Birth Terms & Definitions with Misty Gant & Molly Landolt
The first course in the Birth Prep series. 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
What’s included:
+ Link to watch course (2 hours)
+ Link to guide
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.