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7 Reasons Every Pregnant Parent Should Attend Beginning Well: A Guided Visualization for Birth Preparation
Preparing for birth isn’t just about checklists or hospital bags — it’s about how you feel, how your body responds, and how you connect with your baby. Beginning Well: A Guided Visualization for Birth Preparation is designed to help pregnant parents and birth partners step into labor with confidence, calm, and clarity.
In this guided session, you’ll explore practical tools to reduce anxiety, strengthen your nervous system, and mentally rehearse your birth experience. We focus on visualization techniques that support your body, mind, and emotional readiness — backed by doula and birth keeper expertise.
Participants leave with a deeper understanding of how to manage stress, access their body’s natural resources during labor, and communicate clearly with their birth team. Whether you’re preparing for a hospital or home birth, this session provides evidence-informed guidance, nervous system support, and an empowering space to ask questions and set intentions for your birth.
Join us to learn:
How guided visualization can reduce birth anxiety
Practical ways to prepare your mind and body for labor
Techniques to stay calm, centered, and confident during birth
How doula support helps you make informed birth decisions
This session is perfect for anyone who wants emotional, mental, and nervous system preparation — not just logistics. Walk into labor feeling prepared, grounded, and supported.
Delayed Cord Clamping: Why 60 Seconds May Not Be Enough (A Doula / Birth Keeper Perspective)
Discover why delayed cord clamping is more than just a routine at birth and how waiting beyond 60 seconds can support your baby’s circulation, oxygenation, and healthy transition. As a doula and birth keeper, I explain the physiology behind newborn blood volume, the importance of letting babies take their first breaths, and how cord clamping timing can impact iron stores and organ perfusion. Learn practical strategies for hospital and home births, understand what questions to ask your birth team, and find out how doula support can help you make informed decisions for a safe, empowered birth experience. Includes expert insight from Professor Stuart B. Hooper on newborn cardiovascular transition.
I'm so grateful for those first women who opened up to me. They created a cascade of healing.
“Every story had the same thread.Each woman felt alone in her experience."
I started working in women's wellness after I had my second baby in my home. I returned to work as a photographer and created a series documenting the journey of feeding. I collected written stories of these women. Some struggled with breastfeed but wanted to push through (first photo) the discomfort and at the time pain, to reach their natural wellness goals. Others were formula fed from the beginning. One family was dealing with lethal allergies and entering the school years.
