Along with caring for expectant moms and catching babies, Alisa is a Birthing From Within Mentor and Mother's Circle Facilitator with the Bud to Bloom Collective. To learn more about the classes and mother's circles that our collective offers please visit www.BudtoBloom.net.
Birthing From Within classes prepare you and your partner to discover what you really need to give birth by:
Honoring the innate wisdom that you already posses.
Strengthening your confidence that you can do it.
Initiating new parents into the mysteries of childbirth.
Balancing practical, useful information, with introspective processes and interactive discussions that help you prepare soulfully to give birth.
While traditional book reading and hospital childbirth education classes will give you a lot of information about birth (knowledge of anatomy and physiology, stages of labor, etc), Birthing From Within classes offer so much more, including acceptance of who you are and what you need most to birth your baby and/or support your partner on all levels: emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Birthing From Within Classes are organic and we do not focus on a specific outcome.Parents will have a safe space to explore a variety of options in class and will receive support for whatever options are right for them. Some of the practical topics explored in class include:
Understanding labor psychology and physiology (and how they are related)
Positive communication with healthcare providers
How to "lose it" in labor
How to know what to do when you don't know what to do
Helpful labor positions
Comfort measures
Wise and compassionate use of drugs, such as epidurals
