Supporting Clients Through Cesarean Birth
This two hour continuing education training for doulas provides an in-depth understanding of what doula support looks like through prenatal care, birthing support, and the postpartum journey for clients giving birth by cesarean.
Far too often, doula support seems geared exclusively towards those having a vaginal birth. This concept really misses the mark when it comes to the amazing benefits doulas can offer in all birth scenarios. Many doula trainings, however, do not offer much guidance in how to provide the necessary support to clients birthing by cesarean and this can leave doulas feeling anxious and unprepared to support belly births.
With this course, doulas will explore in-depth how to support clients in preparing for a confident and empowered cesarean process while also developing ideas, skills, and techniques for providing high-quality individualized support that leaves clients feeling educated, nurtured, and supported.
2 CEs through ICEA have been approved
In this two hour recorded workshop, we will:
Develop key talking points for exploring cesarean birth in prenatal visits
Explore ways to educate the client’s support team through labor and cesarean birth
Illustrate the role of doula support through planned and unplanned cesarean birth
Identify the immediate postpartum support needs for cesarean birth families
Summarize the extended postpartum support needs for cesarean birth families
Prepare additional resources for birth story processing
Your Instructor
Brittany Sharpe McCollum, CCE(BWI), CPLD, CLC is a Perinatal Pelvic Biomechanics Educator and the owner of Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services based out of the greater Philadelphia PA area, providing childbirth education classes, birth doula services, and dynamic labor support and pelvic biomechanics training workshops for perinatal professionals and expectant parents. She has offered birth-related support for expectant parents since 2007 with an approach focusing on developing advocacy skills for effective communication, utilizing movement in all labors to support progress, and understanding the importance of an individualized person-centered approach to childbirth.
Brittany also creates and facilitates continuing education workshops for clinical and non-clinical labor support providers on evidence-based fetal positioning, pelvic biomechanics, and labor physiology and is honored to be a sought after speaker at trainings and conferences, including the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association Summit in 2018, Evidence Based Birth Conference in 2019, NNEPQIN Winter 2022, the ACNM Midwifery Day conference, the New Jersey Midwifery Education Project, Somos Raices: Maternal and Child Well-Being Conference, and more. She is also a contributing author to the book “Baby Got VBAC: An Inspiring Collection of Wisdom for Better Births After Cesarean,” the creator of the anatomy and reproductive structure curriculum of the ICEA childbirth educator training, and the facilitator of pelvic biomechanics and labor positioning training of the labor and delivery staff orientation for Vermont Medical Center in Burlington VT.
Brittany's goal in all the work she does is to provide families and professionals with evidence based information in a way that inspires excitement, confidence, and collaboration. She believes firmly that all deserve to come out of birth recognizing that they did something amazing and having the support to make that a reality!