Preparing for Your Positive Birth

Panic not! This workshop will be recorded on Zoom and the link shared with everyone booked on.

This means that if you can’t make the exact time, or are running late, you’ll still get the information you’re after.

Not at all! Everyone and anyone preparing for birth can benefit from this workshop.

Whether this is your first or your fourth, if you haven’t worked with a doula before in any way, shape or form, you’re likely to learn something new!

The simple answer to this is that if you’ve felt curious enough to click this button, you’re ready!

Remember, this is a workshop that’s going to give you the tools to START prepping for birth. It’s not an antenatal class or a birth plan writing course; it’s the beginning of your path to getting ready.

So, if you’re feeling like you want to start to get ready for birth, it’s time to do this workshop.

No, but it is beneficial.

Experience has taught me that it’s always beneficial to do all aspects of birth preparation with the people you intend to go through it with. The conversations you have, the things you discuss, the priorities that show themselves: this is all key information to have in your birth team.

However, it’s also entirely possible that if you’re early in your pregnancy, you’re not sure who your birth partner(s) will be yet.

Or perhaps you do, but your timetables don’t match meaning you can’t both attend.

If that’s the case (or if there’s any other reason why a partner can’t attend), don’t let that stop you. Just take good notes and save them for discussion later!

Without knowing which course you have done, it’s hard for me to say. BUT as a guide, I’d say this:

• IF your course was delivered by a midwife and/or focused on mainstream birth (eg: the NCT course, or Happy Parent, Happy Baby), it’s likely that this workshop WILL give you something extra.

• IF your course was designed and delivered by a doula or other independent birthworker, it’s likely that a lot of the content we’re going to cover was touched on.

Absolutely, I am not a midwife but I am very much qualified for the job!

As a certified and practising birth & postpartum doula, and FEDANT registered antenatal educator, I have all the skills, insights and experience needed to give you what you need (and more!)

As a doula, my skill set is very different to that of a midwife. While they’re the experts in the clinical, my remit is the physiological, the emotional, the mental, the environmental and everything else in between.

This is what forms the basis of the workshop and is what sets this type of birth preparation apart from mainstream midwife-led courses.

Absolutely nothing!

The knowledge I am going to share during this workshop isn’t rocket science: it’s the knowledge that has been passed down through the generations for millennia… and then lost when our society moved us away from communal living. I don’t believe you should have to pay to rediscover what your great-grandmothers knew.

It’s free to attend and there’s no obligation to buy anything from me or sign up to anything afterwards.

‘Preparing for Your Positive Birth’ is an online workshop held via Zoom: when you book your place, you’ll receive the link & other details you need to access the session.

I’ll also send out reminders the day before.