Your Empowered Postpartum
Preparing for the weeks after birth is just as important as preparing for the birth itself. In our course geared solely towards understanding and embracing the time after birth, you will gain clarity on the physical and emotional aspects of the postpartum as well as suggestions for making the time as peaceful, restful, and positive as possible. Our Empowered Postpartum course begins with a look at the immediate postpartum and takes you through the first few hours, days, and weeks after vaginal birth and cesarean birth. With an emphasis on supporting the body as it heals and supporting the emotions as they shift, we explore nourishment, movement, pelvic floor health, family and community support, identity shifts, and bonding with your little one. Join us in preparing for a confident, healthy, and empowering postpartum!
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!
Course Curriculum
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StartPostpartum Wellness (15:59)
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StartSupporting a Healthy Postpartum
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StartAffirmations for an Empowered Postpartum
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StartPhysical Well-Being in the First Six Weeks (62:43)
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StartCaring for Perineal Tears
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StartCesarean Scar Massage (13:30)
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StartPostpartum Nourishment and Movement (9:58)
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StartEmbracing Postpartum Shifts (4:46)
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StartPelvic Floor Health in the Postpartum
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StartWriting/Drawing Exercise