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 live 4-hour mini course/workshop is intended for healthcare and wellness professionals who work with pregnant individuals and are looking to educate clients and their birth partners to advocate for themselves and have a positive and supported birth experience.Participants will come away with a framework to help their client's partners to become active participants in the birth process.
* Course registrants will receive a $50 discount code for the Labour and Birth Preparation for Clinical Practice course. Discount code is valid for 1 year. *
Course Objectives:
In this workshop, you will:
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Learn how to educate the clients to recognize and address different nervous system states in the birthing person, including fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.
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Learn how to educate the birth partner to positively impact the birthing person's pain experience.
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Learn how to concisely explain the stages of labour, pushing, and birth to clients.
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Learn how to teach comfort measures for birth and labour positions for medicated and physiologic birth.
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Learn how to teach the evidence around positions for and types of pushing.
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Provide a variety of ways to help your clients/patients advocate for themselves during pregnancy and birth including education about different birth interventions and educating clients on advocacy and informed decision-making strategies.
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Discuss current birth trends and myths about birth.
Audience: This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals.
Prerequisite: None
Schedule
Time: 5:00pm-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. Please note - if you do not attend live, there will be approximately 10 minutes of images shown which will not be recorded for privacy reasons. 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.