Developing your Pain Coping Toolbox: 

Sunday July 14th 10am-1pm. (This class needs three couples to run).

You already have what you need to in order to have a baby. REALLY. Birth doesn’t need to be a mystery, scary or traumatic. The body knows what it needs throughout the whole process and, to put it simply, if you can breathe, poop and have a uterus, you can have a baby.

However, we can make it MUCH more enjoyable with a few coping tools. As creatures of habit, mammals have useful learned behaviors for coping with pain and stress that are transferable skills! In addition to learning birth best practices form an experienced doula, this workshop helps you explore your natural and well honed physical and emotional pain coping strategies and apply them to birth. 

We will cover:

• Natural methods of coping with physical and emotional stress;

• Rediscovering your own coping resources;

• Connecting with your partner for birth and beyond;

• Movement;

• Positions for birth;

• Doula best practices;

• Acupressure;

• Rebozo;

• Massage;

• Birth teams;

• Navigating care options;

• Birth plans;

• Establishing great communication with your care provider;

• Coping with detours;

• AND much more!

This course is best for you if:

• You don't have time for a full 6 week course;

• You want to explore the physical AND emotional ways of coping with labor;

• You know that birth doesn't need to suck;

• You are engaged in your healthcare;

• You seek out evidence-based information;

• You want to connect with your partner and develop tools within your relationship that will serve you for life;

• You want to cut through all the "shoulds" for coping with labor and parenting to find your own way;

• You are planning ANY type of birth;

• You want to feel validated;

• You don't want to feel judged for your decisions; AND

• You want to feel prepared and strong during your birth.