Faith-based Natural Birth Class online

In this module, you will begin to name and identify your hopes and fears with birth. Through these lessons, take time to write out your story, discuss hopes and fears with each other, and see the power birth stories.

Lesson 1 - What is Your Story?

Lesson 2 - Understanding Physiological Birth

Lesson 3 - Observe and Learn

In this module, I will go over all the differences of the types of providers and birth locations. Because your birth team can be bigger than just your doctor, I will also show you who you can have to have a better birth experience! I know this can feel like a lot of decisions you have to make, and because decision-making is hard, we will go over an easy way to make decisions and feel good about them!

Lesson 1 - Providers and support team

Lesson 2 - Birth location

Lesson 3 - Decision Making

In this module, you will learn all about pregnancy. You’ve already come so far through, but its helpful to know all the changes that are happening in your and ways you can be taking care of it!

Lesson 1 - Conception, Trimester 1 and Trimester 2

Lesson 2 - Trimester 3

Lesson 3 - Nutrition in Pregnancy

Lesson 4 - Fitness in Pregnancy

As you get closer to you due date, you may be feeling different and having different signs of labor. As you approach your due date, there are thing you can do to start preparing your body for this amazing marathon you are about to run. In this module, you will learn about your body and how to tell what is labor.

Lesson 1 - Your Anatomy

Lesson 2 - True Labor vs False Labor

Lesson 3 - Stages of Labor

Lesson 4 - Cervical Checks, Mucus Plugs, and Water breaking

Preparing mentally is just not, if not more, important than preparing your body. Our body and spirit are beautifully interwoven and in labor we see that so clearly. We will talk about how to let go of fears and relax so that labor can progress more smoothly.

Lesson 1 - How Fear Impacts Labor

Lesson 2 - Building and Oxytcin Cave

Lesson 3 - Getting rid of fear

Lesson 4 - Affirmations

Everyone’s birth experiences are different, but it is so important to know your pain relief options. Even if you are planning an unmediated birth, I want you to know your hospital options, and even if you are planning to birth with an epidural, I want you to know your natural pain relief options too. The goal doesn’t necessarily have to be a pain free birth, but I want you to have tools that allow you to surrender, relax, and not feel overwhelmed by the discomfort.

Lesson 1 - Purpose of Contractions

Lesson 2 - Natural Pain Relief Options

Lesson 3 - Medical Pain Relief Options

Now this is what most people think of a birth class: “Tell me what will happen in labor,” but what we already covered is so important! Labor can be an intense time, and everyone experiences it differently. The key to easier labor is to relax and totally surrender to the process; that is why we had to cover everything else first. But now we get to talk about the actual birth! In this module, we will cover all the stages of labor, what will happen, and what you can expect. Remember, birth is so nuanced and every labor is different, but what I will teach here are pretty common general things to expect.

Lesson 1 - Early Labor

Lesson 2 - Active Labor

Lesson 3 - Transition Labor

Lesson 4 - Pushing

Lesson 5 - Birthing the Placenta

This is knowledge that many birth classes skip over because they don’t want to make you afraid, but I believe knowledge is power. I want you to know your options, to know what is happening, and to be an active participant in your birth. Even if birth goes a different route than planned (for example if you are planning a homebirth, but medically need to be induced), you can still have a positive experience!

Lesson 1 - Inductions

Lesson 2 - Delivery Interventions

Lesson 3 - C-section Births, with Gloria Lapp

Lesson 4 - NICU

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Lesson 1 - Cramping and Bleeding

Lesson 2 - First feed and sleep

Lesson 3 - Skin-to-skin

Believe it or not, you are considered “postpartum” for the first 12 months. However, you are often cleared at your 6 week appointment to go back to normal things. I think it is important to remove the stigma to “bounce back” and to give yourself a lot of grace. Postpartum can be a difficult season, so these tools can help this period to me smoother and more enjoyable.

Lesson 1 - Resting

Lesson 2 - When to seek help

Lesson 3 - Nutrition

Sometimes parents feel like, “I cannot believe they just sent me home from the hospital, trusting me to take care of this baby.” It can feel like a huge responsibility! But believe me when I say that your intuition will kick in, and you will do amazing! My main goal with this is to give you some practical tips for taking care of your newborn.

Lesson 1 - Breastfeeding

Lesson 2 - Infant care: sleep and baths

Action Septs: Making Your Plan of how to actually put everything together

Lesson 1 - Writing your Birth Plan

Lesson 2 - Communication: with your partner, provider, and family & friends

Lesson 3 - Checklists: hospital bag, home birth, and postpartum checklists