the Newborn
Protecting Your Baby from Unintended Harm.
Delayed Cord Cutting
Deconstructing the Medical Mythology!
The First Hour After Birth
Discover the impact that privacy after birth has to prevent excessive bleeding and to promote optimum bonding!
Back to the Basics with Breastfeeding
Find out why breastfeeding becomes complicated
and how to support your newborns instinct to breastfeed.
Creating a Peaceful Postpartum
While nothing can prepare you for motherhood,
the postpartum can be a peaceful and rejuvenating sojourn.
The Sacredness of Being Born
Embracing the sacred and honouring the birth of new life!
Syllabus Mind/Body
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Module 1: Benefits of Birthing Naturally
Bonus Module: Childbirth Herstory
Module 2: Birth Mythology
NEW! Fear Releasing and Birthing Intentions Workbook to Unearth and Transform your Fear into Excitement!
Bonus Module: Psychology of Natural Birthing
Module 3: Demystifying Pain in Birth
Module 4: Anatomy and Physiology
Module 5: Labour and Birth
Module 6: After the Birth
BONUS: Nurturing the New Family!
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BONUS MODULE!
Benefits of Birthing Naturally!
Benefits of Natural Birth
Discover why birth has significance way beyond being a "process"
that women have to go through to have a baby!
Defining Natural and Instinctive Birth
Discovering greater freedom in natural and instinctive birth!
The Impact of Birth on Baby’s Health
Learn why the way we birth our babies impacts the foundation of their short and long term health.
Birth Impacts Mother’s Health
Discover why the experience of birth impacts a woman's short and long term health!
Becoming Aware & Informed about Routine Care of the Newborn NOW!
Most parents feel ill prepared to witness or protect their baby from routine newborn interventions.
Learn about them NOW so that you can avoid them altogether or navigate them with confidence!
The IMPACT of Birth on Life?
Discover why how we are birthed, can set the tone for our lives
and life on earth!
The IMPACT of Birth on a Woman’s Future Experience of Mothering
Does having experts to manage our birth experience, set us up-
do we need the experts to tell us how to mother too?
The Vision Quest
That's right! Birth can be a soulful journey and woman's visionquest!
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