The Starter Pack Download Includes:
1. Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness
2. Empty Arms: Hope and Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy
3. Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal And Postpartum Depression
4. Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
5. Placenta – The Forgotten Chakra
6. The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Partners, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
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Popular Book Summary Titles
- Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness
- Nurturing the Family: A Doula’s Guide to Supporting New Parents
- Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
- Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds
- Empty Arms: Hope and Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy
- Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta
- Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal And Postpartum Depression
- The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
- The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
- Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
- Placenta – The Forgotten Chakra
- Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
- The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth
- The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Partners, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
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Distilled wisdom from the industry’s best books; get the best ‘big ideas’ on birth and postpartum doula work, nursing/lactation science, bereavement, herbalism, wise-woman care, and more!
Topics Covered In The Birth Book Summaries Monthly Book Club Include:
Mystical Midwifery: Learn how to have an embodied presence across multiple planes so your clients are profoundly companioned across the psychosomatic, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of birth.
Atmosphere Cultivation: Learn how to cultivate and guard birth environments that are conducive to the hormonal progression of labor. These enhanced levels of oxytocin and endorphins facilitate labor progression and postpartum bonding.
Herbal Solutions: Our favorite herbal recipes for the common conditions during the child-bearing year. Transform into a wise healer as you discover plant-based solutions.
“These summaries are a decent length (30-40 pages) and the repetition of concepts through the books is what I needed to finally be assertive in my knowledge. Now that I’m not self-conscious, I’m a warmer, more engaging doula and I think my clients can feel that.”
Trauma-Informed Care: Understand how to give specialized care for survivors of sexual abuse as you create a safe and supportive birthing environment tailored to each unique need set.
Childbirth Education and Birth Plan Creation: How to craft a comprehensive birth plan with client preferences for pain management, labor positions, and medical interventions. Empower your clients to clearly articulate their desires. How and why to make a second document that’s a valuable tool for communication with healthcare providers.
Labor Labyrinth Mastery: Deeply understand the stages of labor so you can expertly guide the labor journey (if needed). Know what to expect with labor progression so you can help your client make informed decisions.
I used to be nervous for a client to ask if I’d read Ina May’s classics and…I hadn’t! I wanted to read all the situation-specific books (breech, loss, etc.) first and hadn’t gotten to several cult classics. That fear used to cloud my appointments but thanks to this site I’m not afraid of any question anymore!
Difficult Situation Training: Whether it’s a dysregulated care provider, nurse, or family member, use these scripts and techniques to diffuse situations, negotiate, and ultimately empower your client’s needs above other interests.
Medical Procedure Details: Information regarding the benefits, risks, and alternatives to any proposed procedures so your client can make informed decisions aligning with their values.
Advocacy Training: How to hold space for your client to assert their preferences, plus best practices to ensure the birth experience is as empowered as possible.
Communication Strategy: Advocacy scripts, proven negotiation tactics, and empathy training for facilitating communication within a birth team so you’re prepared for birth’s challenging situations.
“This site healed my imposter syndrome! Being able to grasp a book’s main points so quickly made me unafraid of client questions and medical personnel interactions. A doctor asked me the other day if I’d been a doula for a while when I’ve actually only been to five births—I know my stuff and it shows!”
Labor Easement: Become a specialist in optimizing fetal engagement, so you can suggest strategic maternal positioning that reduces prolonged early labor and mitigate preventable cervical and soft tissue disorders, including anterior cervical lip.
Comfort Measures: Explore more easement strategies in less time as the summaries cover aromatherapy, massage, movement, breathing and visualization techniques, hot and cold therapy, water therapy, and more!
Intuitive Positioning Mastery: Develop profound intuitive ability to move with your client into powerful positions that align the maternal and fetal spines vertically. Learn to utilize abdominal lift techniques, and adjust pelvic positioning for a gentler delivery.
Transitional Guidance: Be present with proven remedies for fatigue during transition. Learn hip pressure techniques and how to trust the innate wisdom of the fetal ejection reflex and the mother’s pushing urges.
Family Support: Gain insight from multiple experts on how to anticipate and meet the needs of partners, children, and other family members. (Bonus tips for handling the infamous mother-in-law card!)
Breastfeeding Support: Best practices for client guidance, support, or referral to ensure a successful start to the breastfeeding relationship.
Newborn Care: All the details on newborn care, including common questions about weight, diaper changes, naps, feeding, strained breathing sounds, jaundice, and more.
Meal Preparation: Discover nutrient-dense meals that will wow and nourish families for the postpartum period.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. This is a community service project by Brilliant Birth Academy as a love gift back to the wider birth community.
We freakin’ love summaries and we love birth books– this honestly should have been done soooo long ago.
(But the directors had babies instead. And you know how real babies trump project babies).
Just enter your name and email into the intake form and the download page will populate after– you can hit download and the direct download of all these six titles will hit yo’ desktop:
Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness
Empty Arms: Hope and Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy
Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Prenatal And Postpartum Depression
Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
Placenta – The Forgotten Chakra
The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Partners, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
Unfortunately not at this time– we want to keep this as a free offering for now. You get an immediate six and then make sure to stay on our email list and we’ll drip out fresh summaries to your inbox.
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