revolutionary childbirth education based on birth physiology
If you are anxious about the uncertainty of giving birth, unsure on how to take ownership of your labor, and wanting to have a great birth experience,
When birth unfolds on its own, there's less need for interventions (and if you need them, you'll still help birth flow!)
You'll know exactly how to work WITH your body to be more confident and easily dive into "laborland."
You, your baby, and your whole birth team will have a healthier and more satisfying experience!
That’s exactly what we cover in this series.
The course is structured around 3 weeks of learning, with a mix of video recordings and pre-recorded class discussions. You’ll also receive handouts and printable resources
Learning topics for this week include:
How do you want to feel during birth?
Considering your pain medication preferences
Birth physiology vs. birth medicine
Using thinking-brain skills to learn the primal-skills of birth
Building trust in your body
Knowing the medical language
The intertwined physical, chemical, mental and emotional aspects of birth
How to support each aspect during pregnancy
How to support each aspect during labor
Your questions!
Learning topics for this week include:
Getting clarity on the protocols and expectations from your place of birth and care providers
Creating a birth plan that people will read
How do you know if labor is flowing?
Troubleshooting if it isn’t
Labor time and labor land
PAIN: the elephant in the room
Are you in labor?
Textbook, prodromal, posterior, and precipitous labors
When to call your provider and doula
When to go to the hospital or birth center (if you are going there)
What to expect at the hospital or birth center
Your questions!
We'll switch it up with a webinar-style "Ask Me Anything"
Learning topics for this week include:
5 pivotal moments that can derail physiology, and how to approach them
Physiology during inductions
Physiology during epidurals
Physiology during cesareans
The stages of birth from a physiological perspective
Pushing and the Fetal Ejection Reflex
The golden hour
Your questions!
Your class instructor
Perinatal Educator, Advanced Doula (DONA), Birthful podcast creator & host
I’m Adriana Lozada, birth doula, birth and postpartum educator, international speaker and host of the acclaimed Birthful podcast.
Since 2007, I’ve helped my birth doula clients take the reigns of their process and own their births to have more satisfying birth experiences. These experiences have run the gamut from unmedicated home births to planned cesarean births, and everything in between.
The preparation we do during our prenatal meetings is so impactful, that there have even been times where birth has switched gears and flowed too quickly for me to make it to the hospital in time. These clients still tell me they “couldn’t have done it without me,” meaning, they couldn’t have done it without all this simple yet powerful preparation.
I use the term “simple” because we don’t spend months getting ready. In fact, I only met twice with my doula clients, for a total of 3 hours.
This Birth Prep Series is based on exactly what I do with my doula clients during our prenatal meetings, plus a few more expanded concepts for good measure.
Overall we found the course to be extremely insightful.
We liked your non judgmental and openness on how to approach labour, and loved your style of teaching.
I learned a lot of helpful things during this course that weren’t covered in the 2 other courses that I have taken. I chose this class because of the focus on supporting physiology.
Both my husband and I felt so much more prepared and educated after taking this course. It was even more helpful than I thought it was going to be.
We’ve been taught that due dates, time between contractions, and dilation are important things to keep an eye out.
But you know who doesn’t care one bit? Your body.
Because your body does physiology, not medicine.
Think about it.
Do you care about the timing between your breaths, or how many times you blink per hour, or how far your food has traveled through your digestive system since you last ate?
Physiology happens. Your body doesn’t need to observe and calculate, it just does it.
But I get that you may not trust your body, or feel uncertain about if you'll be able to do it.
By focusing on supporting your physiology through the activities presented in this course, and by addressing any possible obstacles now–during pregnancy, so they don’t show up during birth–you’ll have absolute clarity on how to get labor to flow!
And birth isn’t something that happens to you.
You are -and should be- an active participant in bringing your child into the world.
In fact, when birthing people are directed, instead of supported and respected, their birthing process is interrupted. That is where uncertainty and even trauma can set in.
You may not be able to control all the details and circumstances of your experience, but you can control how you show up.
Birth is a process that happens inside you. By supporting physiology, you can take the lead.
You can own your birth.
I’m not exaggerating.
At no other time will your body and identity undergo a similar transformation.
I want you to come out the other side feeling confident and powerful, because how you birth tends to set the tone for how you parent.
Most other classes focus on explaining the medical model of birth, give you tools to navigate the maternity system, provide coping mechanisms to endure the process, and explain comfort measures to alleviate the intensity. And that’s fine, but it perpetuates our cultural approach of birth as a medical event.
That’s why this class is so revolutionary.
It will give you the tools to lead your birth and own this transformative experience.
With confidence.
With power.
Even if you need interventions.
Even if you have a cesarean birth.
Regardless of the circumstances, you can have a powerfully satisfying, easier and more flowing birth.
That’s what this course is about.
This will help you get clarity on your birth preferences
Includes sample templates that won’t cause eye rolls from hospital staff
Help your partner learn how to best support you!
Takes the guesswork and overwhelm out of providing helpful labor support, to increase confidence and help the birth partner participate at their own comfort level.
34-page PDF file + audio files (to match your learning style)
Plus corresponding cheat sheet
Birth Bag Checklist
Items to Get From Your Nurse Checklist
Labor Positions Cheat Sheet
Advocacy and Decision Making Worksheet
“Head-To-Toe Relaxation” audio file
List of recommended Birthful podcast episodes for a deeper dive
List of recommended books to expand your learning
Have a different question? Email us!
No worries, we will record the classes, and the replay will be available to registered students shortly after it happens.
You can watch it at your convenience, but ideally, that would be within that week, so you don’t fall too far behind
We recommend you start the class as soon as you are able, as the more time you have to practice the exercises and activities the better prepared you will be. However, even if you are 36 weeks pregnant you will greatly benefit from the class!
Give yourself as much wiggle-room as you can so you are able to soak in the information (and have gone through the class if your baby decides to make an early entrance).
Not at all!
We will also cover ways you can support your physiology with an epidural, or in case of an induction.
If you have a cesarean birth, we will also cover ways to support physiology and bonding between you and your baby as soon as you are able, starting in the recovery room.
Once you sign up for the course, you get life-time access (or at least for as long as the program exists... we don't have any intentions of taking it down, but we can't predict all futures!) If we update it, you will still get access to the new material.
You can go back and re-watch the materials as many times as you want. You can also use this course after future pregnancies.
You and your immediate family members caring closely for your baby can watch the materials (think partners, grandparents or aunties) but you may not share your log-in info with other pregnant friends or professional caregivers. This program is intended for your personal use only.
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