Freebirth Guide

Plan to freebirth or looking into freebirth? If so, then let's work together. 

We have sessions together as you create a birth space for mother-in-authority freebirth. Or, we clarify things until you discern if you're truly called to freebirth.

We also have sessions postpartum.

My freebirth prep sessions are tailored to the pregnant woman and her family, there's no template. 

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

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This is about out-of-system physiologic birth, 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 WHAT HAPPENS:

Session 1: CLARIFY SOVEREIGNTY IN BIRTH. 

- Understand 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.

- 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 tests. 

- 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 mother-baby as one unit.

Session 3: CREATE YOUR BIRTH SPACE. 

- Create a birth space for the birthing woman to 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, and why the initiation of  a newborn to air breathing happens radically differently in sovereign birth than it does in controlled delivery.

- 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.

- Set up a clear plan for your support people.

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. 

- See what's happening with healing and integration.

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

- Sit with you as you "assess" 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.)

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

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