Enter childbirth with increased confidence.
For most first time parents childbirth is the most exciting and challenging experience they have encountered to date. Pregnancy and childbirth are a tremendous opportunity for learning, transformation and for nurturing the foundations of love in the family.
This workshop supports expectant parents to identify their wealth of experience and existing abilities that will serve them during this rite of passage. Participants will increase their understanding of the birth process and develop new skills for the journey.
Together, in this two day workshop we will explore:
- The normal process of birth and the wide range of experiences that the birthing family might have.
- How the skills the birthing team already possess are applicable to labour.
- Beneficial “tools” for the passage; including breathing, relaxation, awareness of the present moment, comfort measures, communication position changes and working with fear.
- Variations from normal in childbirth including interventions: how to avoid them when possible and when they may be necessary. Coping with the unexpected.
- Welcoming your newborn: the newborn’s awareness, breastfeeding and caring for your newborn.
- Transition to parenthood: caring for the family in the postpartum period.
Jeanne Lyons RM MA has been a practicing midwife for 25 years and has supported hundreds of families through pregnancy, labour and birth and the postpartum period. She is one of the “pioneer” midwives in British Columbia, who helped to bring about legalized funded midwifery in the province. Jeanne is a Clinical Instructor in the Midwifery Program in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She is the mother of one son.
* Photo by Suzanne Ahearne
