Labour and Birth Preparation for Clinical Practice

Participants who register for this course have the option to attend the course live-online and/or watch the recorded session later. The recording will be available to all registrants for a 6-week period after each session, and access is provided on the next business day. This allows participants who may not be able to attend live-online to still benefit from the course content.

Course Description:

This course is intended for healthcare and wellness professionals that work with pregnant individuals and are looking to help improve their clients labour and birth experience. This course will guide participants to empower their clients to have a positive birth experience using a blend of current evidence and standard birth care practices, using compassionate and trauma-informed care.

Course Objectives:

To review current statistics, standards of care and practice for birth.
To briefly explain the role of the different birth care providers and birth workers.
To learn and understand the anatomy and physiology of birth including the nervous system, pelvic anatomy, hormones, and fetal positioning.
To learn practical steps to provide care that is trauma-informed for people in the perinatal phase.
To provide a variety of ways to help your clients/patients and their birth partners to advocate for themselves during pregnancy and birth.
To understand the complex nature of pain in birth.
To review different birth interventions.
To learn and understand the stages of labour, pushing, and birth.
To learn a variety of comfort measures for birth.
To learn the evidence around positions for and types of pushing.
To provide some practical ways to implement this knowledge into a clinical practice.
Discussions around current birth trends and myths about birth.
To address clinician burnout/stress and provide strategies to help increase clinician well-being.
Case studies and group discussion