RETURNING SOVEREIGN BIRTH TO MOTHERS AND FAMILIES

Class Dates: These are private sessions (group or individual), so dates and times are TBD based on our collective scheduling needs.
Investment: $497 per pair (payment plans available)
Location: TBD Based on Participants

The eight-session Birth In Power private class series will reveal to you the childbearing continuum as it has evolved over the past few hundred years to modern day - from birthing alone in our own homes to birthing in hospitals in front of entire medical teams, and back to home again.

The series explores the basics of birth and postpartum recovery, and the many ways in which these experiences can unfold for modern day mothers. Natural, undisturbed, physiologic birth is emphasized as the ideal foundational birth scenario, and the truth about how and why giving birth in a hospital (or with licensed midwives) by default is NOT conducive to a safe and healthy birth experience will be explored.

If you are drawn to birthing at home or outside of the system, and want to learn the truth about birth and postpartum expansion, or if you would like to be able to support the birthing families in your life with a deeper understanding of what the physiological birthing process looks like when left undisturbed, this is the right class for you.

As a mother, I personally received both OBGYN and midwifery care, birthed both in the hospital and at home; both with medical attendants and without; both with an epidural and without. I have attended hospital, cesarean, birth center and midwife-supported home births as a birth doula, and I have mentored freebirthing mothers as to how to prepare for their sovereign birth at home.

When it comes to the postpartum realm, I’ve had three unique experiences myself (both with and without doula and family support, and also on lockdown in 2020), and I have supported a variety of families in their own homes in support of their innate parenting wisdom.

In addition to birthing and mothering three living children, I have experienced two losses and the recovery thereafter. As a result of all of the above, I have been blessed with the ability to both see and feel birth and motherhood from a variety of different perspectives. This makes me an excellent guide in regard to the realities of birth and postpartum versus the mistruths and cultural misunderstandings of these life experiences, which will help you in deciding where and how you wish to birth your baby. Birth matters, and your experience of bringing forth life is truly sacred. I am here to shine a light on this truth for you and all who love you and wish to support you during this time.

CONTENT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

  • Birth as a rite of passage and altered state of consciousness

  • Nature’s blueprint for natural, physiologic birth to unfold perfectly for both mother and baby

  • What is required for physiologic birth to occur in today’s modern settings

  • The current state of birth in our culture, and in comparison to other cultures

  • The history of birth

  • Licensed, traditional, and radical midwifery care options

  • Self-guided and mother-centered prenatal care and birthing options

  • Engaging with the power of labor and birth as opposed to avoiding this power or engaging with excessive fear

  • Moving through fear and into trust via meditation, prayer, and manifestation

  • Prenatal and postpartum nutrition

  • Bodywork and its role in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery

  • The spiritual aspects of creating, birthing and sustaining the life of another

  • Traditional postpartum healing modalities, including womb steaming and the practice of taking 40+ days to rest after the birth of your baby

  • Physiologic baby care wisdom

  • Honoring the impact of your baby’s journey from water to land

  • Breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and holistic formula options (including homemade)

  • Co-sleeping, bedsharing, and breastsleeping

  • Home study materials and deep dive recommendations (podcasts, documentaries, books, websites, etc.) for further exploration

  • Support with the setting of your birth, postpartum, and motherhood intentions

  • Creativity and journaling prompts that we can reflect on together, if desired

SERIES PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE:

  • 16 hours of mentorship in the form of eight two-hour class sessions, as well as home study opportunities to dive deeper into the topics we cover in class

  • A personalized learning experience

  • Knowledge as to how best prepare for a sovereign birth and postpartum experience regardless of where you are choosing to birth

  • The opportunity to set birthing and parenting intentions in a safe and sacred container

THIS SERIES IS INTENDED FOR:

  • Expecting mothers and fathers

  • Pre-conception mothers- and fathers-to-be

  • Aspiring doulas, midwives, and birthkeepers

  • Friends and family members who will be witnessing a loved one’s birth

  • Any woman who seeks a deeper understanding of the childbearing continuum, whether or not she plans to have children of her own

  • Families who believe that birth is a natural process that women were designed to feel fully in the interest of personal growth and expanding into the role of matriarch

TO REGISTER:

Please complete the following form to register. I will email you scheduling and payment instructions upon receiving your submission.

ABOUT KAITLIN COGHILL

Kaitlin Coghill, spiritual birthkeeper and holistic postpartum protectress, has served her community as a trained and certified birth and postpartum educator, mentor, photographer, and doula since 2013.

Having worked with a variety of birth-centered organizations, her support style is well-rounded and all-encompassing, allowing her to intuitively draw on various philosophies and strategies when helping parents venture forth into the realm of raising children. Her time spent in the birthing spaces and homes of new families has wholly enhanced her belief that birth is sacred and babies are teachers sent here to guide us into the new paradigm we are being asked to live within.

Kaitlin is also a designer, editor and published writer; you can view her portfolio here and subscribe to her Substack here.

When not working with families, Kaitlin writes, lives, and loves alongside her three homeschooled daughters and her husband in their hometown of Ventura.