Cultivating and maintaining a positive pregnancy mindset

Cultivating a positive mindset creates a powerful foundation for a healthy, happy pregnancy and birth to spring forth from.

These teachings are simple yet powerful. The simple and accessible tools that you use daily create an incremental change in your thinking and perception of life and is an incredibly powerful gift to give yourself and your developing baby.

This IS the foundation of everything and digging in deep here can bring a surprising transformation into your life, teach you about your personal and our collective belief systems and how to modify them when needed, how to clarify your vision, focus your attention and intentions, retrain your brain, and gain control over your life and your pregnancy.

All this, while learning to connect deeply with yourself and your baby, as you undertake the massive role changes that having a baby brings to your life.

This is a very special journey into a deeper understanding of yourself and while you participate in this process, your baby's brain and nervous also develops under the positive influences of consciously cultivating a positive mindset. As you bathe yourself in positivity so too is your baby bathed. As you think positive thoughts and use positive language, so too is your baby trained to think and speak in that manner. As you choose to return to this practice, you gain control over your life, and despite the outer circumstances, and claim ownership of your own pregnancy experience. As you look into your fears, discomforts, and what may be considered negative feelings about self or the world around you, you learn to lean into and expand, freeing yourself from these chains and gaining more freedom, choices and solutions.

These are essential and valuable lessons to learn and will be used over and over again as you not only move through labor and birth, and the demands of early parenting but the tools cultivated in developing a positive mindset now, ripple out into your present and future life and can be taught to your children as they learn and grow in themselves. 

Navigating the maternity health care system

This is a must know. The pregnancy and birthing process have been kept behind closed doors for a long time and many people either don’t know what to expect, have misconceptions based on TV and other peoples stories or more importantly, don’t know what their choices are or how to get the care they want.

We teach you exactly what to expect in prenatal care, during birth and through the postpartum. We show you what your choices are and how to assert your care preferences. We teach about pregnancy testing and procedures, so you can make informed decisions about what is best for you and your baby. We teach you ways to stay in control during these procedures so you maintain your power and dignity.

You will learn essential communications skills, decision making techniques and many powerful ways to be an active participant in your own prenatal care and birthing experience. How can you take any control of your experience (and believe me, if you don’t, the system will), if you don’t have the insider knowledge of what to expect and what to accept?

Taking care of your body and your baby

This is foundational learning and must know information to charge you with the needed knowledge to literally build a baby and have the healthiest pregnancy and birth possible while also working to prevent pregnancy complications.

Prevention is an active state. We do not screen you for risks here, that is for your healthcare provider to do, but screening and prevention are not the same.

Armed with a thorough investigation of pregnancy anatomy and physiology, we teach you just how amazing your body is so you can gain an appreciation and understanding on how to support your body doing what it already knows precisely how to do (grow a healthy baby).

Nutrition is the foundation of our vitality and life long health. The maternal environment we provide for our babies also plays a pivotal role in establishing this life long health for our children. Did you know that the framework for type 1 diabetes and some forms of heart disease are established in utero

Lavishly and optimally nourishing your body during pregnancy with proper nutrition and exercise, can greatly enhance, support an optimal pregnancy and birth while providing the essential nutrients your developing baby needs to thrive.

We meet you where you are at and help you make incremental and sustainable changes in order to develop great lifestyle habits that your whole family can benefit from and embrace. 

With the help of learning key physiological concepts,  we teach you exactly how to support yourself and your baby through all the increased demands that pregnancy, birth and lactation require with healthy foods (many recipes included), exercise, and precise movements / stretches to help you stay comfortable during pregnancy, optimize your baby’s position for a smooth labor and birth and build your resources so you have the stamina to flourish in early motherhood.

Support and community

Even though I am a fierce supporter of the independence of women, we were simply not meant to be alone, especially in motherhood. Unfortunately, the modern lifestyle leaves many new mothers alone in this socially complex experience. I staunchly believe, that we can not only have an ecstatic pregnancy and birth experience but can drastically reduce postpartum depression simply by being there for each other, in person, on the phone, virtually or in the online format.

In this pillar, we delve into communication skills and teach practical ways to build a supportive community for yourself, your baby and family. Through our group solution oriented examples, we experience what it is like to be a part of something larger than ourselves, a part of a simple yet incredibly rich way to support one another. A model that can be taken back to and implemented in your own experience of local community.

For some, this is an easy process and for others, it takes getting really uncomfortable, taking risks, reaching out, being vulnerable and asking for help. Learning what our needs are and how to get those needs met is not an easy task but finding community through pregnancy and motherhood is an essential component to achieving a happy and healthful experience.

While we can not do the work for you in your own communities, we do provide one here within the Midwife Method. Our private facebook group creates a safe atmosphere for deep sharing and growth through participation in weekly reflections, exploring journaling thoughts and sharing the experience of pregnancy.

In learning to support one another online, you learn to do the same for women in your own communities.  Additionally, through the bi-monthly live Q&A sessions for your individual cohort (again, building that friendship and community within the group), you receive group supported, individualized mentoring, guidance, support, encouragement and inspiration from your virtual midwives.