Birth Prep Bundle with Misty Gant & Molly Landolt
A four part Birth Prep series created by Bija’s founder Misty Gant, and Bija’s Birth Pathway advisor Molly Landolt. Purchase includes all four courses plus their resource guides.
Birth Terms & Definitions (2 hours)
You will learn all the terms and definitions you may hear in your birth space and at prenatal appointments. This is a great education session to support you as you build out your birth preferences.
You’ll learn…
+ What a Bishop score is and how it can help you navigate a push for an induction
+ What exactly dilation, effacement and station is and how you can understand your labor progression
+ Optimal fetal positioning
+ What hormones are working together and how you can support the flow
+ Medical terms for interventions and procedures that may be offered
+ Epidurals - the benefits, the risks and the alternatives
+ Inductions and the procedures that may happen to induce or augment labor
+ Tips for advocating for yourself during birth
Stages of Labor & Birth (50 minutes)
The second course in the Birth Prep series and goes through the physiological process of giving birth. Understanding the different stages of your birth allows you to be an active participant.
You’ll learn…
+ Signs that your body is warming up for labor
+ Signs that labor could be imminent
+ How to time contractions
+ At what point to head to your place of birth
+ What to do if your water breaks
+ What happens in early labor, active labor and transition
+ What happens in the birth of you baby and the placenta
+ Examples of beautiful, powerful birth
Positions for Progression (45 minutes)
Positions for Progression focuses on the positions that will work with your body at various stages of labor.
You will learn:
+ What happens physiologically during labor
+ How the pelvis work and how to open the outlet
+ Suggestions for early labor movement
+ Over 25 positions that will work with your body to help get your baby in the optimal position for birth
+ Epidural friendly positions (you don’t have to birth on your back!)
+ Different positions (you don’t have to push on your back either!)
Non-Medical Comfort Techniques (45 minutes)
Created by two birth doulas, this course has all the tips and tricks for navigating birth’s intensity.
You’ll learn…
+ What is an oxytocic environment and how to create one in your birth space
+ Doulas best tips for navigating pain relief and comfort techniques
+ Breathing techniques for the different stages of labor
+ How to use body work and acupressure
What’s included:
+ Link to watch all four courses
+ Link to guides for each course
MEET MISTY
Misty is a certified birth and postpartum doula, certified lactation counselor. She is also trained in Spinning Babies and as a newborn care specialist. She also is an integrative wellness practitioner with a particular interest in herbal medicine.
Her own experience in navigating her own fertility along with supporting numerous births, and witnessing the lack of care within those medical settings, spurred her on to build a space where women are held, lifted up and empowered to cross the threshold into motherhood on their own terms.
Misty splits her time between Auckland, NZ and Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder of Bija.
MEET MOLLY
Molly is a certified birth doula and lactation counselor. She is also a Reiki I energy healer and acupressurist. As a birth worker she noticed a severance between the self and higher wisdom, with many women relying on empirical data to validate their intuition. This spurred a passion to help women understand their bodies, unearth their intuitive listening, and heal energetically. Molly lives and works in Washington DC.
@dc.doula