35. Coaching Call Sarah B Session 4

09/01/20 • 63 min

Journey to Birth podcast coaching sessions are special episodes where you get to sit in with me and one of my Natural Birth Compass Program students while I help coach them in their pregnancy to prepare for their upcoming birth. These episodes give you the opportunity for an intimate and up close look at the experience of preparing for childbirth using a very unique method that we call the Natural Birth Compass Program.
This is the fourth episode of Sarah's birth prep coaching series, and time is flying by! In today's episode, Sarah and I will explore her experiences with pain throughout her life to help her prepare techniques for her upcoming birth. Then we will explore the expectations she is setting for everyone on her birth team and her birth partner so she has the support she needs in labor. We will deep dive into some remaining questions she will bring up with her birth team at her next visit, which opens up our conversation about routine care, the differences between routine and mandatory procedures in your birth environment, your right of refusal in labor, we look at the range of concerns for cervical exams in labor because I find so many women don’t realize the layers of invasiveness of a cervical exam beyond the physical impact of the intervention itself. Finally, we talk about a physiologic vs managed third stage, which is all about birthing your placenta, we talk about options for using your placenta and what you need to know if you want to use it, and we talk a bit about common newborn procedures, like eye ointment and vitamin k.
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Further info & opportunities:

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

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Further info & opportunities:

Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

_______________________
Further info & opportunities:

Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

Previous Episode

34. What is Prenatal Care?

Have you ever noticed that when you are pregnant, you are automatically put into a category, you are never just considered a healthy person going through a normal life experience, you are not looked at as a strong woman venturing on the journey of pregnancy and birth, instead when you are pregnant, you are labeled as either high risk or low risk, but always a risk.
On this episode, I want to remind you that pregnancy & birth are not medical events and share why your prenatal visits shouldn't be focused on medical aspects of care or checking off the appropriate risk assessment test for each stage of your pregnancy and what to do if you can't find a care provider to support the prenatal care you need.
So let's take a look at new perspectives of prenatal care on the journey to birth podcast.
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Further info & opportunities:

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

_______________________
Further info & opportunities:

Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

Next Episode

36. Yin & Yang of Birth, Exploring Starre's Birth Journey

If you have been listening to this podcast, you have probably heard Starre's birth coaching series and ever since we did her postpartum call to process her birth story, I have wanted to distill a few things that came up during that call from her birth story, and some perspectives related to it that I would like to explore about our birth culture. So I thought I would take you on that exploration with me.

So today I will dive into the yin and yang of birth you could say, how we approach birth and what this says about our preparation for birth, our management of birth and the system of birth, and my thoughts on what we could be doing differently, maybe better, but at least differently.
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Further info & opportunities:

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

_______________________
Further info & opportunities: