Freebirth Guide

We have sessions during your pregnancy to prepare you for freebirth. We also have sessions postpartum.

This offering means I'm not on-call for your birth nor on-call for you postpartum. 

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I guide women and families for out-of-system physiologic birth. This is radically different from any mainstream childbirth education program. 

-All of freebirth prep. is included for my birth attendance clients.

-If you switch to birth attendance, then what you've paid to date counts towards that service.

***Here's the breakdown of freebirth preparation. We can do some or all of these things, and do them in any order.***

I'm a prenatal yoga instructor and level 2 reiki practitioner. We can do yoga or reiki at these sessions also.

Session 1: CLARIFY SOVEREIGNTY IN BIRTH. 

- Define sovereignty as it applies to birth, newborn care, and parenting. 

- Start out healthy, even if you're not yet pregnant.

- Choose support people who will unconditionally support sovereign birth. 

- Dream pregnancy, dream birth, and dream postpartum.

-  See your blocks, don't suppress them. Then, release them or integrate them.

- "What ifs" that may happen during pregnancy. 

- Talk about sovereign miscarriage, just in case.

- How to use tools such as a fetoscope or Doppler if you're called to do so.

- The hormones of pregnancy and labor and how these play out in freebirth.

- What's the law on this?

- Keeping your newborn sovereign v. presenting her/him to the system.

Session 2: CREATE  A HEALTHY PREGNANCY.

- See how "healthy" is unique to each mother-baby dyad.

- Explore psycho-bio and energetic factors.

- Explore how nutrition and hydration affect mother, baby, and placenta, starting even before pregnancy.

- Nutritional shifts to build a healthy placenta.

- Decrease stress, keep a good blood sugar balance, a good blood pressure, overall body balance!

- Do the best you can without being stressed about de-stressing.

- Why sleep and sunshine really matter.

- Practical tips specific to YOU and your family.

- Instinct injury and how to heal from this, or to at least recognize it.

- Release the outside voices and media claims that are messing you up.

- See if you want testing and if so which ones. If you do choose testing: independently or in-system.

- Look at your medical labels (if you have any) or other health issues and how to integrate these.

- Set up a postpartum plan that honors the mother-baby as one unit.

Session 3: CREATE YOUR BIRTH SPACE. 

- Create a birth space where the mother will move freely, wildly, calmly, whatever is best for her!

- Clarify the roles of anyone who may be in your birth space.

- Gather stuff. This could be just a towel, but generally people have all kinds of things; we can go over that. 

- Understand physiologic newborn emergence.

- Understand physiologically how a newborn takes his/her first breath, comes into being earthside, and why this is dependent on staying as ONE with her/his mother.

- Understand physiologic placenta birth. 

- Ways to help with the placenta birth.

- Understand what to look for in mom and baby the first few seconds, minutes, hours, days post birth.

- Tearing and what, if anything, to do about it.

- Feeding and nourishing mom.

- Why mom-baby naked in bed really matters.

Session 4: WHAT IFS or WHAT TO DO IF SOMETHING IS MAYBE NOT OK.

-Hot topic concerns: Premature labor, water released without labor, "abnormal" fetal presentations, meconium, atypical labor patterns, bleeding during labor, back labor, +.

- Basic prep for breech presentation.

- Excessive bleeding-what to do.

- Shoulder dystocia-what to do.

- Placenta anomalies-what they may mean.

- Passing out and other things that may (not should) be handled at home.

- How to help baby breathe if she/he needs that.

- How to tell if baby is ok after a few minutes, hours and what to do if he/she is no ok.

- What to look for in the first 24-hours and after that to discern the health of mom and baby. 

- Newborn feeding and what to do if it's not working well.

- Transfer to hospital: the true facts.

***POST BIRTH***

Sessions 5-7: NOURISHING THE MOTHER AS SHE NOURISHES HER NEWBORN. 

- Help your support people to help you.

- Check on post birth healing.

- Listen to you. Listen again, as many times as you want.

- Sit with you as you "check" your newborn. Guidance on that if you want.

- Guidance with newborn feeding and action steps if needed.

- Breastfeeding support.

- Guidance with general newborn care.

- Listen to your partner.

- Help with childcare.

- Errands, dishes, other light clean-up.

- I bring you food. 

- (I do not do extensive meal prep. I do not deep clean.)

- Step into the moment so you can sleep.

- Help with paperwork.

- Referrals and/or go to appointments with you.

These sessions are usually about 2 to 3 hours, but are not timed. Choose an option. 

-$ 250 per session 

-$ 650 for 3 sessions

-$ 850 for 4 sessions

-$ 1450 for 7 sessions. 

In-person (mileage fee may be apply) or Zoom.

To connect with me, please sign up on the main page of this site for a discovery session. Or, if you've already decided to do freebirth preparation with me, please email me with your availability and we'll get started. 

(Image shared with permission from client.)

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