TO REGISTER:
Please email me at tamaratiana@gmail.com with your name, your partner’s name and your due date. Payment is required to hold your spot. We accept e-transfer or Pay Pal payments.

TOPICS COVERED:

Beyond the Phases of Labour: An exploration of labour beyond the medical idea of “stages of labour”
Benefits of Continuous Support in Labour
The Purpose of Pain in Labour
Pain Coping, Breath Awareness, Mindset
The Purpose of Fear in Labour
How to Trust Your Body
Advocacy and Informed Consent
Postpartum and the Art of BEing
Creating Your Community
Cognitive Distortions and Postpartum Mental Health
Self Care, Boundaries and Continuing to Trust Yourself
Infant & Family Sleep
The Art of Nurtured, Responsive Parenting

Arva and Tamara are experienced doulas offering a different kind of birth preparation experience. One where you learn what ACTUALLY helps you while you are in labour. Expect Birthing From Within activities, exploration of beliefs, experiential preparation, meditation and breath awareness and lots of really good information.

BONUS: Guest teacher for class 2. Our friend and pregnancy mentor, Briana, will share her personal story about embodiment and birthing and how they are related.

COURSE OUTLINE

Class One: Beyond the Stages of Labour 

Looking at your childbearing year and birth as more than a physical event, we use the archetype of myth to understand birth on an emotional, mental and spiritual level.

Beyond The Stages of Labour – learn about the emotional and psycho-spiritual phases of labour, what to expect and how to thrive.

The Hormones of Labour – learn about this delicate dance and how to best support each phase of labour so your hormones can do what they are meant to do – increase bliss and reduce pain!

Beliefs about Birth – we each form beliefs about birth from a very young age. Learn how these beliefs can wreak havoc on your birth plan.

Time will be spent bringing your beliefs to your conscious awareness so they don’t end up holding you back from having the birth of your dreams.

Class Two: Labour and Delivery – Coping Well by Trusting Yourself

Pain – learn pain coping tools and the purpose of pain in labour so the process doesn’t scare you.

Fear – learn more about the purpose of fear in labour and how to trust your instincts or make a decision when you feel afraid. We will talk about how to honour your fear and move into trust.

Continuous Unwavering Support – learn how having someone there who trusts birth leads to better outcomes. This person can be your partner, a friend, or a doula. Whoever they are, they better trust the process.

Trust Yourself – how do you trust yourself in labour?

GUEST SPEAKER!!! We are very excited to have a guest speaker for class two. Briana  of hohmcoming will talk about her pregnancy and birth experience and how she used her pregnancy to become truly embodied and was able to trust herself on a whole new level in labour and delivery.

Class Three: Postpartum – A New Way of BEing

Postpartum as Hero’s Journey – using the archetype of myth  from class one to learn more about what to expect and how to thrive in your postpartum journey.

The Art of Doing Nothing – the power move of rebelling against cultural beliefs about rest. We will be working on how to mentally prepare for this extremely potent way of BEing. 

Self Care – mental health, emotional intelligence, and the actual tools that keep you well. 

Community – we were not meant to do it alone, and yet most of us end up burning ourselves out because of deeply ingrained beliefs about independence and asking for help. We work on how you can start in pregnancy to create a community of angels and helpers to make the first year postpartum less isolated.

Trusting yourself as a parent – working more with distinguishing fear from intuitive knowledge and how to set loving boundaries.

Class Four: The Art of Nurtured Infant (and family) Sleep

This is NOT a sleep training module. We do not practice or teach sleep training in any capacity. This class is based on the neuroscience of infant brain development, how nurtured and responsive parenting supports infant brain development, and how to navigate sleep with a newborn (and beyond).

Beliefs about Infant Sleep – excavating some of your beliefs about infants and their care day and night.

Healthy expectations for Infant Sleep – learn more about normal infant sleep, circadian rhythm, the myth of self soothing, and red flags to watch for.

How nurtured and responsive infant care, day and night, lead to optimal brain development and eventually better sleep.

Safe Infant Sleep environments – all the technical stuff.

Sleepy Time Routines – when and how to set up some sweet routines for you and baby to build positive sleep associations.

Staying regulated – as a care provider self regulation is everything. Learn why and some really amazing tools to keep your nervous system thriving.

Cognitive Distortions – understanding your mental health and how to choose your thoughts wisely.

*Please note that subjects may change without notice depending on time restraints

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