GentleBirth Workshops
Description:
We will discuss how to have a more calm, confident, and positive pregnancy and birth, including mindfulness, hypnosis, sports psychology, comfort measures for birth and delivery, writing your birth preferences, navigating through the hospital system, fun, and interactive activities together, discussion, empowering discussions and interaction.
Also includes access to the Gentlebirth app and learning institute.
Availability:
Available online and in person.
Duration:
Delivered over 2 half days online
Or 1 full day in person
Advantages:
GentleBirth optimizes brain plasticity in pregnancy and the postpartum period
Daily use of the GentleBirth program rewires your brain for calm and confidence
Improve your emotional resilience and bounce back from stressful events faster
Reduce activity in the limbic part of the brain in labor to feel emotionally in control
Make informed decisions by increasing knowledge and giving you tools to navigate through the hospital.
Feel happier and more stable as you become more gentle with yourself
Build a buffer to stressful events in labor reducing potential birth trauma, build resilience for birth.
Evidence-Based care, giving you all the right information to make informed decisions for your pregnancy and birth.
Reduced Perineal Injury, tools that can help you to reduce the likelihood of perineal injury, including upright positioning for labor, perineal compresses.
Newborn Neuroscience, the importance of skin to skin for mum and dad, tools to help to initiate successful breastfeeding or discuss bottle feeding, infant feeding cues.
Pain Management, discuss pharmacological and nonpharmacological pain relief.
Upright Epidural, how to gain insight into the best tools for you.
Oxytocin Inhibitors and Facilitators, the role of oxytocin, and labor hormones.
Mother Centered Cesarean
VBAC birth following a previous cesarean section, giving you the right information to make informed decisions for you and your baby.