If you're thinking about a home birth, or you've already decided and now the questions are stacking up, you're in the right place...
Here you'll find a growing collection of free online home birth masterclasses, each one diving deep into a different part of home birth preparation.
Whether you're wondering how to prepare for a home birth, what actually maximises your chances of it going to plan, or you just want holistic, unfiltered information, there's something here for you.
Your guide is Jessica Ord, one of the UK's most experienced home birth doulas and the creator of the UK's only dedicated online home birth course.
She brings not just 8 years of professional expertise, but her own experience as a freebirth mum; which means these classes are insightful, grounded, and genuinely honest.
Pick a class, get comfortable, and take that first step towards that triumphant "I did it" moment...
Partner Power;
Your Strength, Her Surrender...
A free online masterclass for couples planning a home birth
You've been sending them the research, the positive home birth reels and all the podcast episodes...
But underneath the all that 'logical' preparation - there's the very real problem that perhaps you're not wanting to look at yet (or perhaps haven't even thought of)...
Imagine you're heading towards the end of your pregnancy... when all you want to do is go 'inwards', rest at home and focus on getting ready for your beautiful birth... We all know that's when things start to get real in terms of last minute coercion, especially when we're planning a home birth.
Perhaps extra scans are suggested, or more meetings with consultants or just a general list of things you really don't want.
Or maybe it's on the day itself; perhaps when you call up you're told are no midwives available... or the midwives keep on asking to do an examination you don't want, or perhaps a transfer is suggested and you really don't feel like it's what you want.
Over the better part of a decade in supporting over 600 couples, something I've seen is that it's one thing for you partner to feel 'prepared'; to 'get' the stages of labour, or the breathing techniques you both learned in a hypnobirthing course.
He might even be completely, madly enthusiastic about home birth - it makes sense to him, maybe he'd go as far as no longer understanding why you'd even birth in a hospital... (I hear you mate!)
But...
It's a very different headspace to actually be able to not only hold the necessary space during those sometimes desperately stressful final weeks, hoop jumping through the system... but also to have cast off that compliant, 'yes sir' programming that so many of us have.
The one that makes us compliant, 'good boys/ girls'.
What this 45 minute free masterclass is looking at is way beyond '5 tips on how to be a good birth partner'; we're going to be addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to your partner and their ability to say 'No' in the face of 'authority' on the day.
So that they can really be there for you during the tough times that so often come with planning a home birth in the NHS system and when the time comes in labour they don't freeze up, or look to you to hold the line (whilst in the midst of contractions)
You want to be able to relax into the rest of your pregnancy, and on the day of your baby's birth you can simply surrender to your contractions and go inwards knowing that your partner really, truly has done the inner work that means they'll not just trust your decisions, trust birth... but that they'll trust themselves too.
In this birth and LIFE changing free masterclass, designed for you AND your partner to join we'll be diving into how your partner can feel that rooted self confidence to become your ultimate protector & partner.
Warning: This masterclass may take your relationship to deeper levels of trust, intimacy and understanding than ever before...!
LIVE MASTERCLASS - RUNNING WEDNESDAY 10TH JUNE, 8:30 - 9:15PM
(DON'T WORRY IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT LIVE, REPLAY AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE WHO SIGNS UP)
Beyond Hypnobirthing
Why most hypnobirthing courses prepare you for hospital birth and what you really need to birth confidently at home.
And I know it's ironic because so many people think hypnobirthing is primarily for the home birth 'hippies' (right?!).
In this FREE 1 hour online class, we're going beyond the breathing. You'll leave knowing:
→ Why standard hypnobirthing prep - as brilliant as it is - wasn't actually designed for the birth you're planning
→ What home birth preparation really needs to include so you (and your partner) feel genuinely confident - not just hopeful
→ What your next steps actually are, so you can stop piecing it together with bits and bobs from instagram and start building toward that moment of utter redemptive elation.
This is for you if...
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You're planning - or seriously considering - a home birth, and you're looking for birth prep that's centred around the type of birth you're craving.
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You want to feel centred, connected & confident as you journey towards your dream birth - without feeling like you're drowning in statistics & research