Course content includes:
- Advanced physical, mental, emotional comfort measures
- Labor/birth positions
- Signs and stages of labor and what to do during each
- Communicating with healthcare providers
- Helping partners feel confident and knowledgeable
- Normal physiological birth education
- Birth terminology
- The brain’s involvement in pain processing
- Biology of fear and stress
- Power of language and priming
- Sports psychology techniques
- CBT tools
- Mindfulness
- Hypnosis
- Hacking birth hormones
- Avoiding birth trauma
- Pros and cons of common interventions and understanding medical necessity
- Sample birth plans
- Breastfeeding
- Newborn procedures
- Postpartum planning
- And so much more!!