Birth Prep Sessions

I offer prenatal birth preparation sessions for families who want all the education and preparation from prenatal visits with a doula but prefer to keep their birth experience intimate and private without the presence of a doula at their birth. These sessions are available in-person in your home (if you live locally) or virtually and are tailored to your specific needs and situation. This is also a great option for families who live out of town (or across the country!) and want to benefit from birth prep without the hands on birth support.

Birth Prep Sessions Include:

The Sessions:

Each session is 3 hours long and takes place either in-person in your home or virtually. The number of sessions you book is entirely up to you (at least 2 is recommended). Depending on your existing level of birth education and your goals for preparation, you may choose from any of the typical prenatal topics I cover with my families:

  • your vision for this experience 

  • your values in life and in birth

  • your birth team, expectations, roles

  • previous birth stories / familial birth stories 

  • fear around birth / previous birth trauma

  • touch on previous trauma, PTSD/CPTSD and its relationship to labor & birth

  • explore nervous system health, responses & grounding practices

  • exploring perception of safety/risk tolerance for you

  • exploring personality types & relationship dynamics

  • discuss previous and/or upcoming OB/midwife appointments

  • providing education/information/options around pregnancy choices such as ultrasound, tests, screens, vaccines, treatments.

  • discuss patient-led prenatal care: nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management

  • Spinning Babies education

  • coping techniques for labor

  • empowering the partner / teaching advocacy skills

  • how to gather the information needed to make values-based, informed-decisions & implement BRAIN

  • create your birth plan (3 versions)

  • practice using informed consent and refusal, role play real advocacy scenarios

  • options around birth choices (induction, membrane sweeps, cervical exams, pushing positions, monitoring, pain management, cesarean, NICU stay, GBS, Rhogam, NST, biophysical profile and more)

Materials & Resources:

  • In the mail you will receive your own physical copy of Intentional Birth’s Birth Plan Guide Workbook.

  • You receive access to my extensive resource library covering the most asked about pregnancy & birth topics.

  • You receive access to my list of trusted referrals for complimentary practitioners (midwives, OBs, lactation, acupuncture, CST, therapy, massage, etc).

  • Guided meditation audio tracks for labor & birth.

Not Included:

  • on-call availability or attending your birth in person

  • virtual birth support

  • postpartum planning

  • postpartum support

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