So no matter where you are in your process, The Baby Bump Childbirth Education Platform™ provides you with a platform to start facilitating couples’ learning about birth in a uniquely empowering and fun childbirth education series. Perfect for doulas and other birth professionals who are just starting teaching as well as experienced childbirth educators looking for a fresh way to present the material you know well, this platform includes a Facilitator’s Guide, reproducible Study Guide and Lesson Plans with over 20 hours of instruction.
The Baby Bump Childbirth Education Platform includes:
- Timed lesson “plans” to help you determine the pace at which you want your sessions to flow
- Photos to help you visualize the activity or tools you are using
- Specific languaging to help you engage the students in your classes in participatory learning including sample story-telling options to illustrate a learning objective and sample scripting for some activities
- Objectives that are designed to be met through attention to diverse learning (and teaching) styles and to keep classes interesting
- Large group activities, small-group interactive learning, activities that promote connections between class participants and paired activities that provide connection between the expectant parents
- “Now, Do You” options for activities in each class lesson and additional resources for further developing your teaching tools and style
- Supply lists for each session and a list of resources for teaching tools and everyday items that make learning fun and accessible, DVD’s, music and more.
- Facilitator references and resource lists for further exploration and study as you make this platform your own
- Explanation of the philosophy and evolution of the Baby Bump Childbirth Education Platform (based on the successful Confident Birthing Childbirth Class™ curriculum)
- Confidence-building affirmations as you use the Baby Bump CBE Platform in a way that works for your facilitation strengths and that incorporates the contributions of the individuals participating in your classes.
This platform presents with you an outline for a complete 7 week session that offers the flexibility to tailor the classes into 4, 6 or 8 week sessions with shorter class times, weekend intensives or refresher classes, refreshers for repeating parents and stand alone classes which can be used in conjunction with doula services, for reaching a broader audience or marketing your series.
Approaching topics in a fun new way you’ll engage expectant parents and cover the following topics:
- Essential confidence-building for both mother and partner (this is the distinguishing cornerstone of the Baby Bump Childbirth Education Platform)
- Tips for keeping birth normal
- Introduction to Normal Labor and Birth
- Coping Skills & Comfort Measures
- Interventions, Informed Choice and Self-directed Advocacy
- A Complete Labor Rehearsal
- Breastfeeding
- Postpartum Care and Early Parenting
In addition to the Childbirth Education Lesson Plans (over 20 hour of class time), you will also receive the following:
- Access to the digital Study Guide that you may reproduce for your students and the instructor’s manual, the Facilitators Guid and additional Hand-out Options
- Hard copy lesson plans
- Intervention cards for the Informed Choice Activity
- Feelings and Needs cards for the Processing and Parenting Activity
- DVD of birth rehearsal “contraction sounds”
- Access to the Facebook page for childbirth educators who are using the platform.
The Baby Bump Childbirth Education Platform is available for purchase for $1200.00 plus shipping
Contact Kyndal at kyndal@babybumpservices.com for information
Also available for purchase are the following:
Moving to Empathy – Advocacy Empowerment Game with instructions $28.00 + shipping OR purchase the training video and the card decks are included! $59.00
Purse size Feelings and Needs Fan Deck $45.00 + shipping. SOLD OUT
The Baby Bump “Healthy Birth Practices Flags” SOLD OUT. For more information about purchasing Baby Bump Products contact Kyndal May at kyndal@babybumpservices.com
