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Natural Birth Curriculum

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Complete Prenatal Workbook and Slides for Birth Class

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Printable Workbook + FULL Teaching Slide Deck

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Here’s a full birth class curriculum! Print the workbook as many times as you like, forever.

Use the slides to teach online or in-person.

Lifetime Use for Only $549 $329

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What's Included?

70+ page Workbook PDF and Weekend Class Workbook PDF; Access to the 122-Slide Teaching Deck 

The workbook includes the following:
  • The 7 reasons modern couples need birth education
  • Why Birth and birth experience Matters to you and society
  • Types of 21st century birth; birth place and planning options
  • Dealing with pressure from others to plan a certain kind of birth
  • Informed Consent: what it looks like
  • Your Rights in Childbirth
  • Healthy Pregnancy Checklist & Habit support
  • Anatomy of Pregnancy
  • Optimal Positioning for Baby: Posture, exercise, and resting positions for easier birth
  • The 3 things you can control about your birth
  • Choosing the Right provider; questions to ask them and yourself
  • Midwifery and Medical Models: how they differ and how they’re the same
  • Epidural: what it is, what it does, and why people do or don’t want them
  • Pain tolerance and attitude scales
  • Medical Tools for Birth: what they are, who needs them
  • Hormones and Physiological Tools for birth
  • Feeling Safe and the Autonomic Nervous System in Labor
  • Healthy Stress: Handling Labor and the Fear-Tension-Pain Cycle
  • Doulas and Other Important Helpers: benefits
  • What’s Late? Calming Due Date Fervor
  • Induction: Good reasons, silly reasons, risks, methods
  • The feelings of labor
  • Stages of Labor and what to do and expect at each
  • Partner-Specific Stages of Labor: What you might think, what you can do, main goals for each
  • Ways Labor Progress is Made: rotation, dilation, descension, effacement, letting go
  • How to Relax: The science of brain waves and the neocortex
  • Birth Skills: Sex, Flow, and Personal Power
  • 30 Skills to try and practice
  • 9 Labor positions and their benefits
  • Writing Your own Affirmations
  • Birth Plans & Decision-Making
  • Pushing Positions and Tips
  • 7 Evidence-Based Ways to Prevent Tearing
  • Plot Twists & Labor Surprises
  • Cesarean Birth: Prevention and Step By Step Experience Guide
  • The Immediate Postpartum: What’s happening
  • What You can do with your placenta
  • All The Common Newborn Procedures: Research-cited pros and cons
  • Planning for Postpartum
  • Priorities in the first 3 months for each of you
  • Feelings and Adjustments common to PP
  • Avoiding relationship pitfalls
  • Physical Recovery Notes & Suggestions
  • Caring for a Crying Baby
  • Baby Care Ideas
  • Breastfeeding Benefits & Tips

You get forever access to:

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Comprehensive 70-page printable workbook & shorter abridged workbook
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122-Slide Teaching Deck for Online & In-Person Birth Classes
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Get the Sibling Prep Packet FREE!

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