Childbirth Educator Training
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Welcome to Rooted Birth Childbirth Educator Training!
Introduction to the course
Introduction to the course
Video: Meet Emily Graham
Video: Meet Carey Glenn
Website: Rooted Birth (Carey and Emily's local business)
Models of Maternity Care
Problems with US Maternity Care
Models of Care
Video: Transforming Perceptions of Care
ACTIVITY: INTRODUCTION
Reading List
Anatomy + Physiology of childbearing
Anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system
Sagittal view of internal female anatomy
Female reproductive system
Sagittal view of breast anatomy
Uterus
Closeup of uterine vessels
Menstrual cycle
Khan Academy video: Pregnancy physiology (10:25)
Video: Bony structures of the pelvis
Ligaments of Pelvis
Pelvic Floor
Video: Introduction to Chiropractic Care - with Dr. Kayla Abeid, DC
Video: Introduction to the Nervous System - with Dr. Kayla Abeid, DC
Video: Pregnancy and Chiropractic Care - with Dr. Kayla Abeid, DC
Podcast: Birth and the Shapeshifting Pelvis
The Psoas Muscle
Moving Well During Pregnancy from Katy Bowman at Nutritious Movement
Anatomy + Physiology - baby
Video: Fetal skull
Video: Fetal Skull with baby doll
Fetal Skull Anatomy
Video: Fetal circulation
Khan Academy video: Umbilical vessels and the ductus venous (12:32)
Khan Academy video: Foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus (14:12)
Khan Academy video: Fetal circulation right before birth (11:51)
Khan Academy video: Baby circulation right after birth (13:25)
Anatomy & Physiology - baby: Quiz
Video: A+P basics - baby
Pregnancy + Preparing for Birth
Historical concerns for mother
Historical concerns for baby
Video: Birth in the media (pt 1)
Video: Birth in the media (pt 2)
Video: Birth plans and intentions
What is a birth plan
Why birth plans don't always work
When birth plans change
Creating birth intentions
Role of Imagination
Your vision matters
Website: Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
Working with clients
Podcast: Interview with Lily Nicols, Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author
Making Nettle Infusion
Love languages
PROJECT: PREGNANCY & PREPARING FOR BIRTH
Video: History of North American childbirth
Labor + Birth
Video: Cardinal movements of labor
Khan Academy video: Labor and delivery (11:28)
Video: Hormonal blueprint
Hormonal cocktail
Video: Holistic stages of birth with Whapio
Website: Whapio's Holistic Stages (The Matrona)
Birth breastfeeding bonding
Video: Medical stages of birth
Document: The Initiation of Labor
Document: Early Labor
Document: Active Labor
Document: Transition & Pushing
Website: Spinning Babies
Website: Miles Circuit
Article: Pushing for primips (first-time birthers)
Document: Pain Medications Preference Scale
Cascade of birth interventions
Bishop Score for Induction.png
Khan Academy video: C-section (11:27)
Labor & Birth: Quiz
PROJECT: LABOR & BIRTH
These Are My Hours- Film
Teaching Birth Partners
Hormones of birth
Video: Assessing labor progress
Video: The alchemy of adrenaline
Discharging Adrenaline.png
Sharing adrenaline
Adrenaline and Memory.png
Mindfulness
Birth partner hints by enneagram type
Spiritual Birth
Video: Altered states of consciousness
Video: Intro to spiritual birth
Video: Birth as a mystical experience
Marks of a mystical experience
Video: Ancient roles & archetypes
Common archetypes
Video: Birth as a rite of passage
Podcast: Listening to My Spirit Baby
PROJECT: SPIRITUAL BIRTH
Video: Intro to altered states
Placenta & Cord
Development of the Placenta
Video: Placenta and cord
Baby, placenta, and cord
Document: Placenta Birth (3rd stage of labor)
Physiological birth of placenta
Undisturbed Placenta Birth in the Hospital
Podcast: Cord Clamping - Why we need to wait for white
Video: Problems with implantation/placentation
Khan Academy video: Placenta previa (9:02)
Khan Academy video: Placenta accreta (7:48)
Placenta_accreta.png
Khan Academy video: Placental abruption (7:34)
Placenta Encapsulation
The Placenta & the Cord: Quiz
PROJECT: PLACENTA & CORD
Variations of Normal in Birth
Podcast: VBAC Link
The VBAC Link
Podcast: Vaginal Breech Birth
Website: Breech Without Borders
Podcast: Freebirthing Twins
The Immediate Postpartum
Video: Immediate postpartum
Khan Academy video: Postpartum physiology (7:56)
Hormones of immediate postpartum
Immediate postpartum
Lochia
Lochia on pads
Clots in the Postpartum
Uterine Involution
Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Podcast: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction | Miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, Still Birth
Podcast: Stillbirth is Still a Birth
Website: The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
National Perinatal Loss Organizations: United States
Trauma and Tools for Healing
Khan Academy video: Responding to stress (8:45)
Khan Academy: Behavioral effects of stress (6:17)
Khan Academy video: Post traumatic stress disorder (5:33)
Video: Birth Trauma with Dr. Rebecca Moore
Birth trauma
Video: Intro to storycatchers
Video: Storycatchers and trauma stewards
Trauma-informed conversations
Trauma-informed leaders
Trauma-informed care
Video: Tools for healing trauma
Video: Birthing Peace Within (with Lori Barklage) - part 1
Video: Birthing Peace Within (with Lori Barklage) - part 2
Handout: RISE UP
Resmaa Manakem trauma quote
Podcast: Birthing While Black in Alabama
Interview: Coercion, Mental Health & Racism in Birth
Podcast: Homebirth After Hospital Trauma
Brene Brown trauma quote
Sexual Abuse Resources
Birthing Person's Bill of Rights
Mastery of embodiment
Carroll Quigley community quote
Website: Make Birth Better
PROJECT: TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE
Become a Changemaker in Your Community
Video: Intro to intercultural safety
Document: Intercultural Sensitivity
Intercultural competency
Video: Intersectionality in Birth (with Courtney Green)
Culture wheel
How does culture influence birth
Systemic oppression
Cultural dominance
Layered barriers
What are biases
Article: Implicit Bias in Health Care Settings
Link: Test Your Implicit Bias
Microaggressions
Article: Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why
Video: Jenna Brown; supporting LGBTQ families
Handout: Resource list from Jenna Brown
Podcast: Understanding World Religions for Birth and Death Doulas
Video: Group facilitation and communication
Expanding our reach in community
Principles of facilitation
Setting intentions for circles
Components of a story
Active listening
Steps for reflective listening
Video: Intro to creating curriculum
Video: Creating curriculum
Methods of learning
Facilitate adult learning
Website: Childbirth Graphics
FINAL PROJECT: CREATING CURRICULUM
These Are My Hours
Video: Intro to These Are My Hours
Video: Using These Are My Hours
Podcast: Bearing Witness to Birth: an interview with Emily Graham from These Are My Hours
Access your screening license for These Are My Hours
Sample forms and documents
ACE score.pdf
Sample Wellness Exploration
Sample Intentions for Birth
Sample While Waiting on Baby
Sample Things To Do In Early Labor
Sample First Few Days (MOTHER)
Sample First Few Days (BABY)
Sample Visiting MamaBaby
Sample Visiting (short)
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Childbirth Educator Training
Buy now
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Welcome to Rooted Birth Childbirth Educator Training!
Introduction to the course
Introduction to the course
Video: Meet Emily Graham
Video: Meet Carey Glenn
Website: Rooted Birth (Carey and Emily's local business)
Models of Maternity Care
Problems with US Maternity Care
Models of Care
Video: Transforming Perceptions of Care
ACTIVITY: INTRODUCTION
Reading List
Anatomy + Physiology of childbearing
Anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system
Sagittal view of internal female anatomy
Female reproductive system
Sagittal view of breast anatomy
Uterus
Closeup of uterine vessels
Menstrual cycle
Khan Academy video: Pregnancy physiology (10:25)
Video: Bony structures of the pelvis
Ligaments of Pelvis
Pelvic Floor
Video: Introduction to Chiropractic Care - with Dr. Kayla Abeid, DC
Video: Introduction to the Nervous System - with Dr. Kayla Abeid, DC
Video: Pregnancy and Chiropractic Care - with Dr. Kayla Abeid, DC
Podcast: Birth and the Shapeshifting Pelvis
The Psoas Muscle
Moving Well During Pregnancy from Katy Bowman at Nutritious Movement
Anatomy + Physiology - baby
Video: Fetal skull
Video: Fetal Skull with baby doll
Fetal Skull Anatomy
Video: Fetal circulation
Khan Academy video: Umbilical vessels and the ductus venous (12:32)
Khan Academy video: Foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus (14:12)
Khan Academy video: Fetal circulation right before birth (11:51)
Khan Academy video: Baby circulation right after birth (13:25)
Anatomy & Physiology - baby: Quiz
Video: A+P basics - baby
Pregnancy + Preparing for Birth
Historical concerns for mother
Historical concerns for baby
Video: Birth in the media (pt 1)
Video: Birth in the media (pt 2)
Video: Birth plans and intentions
What is a birth plan
Why birth plans don't always work
When birth plans change
Creating birth intentions
Role of Imagination
Your vision matters
Website: Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
Working with clients
Podcast: Interview with Lily Nicols, Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author
Making Nettle Infusion
Love languages
PROJECT: PREGNANCY & PREPARING FOR BIRTH
Video: History of North American childbirth
Labor + Birth
Video: Cardinal movements of labor
Khan Academy video: Labor and delivery (11:28)
Video: Hormonal blueprint
Hormonal cocktail
Video: Holistic stages of birth with Whapio
Website: Whapio's Holistic Stages (The Matrona)
Birth breastfeeding bonding
Video: Medical stages of birth
Document: The Initiation of Labor
Document: Early Labor
Document: Active Labor
Document: Transition & Pushing
Website: Spinning Babies
Website: Miles Circuit
Article: Pushing for primips (first-time birthers)
Document: Pain Medications Preference Scale
Cascade of birth interventions
Bishop Score for Induction.png
Khan Academy video: C-section (11:27)
Labor & Birth: Quiz
PROJECT: LABOR & BIRTH
These Are My Hours- Film
Teaching Birth Partners
Hormones of birth
Video: Assessing labor progress
Video: The alchemy of adrenaline
Discharging Adrenaline.png
Sharing adrenaline
Adrenaline and Memory.png
Mindfulness
Birth partner hints by enneagram type
Spiritual Birth
Video: Altered states of consciousness
Video: Intro to spiritual birth
Video: Birth as a mystical experience
Marks of a mystical experience
Video: Ancient roles & archetypes
Common archetypes
Video: Birth as a rite of passage
Podcast: Listening to My Spirit Baby
PROJECT: SPIRITUAL BIRTH
Video: Intro to altered states
Placenta & Cord
Development of the Placenta
Video: Placenta and cord
Baby, placenta, and cord
Document: Placenta Birth (3rd stage of labor)
Physiological birth of placenta
Undisturbed Placenta Birth in the Hospital
Podcast: Cord Clamping - Why we need to wait for white
Video: Problems with implantation/placentation
Khan Academy video: Placenta previa (9:02)
Khan Academy video: Placenta accreta (7:48)
Placenta_accreta.png
Khan Academy video: Placental abruption (7:34)
Placenta Encapsulation
The Placenta & the Cord: Quiz
PROJECT: PLACENTA & CORD
Variations of Normal in Birth
Podcast: VBAC Link
The VBAC Link
Podcast: Vaginal Breech Birth
Website: Breech Without Borders
Podcast: Freebirthing Twins
The Immediate Postpartum
Video: Immediate postpartum
Khan Academy video: Postpartum physiology (7:56)
Hormones of immediate postpartum
Immediate postpartum
Lochia
Lochia on pads
Clots in the Postpartum
Uterine Involution
Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Podcast: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction | Miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, Still Birth
Podcast: Stillbirth is Still a Birth
Website: The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
National Perinatal Loss Organizations: United States
Trauma and Tools for Healing
Khan Academy video: Responding to stress (8:45)
Khan Academy: Behavioral effects of stress (6:17)
Khan Academy video: Post traumatic stress disorder (5:33)
Video: Birth Trauma with Dr. Rebecca Moore
Birth trauma
Video: Intro to storycatchers
Video: Storycatchers and trauma stewards
Trauma-informed conversations
Trauma-informed leaders
Trauma-informed care
Video: Tools for healing trauma
Video: Birthing Peace Within (with Lori Barklage) - part 1
Video: Birthing Peace Within (with Lori Barklage) - part 2
Handout: RISE UP
Resmaa Manakem trauma quote
Podcast: Birthing While Black in Alabama
Interview: Coercion, Mental Health & Racism in Birth
Podcast: Homebirth After Hospital Trauma
Brene Brown trauma quote
Sexual Abuse Resources
Birthing Person's Bill of Rights
Mastery of embodiment
Carroll Quigley community quote
Website: Make Birth Better
PROJECT: TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE
Become a Changemaker in Your Community
Video: Intro to intercultural safety
Document: Intercultural Sensitivity
Intercultural competency
Video: Intersectionality in Birth (with Courtney Green)
Culture wheel
How does culture influence birth
Systemic oppression
Cultural dominance
Layered barriers
What are biases
Article: Implicit Bias in Health Care Settings
Link: Test Your Implicit Bias
Microaggressions
Article: Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why
Video: Jenna Brown; supporting LGBTQ families
Handout: Resource list from Jenna Brown
Podcast: Understanding World Religions for Birth and Death Doulas
Video: Group facilitation and communication
Expanding our reach in community
Principles of facilitation
Setting intentions for circles
Components of a story
Active listening
Steps for reflective listening
Video: Intro to creating curriculum
Video: Creating curriculum
Methods of learning
Facilitate adult learning
Website: Childbirth Graphics
FINAL PROJECT: CREATING CURRICULUM
These Are My Hours
Video: Intro to These Are My Hours
Video: Using These Are My Hours
Podcast: Bearing Witness to Birth: an interview with Emily Graham from These Are My Hours
Access your screening license for These Are My Hours
Sample forms and documents
ACE score.pdf
Sample Wellness Exploration
Sample Intentions for Birth
Sample While Waiting on Baby
Sample Things To Do In Early Labor
Sample First Few Days (MOTHER)
Sample First Few Days (BABY)
Sample Visiting MamaBaby
Sample Visiting (short)
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