Create Your Birth Plan

A step-by-step guide to making informed decisions for you and your family

Did you know there is a secret menu for your labor care? In this class we begin to work on your birth plan. I go over common practices, why they're followed, the risks and benefits of each and finally, I give you the secret menu!

This class is jam packed with all of the evidence based information you will need in order to make informed decisions about how you birth and about your newborns care in the hospital. By the end of this class you will have a birth plan that fits your family. You will be able to discuss your choices with your birth team and your provider. Most importantly, you and your partner will go into labor feeling like you know the answers no matter the twists and turns your journey makes.

Course Curriculum

1. Reading Homework
2. Labor - What is happening in Mom's body
3. Labor - What is happening in Baby's Body
4. Impacts & Strategies for Interventions during Labor
1. Birth Plan Worksheet
2. Hospital Admittance - Triage
3. Food In Labor
4. IV versus Hep. Lock
5. Cervical Exams
6. Owning Your Choices
  FREE PREVIEW
7. Fetal Monitoring
8. Episiotomy
9. Evidence Based - Active Management of Third Stage
10. What is active management of third stage?
11. Risks & Benefits - Delayed Cord Clamping
12. Risks & Benefits - Gentle Traction Applied to the Cord
13. Risks & Benefits - 3rd Stage Pitocin
14. Cesarean Options and Cord Blood Banking
15. Placenta Encapsulation
16. Placenta Encapsulation Information
1. Bathing & Human Microbiome
2. Bath - Reasons to Delay
3. Early Newborn Care
4. Routine Newborn Care - Eye Ointment
5. Evidence Based Birth- Vitamin K Shot
6. Routine Newborn Care - Vitamin K Shot
7. AAP - Immunization Schedule 2022
8. Well, I turned out okay...
9. Vaccinations - Resources and Things to Understand
10. Newborn Screening Brochure_Colorado
11. Newborn Screening
12. The Real Reason You're Circumcised - Adam Ruins Everything
13. Circumcision
14. Circumcision
15. Others Holding Your Baby & DTap Vaccination
1. Example Birth Plan Format
2. What to do when you complete your birth plan
1. Know the information but trust your gut!

About this course

$24.99
38 lessons
1.5 hours of video content

What others have been saying about this course:

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Katie Barrett

I thought that this course was very helpful and a good breakdown of a lot of information!

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Great Information!

Jessica Sewell-Mabson

This was extremely informative for me, especially as a FTM. Bea is precise and to the point, her energy is amazing & it didn't feel like I was watching...

This was extremely informative for me, especially as a FTM. Bea is precise and to the point, her energy is amazing & it didn't feel like I was watching a monotone class course. I really appreciated the PDF's that were attached in the courses, so my husband and I could have that additional reading information in case we forgot something. Thanks!

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Loved this!

Heather Peters

Loved this online class series! The videos were so informative and I loved that all the materials were arranged to be printed right before the video that add...

Loved this online class series! The videos were so informative and I loved that all the materials were arranged to be printed right before the video that addressed it!

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About the instructor

Professional Labor Doula & Midwife Assistant Bea Wilds

Bea received her initial doula training & certification through CAPPA in 2012. She continued her education with some of our nation’s most noteworthy birth workers. She trained in Rebozo skills with Gina Kirby, she expanded her birth skills with Birthing From Within’s Virginia Bobro, and became a midwife assistant with The Farm midwives. Bea has attended hundreds births as a doula and midwife assistant. She has attended unmedicated, medicated and cesarean births in the hospital and regularly attends homebirths.As a prenatal yoga teacher and doula, Bea is highly skilled in helping achieve optimal fetal positioning prior to and during labor. Bea’s birth philosophy is that there is not one “perfect” way to birth, rather each woman must meet birth in her own way at that moment.