The Confident Birth Blueprint

1. Welcome and instruction video
2. Community Link!
3. Your Guide Book - to enhance your abor, birth and parenthood journey through embodiment and connection practices
4. My Favorite Birth Playlist
1. Workbook Chapter - Birth as a Rite of Passage
2. Birth as a Rite of Passage
3. Daily Pregnancy Stretches
4. Prenatal Yoga Flow
5. Brilliant Pregnancy Hormones - How your body is working to prepare for labor during pregnancy
6. Brilliant Female Anatomy - How the body works together to get baby earthside
7. Baby positions and balancing your body part 1
8. Body balancing part 2
9. How to Belly Sift
10. Forward Leaning Inversion
1. EARLY LABOR - part 1
2. EARLY LABOR - part 2 - Amanda Hospital Birth Story
3. How to keep labor progressing - What to do if labor begins in morning, afternoon or night
4. Partners and early labor - prodromal labor tips
5. What if your water breaks ?
6. Birth Video of Max - home birth
7. Transition
8. Brilliant Birth Hormones & Active Labor
9. Early labor - part 2 How long will labor be ? Amanda Hospital birth Story
1. Instructions
2. Laboring Positions and Comfort Guide Book
3. More laboring positions with and without an epidural
4. When you need to rest/sleep comfort measures
5. Standing and all fours - using birth ball & the bed
6. Peanut Ball
7. Back Massage
8. Hand Massage
9. Pressure point for pain relief
10. Double hip squeeze all fours - with ball
11. Sacrum Press - all fours with ball
12. Sacrum and Lower Back Press - on toilet
13. Knee Press on Toilet
14. Double Hip Squeeze in the Bath / Birth Pool with 2 people
15. Shoulder Press - in bath/birth pool
16. Knee Press in Bath
17. Sacrum Press - in bath/birth pool
18. How to suggest a position change
1. Workbook Chapter - Dream Birth pages
2. Crowning/ Molding and Tearing
3. Home birth story of Gus - Listen to how her midwife reminds mom to pant through baby crowning
4. Instinctual pushing - Kalli birth story
5. Preparing for pushing - the mind and body
6. Pushing Positions without an Epidural and the Fetal Ejection Reflex (FER)
7. Pushing with an Epidural
8. Epidural Birth Videos
9. Partners and Pushing
1. Cord around baby's neck and Delayed Cord Clamping
2. Why its important to not cut the umbilical cord too early - Penny Simkin video
1. Birth of the placenta
1. The Alpha Brain
2. Theta and Delta - GOLD
3. Activating mindfulness - THROUGH THE BODY
4. Activating mindfulness - THROUGH THE BREATH
5. Activating Mindfulness - THROUGH THE MIND part 1
6. Activating Mindfulness - THROUGH THE MIND part 2
7. cultivating mindfulness work book chapter
1. Ice contraction practice part one
2. Ice contraction part 2 - Helping each other cope
1. Building trust and fear release - for both parents
2. Making your labyrinth
3. Labyrinth reflection questions - highly recommend to do after you trace your labyrinth
4. Mind and Body Connection Workbook Chapter
1. How partners can hold the space for mom
1. Dream Birth Scenario Visualization
2. Induction Options
3. Creating your ideal Environment
4. Pain Relief Options
5. Giving Birth and Placenta Options
6. Building Communication with Provider
7. In Case of Cesarean
8. Newborn Care Options
9. Hospital Birth Packing List
10. Birth Plan Template
1. Postpartum
2. Relationship Exercise
1. Podcast Episodes - You'll want to take notes on these!
2. Attaching baby at the breast Videos
3. The breast crawl video !
4. Hunger cues
5. Position and latch
6. Premature babies and breastfeeding
1. Momma Care for after birth healing
2. 5 things you can do for optimal postpartum healing
3. 5 things to focus on for optimal healing in the 4th trimester
1. Article on dressing baby for sleep depending on the temperature
2. Baby Language
3. Video on Dunstan baby language
4. baby sleep
5. burping baby
6. How to tell if baby is too hot or too cold
7. How to do baby massage
8. Diaper changes
9. Ways to burp
1. Recommended Reading List and Podcasts
2. Vitamin K - Signature Article (2019)
3. PitocinHandout-210714-180041
4. Eating Drinking in labor
5. Fetal Monitoring
6. IV Fluids
7. Eye Ointment
8. Circumcision
9. Gestational Diabetes

About this course

106 lessons
11.5 hours of video content

The Confident Birth Blueprint

Course curriculum

Welcome! * Start here *

Birth Foundations - laying the groundwork for your mind and body

Stage 1 - Early , Active & Transition

Laboring Positions and Comfort Measures - Practice

Stage 2 - Pushing & Giving Birth

Umbilical Cords

Stage 3 - Placenta Birth

Cultivating Mindfulness - The biggest tip for birth and parenthood

Ice Contractions - This is a fun one!

Fears - releasing and creating a more powerful experience

How Partners Can Hold The Space

Creating Your Birth Intentions - Putting your plan together

The shift into parenthood - building your postpartum sanctuary together * IMPORTANT! *

Breastfeeding

Momma Care

Newborn Care

Resources

About this course

Start your journey to confident birthing!