Active birth workshop
essential skills for birth partners
Based on her 25 years of doula experience, Cáitlin has seen first hand how simple and practical techniques can truly make a difference to your labour experience.
At Cáitlin’s active birth partners’s workshop you will have a ‘real’ rehearsal of how a normal labour might unfold from early labour to giving birth.
You will discover what labour and birth positions feel like and what might work for you.
You will learn particular movements that can help baby’s journey through your pelvis.
You will learn effective breathing techniques to help you cope during the working and resting parts of labour.
You will learn how resting well during labour is key to coping well.
you can explore how birth affirmations/mantra can support you to focus without fear.
Your birth partner will learn how your body is supposed to behave naturally and instinctively during labour and how they might support that process.
They will learn how to support you emotionally.
how to massage and use pressure effectively.
how gravity helps you and your baby.
how to keep you comfortable & coping from TENS machines to birth pools.
“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for today. It was by far and away the most useful birth preparation across the board - and we’ve done it all!
“I am feeling a lot more positive & confident. This session helped me on both a practical & emotional level. Thanks also for making me feel so at ease & not self conscious about how to get comfortable in my body.”
The workshop is best attended from 30 weeks of pregnancy.
The workshop is held in a spacious, comfortable studio at kin collective on Leith Links.