Beyond the Birth Plan: Paradigm Shifting For Birth Professionals

By Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, CLE, CCCE, CLD

Description:

It’s time for birthing professional to step outside of the box and rethink prenatal education. Learn about what is no longer working for expectant parents, including birth plans and traditional childbirth education. Find out what parents and support professionals really think about birth plans and how this impacts outcome Discover new ways to help parents realize the birth of the their dreams by tapping into the part of the brain that is most associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Come and get creative with Tracy and Laurel and participate in creating your own birth vision board! Shift your thinking, step into the new paradigm.

Students will be able to identify at least 3 reasons why using standard birth plans can result in potential negative outcomes for birth.

Students will identify at least 2 options to traditional birth plans for communicating birthing preferences.

Students will be able to define the four steps to creating a birth vision board using conscious agreement.

  1. The Paradigm Shift
  2. What birth professionals believe vs. the reaity
  3. What expectant parents want from their birth today
  4. Changes over past two decades
  5. Reasons for change
  6. Expectations from support professionals
  7. What current data says
  8. Nurses, doulas, midwives, ob’s, childbirth educator
  9. Are goals of birthing professionals equivalent to parent expectations?
  10. Current preparation for birth
  11. Childbirth education and data abut success/failure
  12. Why is traditional education failing
  13. Truth About Birth Plans
  14. Benefits of Birth Plans
  15. For Expectant Family
  16. For Support Professionals
  17. For Other Support Team
  18. Risks of Birth Plans
  19. Statements from Nurses/OB’s about birth plans
  20. Options for Communicating Needs
  21. Prenatal Preparation
  22. Reality of laboring body
  23. Hormones
  24. Change in brain focus/communication ability
  25. Support partners
  26. What they need to know
  27. Partner
  28. Birth Art/Birth Vision Boards
  29. Pros/Cons
  30. Creating a Birth Vision Board
  31. What is a vision board
  32. Goals of birth vision boards
  33. Conscious Agreement
  34. Steps to creating a vision board

Questions:

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