Preparing for Your Positive Birth
A free 45-min workshop to create a game plan for your positive birth preparation…
“It got me and my birth partner really thinking about labour and how we want to cope”
What does the ‘Preparing for Your Positive Birth’ workshop cover?
Will I tell you what to do to get the ‘perfect’ birth?
Ummm, no.
Can I guarantee a totally pain-free, joy-filled birth?
Sadly not.
Am I going to give you the tools that’ll help you to feel calm, confident and in control of your own birth?
Absolutely.
As a doula, I live - sleep - breathe birth.
Seeing it, hearing it and supporting it day-in, day-out has taught me what really works (and what absolutely doesn’t) when it comes to getting the positive birth experience you naturally want and absolutely deserve.
BUT I also know that positive birth experiences come in all shapes and sizes: home or hospital, water or land, medicated or drug-free. Every birth has the potential to be an entirely positive experience.
IF you’ve done the groundwork.
IF you’ve got the knowledge you need.
IF you’ve got the confidence to use the skills you have.
But where do you even start finding all of that?
Here. In this workshop.
Giving you the starting point for all of that is EXACTLY what this FREE online workshop exists to do.
How will the ‘Preparing for Your Positive Birth’ workshop help me?
You’ll leave our 45-minute online workshop with more than just a pretty handout.
You’ll have a gameplan.
There are five elements that have the power to dictate how a birth goes: get them right, and things will be as peachy as possible. This is where our time together starts.
Our workshop starts here.
I’ll walk you through each of these five core elements, exploring the ways they can influence birth (both positively and negatively) and then giving you the reflective space to consider how this relates to you and your situation.
The result?
A totally personalised, step-by-step gameplan that’ll move you closer to the positive birth that you want and deserve.
The information and insight you need for you birth in Cornwall…
‘Preparing for Your Positive Birth’: FAQ
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
Book your space: ‘Preparing for Your Positive Birth’
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