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Your Empowered Birth
The Building Blocks to a Healthy Birth
Basic Info Form and Responsibility Acknowledgment
Introductory Video (6:00)
Welcome Packet and Building Community
Choosing Your Clinical Support
Writing Activity: Developing Your Birth Priorities and Creating an Effective Birth Plan
Nourishment and Movement in Pregnancy (1:41)
Anatomy, the Uterus, and the Cervix (40:43)
Up To Date Research on COVID-19 and the Childbearing Year
Wrap Up with a Birth Video: Noah's Gentle Birth
Important Reminders!
Using Your Voice and Preparing for Labor
Relaxation Exercise: Tension Release
Moving Past Fear and Anxiety
Understanding Pelvic Dynamics and Your Baby's Positioning in Pregnancy and Labor (21:09)
Active Involvement in Labor and Birth Decision-Making
Induction and Common Medical Interventions
Choosing Your Non-Clinical Labor Support
COVID-19 and Labor Support
Labor Overview (12:58)
Important Reminders!
This is Your Birth
Relaxation Exercise: Directed Breath
Labor Tools (6:00)
Cesarean Birth (28:12)
Blossoming Bellies 5/4/3 Rule (5:29)
Labor's First Stage: Early Phase (18:49)
Affirmations
Labor's First Stage: Active Phase (30:17)
Labor's First Stage: Transition Phase (22:32)
Labor's Second Stage: Resting and Pushing (101:17)
Labor's Third Stage (17:29)
Special Considerations During COVID-19 Restrictions
Wrap Up with a Birth Video: Birth Day
Important Reminders!
Comfort in Vaginal and Cesarean Birth
Understanding Perspective and Its Role in Labor Comfort (4:37)
Comfort in Active Labor and Beyond (5:46)
Comfort in the Second Stage (1:45)
Labor and Birth 101: Keeping the Perineum Intact
Birth Video: Everyday Miracles
Comfort in Cesarean Birth
Revisiting Your Birth Preferences
Effectively Using Birth Plans
Important Reminders!
Welcoming Your Postpartum
Planning for a Healthy Postpartum
Immediate Postpartum
Postpartum After Cesarean (13:37)
COVID-19 and Parent/Infant Separation
Newborn Procedures
Extended Postpartum (4:51)
Infant Care Overview
Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding 101 (5:31)
COVID-19 and Lactation
Visualizing Your Birth and Postpartum
Thank You! and End of Course Survey
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