The Birth Collaborative offers faith centered, holistic, and nutrition focused, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and bereavement doula services in the central Ohio region.
The Birth Collaborative offers faith centered, holistic, and nutrition focused, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and bereavement doula services in the central Ohio region.
A holistic, and Christ-centered childbirth education class. Giving you everything you need to be prepared, empowered, and confident in your natural birth plan, You will have the tools to manage each wave and surge as they come, feel supported by your birth team, and powerfully bring your baby into the world. Being able to recognize this monumental day as an intimate and spiritual experience, saturated in the goodness of the Holy Spirit. This class is all encompassing, faith based, and built on the foundation that physiological birth is perfect in its design, needing little to no intervention, but made a better experience by proper preparation.
This class format will include:
The stages and process of physiological labor
Natural ways of managing the intensity of labor
Tools for your primary birth partner in the best means of support
Nutritional recommendations for optimal nourishment
The basics of breastfeeding
Building both your best birth plan and team
Tools for both hospital and homebirths
Evidence based information for proper informed consent
Postpartum preparation
Resources for self education beyond our class and local provider recommendations
Access to two doulas, student midwives, and home birth mamas well beyond the class for any follow up questions or concerns
A quality childbirth education class has shown to have many benefits for families when utilized to its fullest potential. Some benefits include but are not limited to:
Less need for medical induction
Less use of pain medication
Fewer fears and more overall confidence from both mom and birth team
Less tearing or need for delivery intervention
Less accounts of pain
Quicker postpartum recovery time
Our hope is that when you finish this class, you feel powerful, confident and prepared for physiological birth. We want you to understand the positives of a less medical birth, and delight in the design Yahweh created for birth.