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
This course includes a $50 discount code for the How to Structure a Partner Birth Prep Session in Clinic November 2026 course.
Audience: This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals.
Prerequisites: None
Schedule
Time: 5:30pm - 9:00pm ET (Toronto). Please convert to your local time zone.
Delivery Format
Live attendance is not mandatory for this online course. Enjoy a 6-week period to access and review the course recordings, which is sent out on the next business day following each session. We understand that life can be busy, which is why we offer you the freedom to access the course recording(s) during the time-limited viewing period.
Instructors
Anita Lambert
Anita Lambert is a pelvic health and orthopaedic physiotherapist with a focus on perinatal care. She’s the owner of Holistic Health Physiotherapy, the creator of the Bump to Birth Method, cohost of the To Birth & Beyond podcast, mentor and coach to pelvic health physiotherapists around the world and mom of 2 energetic little ones.
Growing up as a ballet dancer and athlete, Anita was always fascinated with how the body moved and healed. Her love for dance and sport led her to become the team therapist for the McMaster University women’s rugby and basketball teams, and later, President of Healthy Dancer Canada and an on site physiotherapist for Canada’s Ballet Jörgen.
Five years into her physiotherapy career, her clinical practice niched down to focus on pregnancy, pelvic health, birth prep and postpartum recovery while still working with dancers and athletes of all levels during these stages of life.
Anita is passionate about helping pregnant clients connect more with their body including pelvic floor plus help them stay active during pregnancy while providing evidence based birth education and strategies as they prepare for an informed and empowered birth.
She is equally passionate about empowering her postpartum clients to navigate their recovery and return to activities they love including all forms of exercise, sports and dance without pain and pelvic floor symptoms whether they are 10 days or 10 years post birth.
Having worked as a physiotherapist for nearly 15 years, she enjoys coaching and mentoring pelvic health physiotherapists who are diving into the area of perinatal care to help them increase their skill set and confidence in this area as well as to build a thriving clinical practice.
Outside of work, you can find Anita strength training, practicing yoga or Pilates or enjoying the outdoors and spending quality time with her husband, daughter and son.
Robyn Synnott
Robyn Synnott is a Registered Physiotherapist of over 15 years, and a pelvic health physiotherapist for over a decade. She has a trauma-informed practice helping women and gender-diverse individuals with pelvic health concerns and persistent pain. She works for the Hamilton Family Health Team providing these services to those who could not otherwise afford it. Robyn also teaches continuing education courses for allied health professionals through Pelvic Health Solutions on how to practice trauma-informed care and how to support clients through labour and birth. She is a fierce advocate for women, gender-diverse individuals, and marginalized people in the community and in healthcare.