What Educators Are Saying

Kyndal has developed an innovative curriculum, teaching it first in Seattle and now over in Boise. When she moved to Boise, I purchased a license to use her curriculum, which was the best money I’ve ever spent!

~ Liz Chalmers, BirthZone, Creator of the Labor Simulator

The Confident Birthing platform is both structured AND dynamic so that I don’t feel like I’m winging it, I have lots of information and resources to help me teach, and also that I have the flexibility to engage the members of my class at their level, with what they need. There is more and more evidence-based information about birth coming available all the time and this platform allows the incorporation of the new information while maintaining the sturdy structure that Kyndal has worked so hard to provide. This platform is engaging for both educators and students because so many teaching methods are used throughout the course. Fun to teach, great information, this platform is an amazing resource for anyone who wants to help prepare parents for birth!

– Tiffany Grantom

The Baby Bump platform has been so awesome. You can pick up the instructors guide and get right to it! I love that the information is evidence based, making the content fluid and open to the changes in the birth world. Kyndal is extremely creative and can help you brainstorm on anything from marketing your classes to lesson activities. This is a rich platform that sends parents into birth well-informed and confident in their bodies and choices.

– Ashtin Appel Hart

I love this platform! Kyndal has put so much into it and it definitely shows! The platform covers a wealth of information in a very interactive way to keep the learners involved and helping them to gain confidence and retain much more. It is all evidence-based and prepares parents to make well-informed choices. The instructor’s guide is so easy to follow you can begin teaching right away, and yet there is plenty of room to tweak it and make it personal for your group. The parent handbooks are an invaluable resource they can use to personalize their journey and turn to again and again when your class is over. The ongoing support Kyndal provides is amazing! She is always there to answer questions and help you brainstorm ideas. She also keeps you up-to-date in the birth arena. This was definitely worth the investment!

– Rebecca Theide

I am at the starting line in my own childbirth education journey. As a doula, it’s time for me to begin and I feel so excited to begin with the Baby Bump Confident Birthing platform! I am not only enthusiastic about the intuitive and applicable curriculum but I’m so impressed with the support and community Baby Bump provides the instructors. Kyndal’s sincere and experienced encouragement has been an awesome beginning for me. Having a forum for instructors to analyze their successes and challenges in the classroom with the curriculum is one important factor for me in choosing Baby Bump to be the platform I teach.

– Elan Eddington

I LOVE the platform! I am not creative so I love the direction and suggestions it provides and tools to help you illustrate topics. I have suggested it to several other doulas who are looking to start teaching.

Sarah Harre, Japan

Kyndal May teaches one of the best childbirth classes I know of. I don’t know of a more well-rounded class. I can say I’m a better childbirth educator and doula for having been through her class as well.

~ Anastacia Townsend, Bradley Childbirth Educator, mother of 6

Our loss is Boise’s gain. You have been a huge contributor to the well-being of families in the Greater Seattle area. I do hope you will be able to continue your work in Boise because you have so much to offer. Please know that you have left a wonderful mark here.

~ Penny Simkin, Co-Founder of DONA, author of Pregnancy, Childbirth & the Newborn and The Birth Partner

Over the years, my involvement and leadership on the boards of Pacific Association for Labor Support and Seattle Midwifery School gave me opportunities to interact with Kyndal in her various leadership roles with the Puget Sound Birth Center. In more recent years, our relationship centered around the ethnographic research I conducted for Lamaze International on childbirth education.

Kyndal is a very effective teacher. We have had long discussions about her teaching philosophy and her evolving curriculum in childbirth education. A couple of highlights and personal examples I have observed from her teaching: I was struck at how much movement Kyndal incorporates into her childbirth education classes, compared to others I have observed, even those directed primarily at women desiring un-medicated birth. She told me she used to teach CBE with just movement, no lecture, but gradually evolved to a blend of both.

Kyndal employs a number of memorable catch phrases, one of these is ‘hang on your bones’. She also developed several unique and innovative partner support positions (that really need to be documented and shared with others), that are difficult to describe in words, but that embody the twin goals of addressing the physical comfort needs of the woman with the emotional and embodied presence of the partner.” Christine Morton, PhD, Research Sociologist, Doula

Read more about ChristineMorton’s research and her observations on doulas as childbirth educators in Lamaze International’s Blog Science and Sensibility.

~ Christine M.