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There’s a crucial conversation missing from the birth world.

 

Yes, birth works. 

 

It’s a biological, physiological process that has ensured the survival of our species since the beginning of time.

 

Sometimes it’s enough to simply hunker down, get out of the way, and roar your baby out.

 

But what about when birth *doesn’t* work the way you planned?

What about the women who felt like their babies just “couldn’t come down?”

 

What about the women who protected their hormonal blueprint, worked through their emotional blocks, stayed home, and still felt like their baby couldn't rotate and/or their birth just wasn't "progressing"?
 
 
What about the women who felt like they were working against their body (or their bodies were working against them)?

 

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Birth can be long, hard, and extremely trying. It often is. This isn’t a problem to be solved.

 

But birth can also be easeful. And there are some similarities that we see in the births that are.

 

These similarities are often biomechanical.

 

There are a myriad of hormonal, emotional, spiritual, and psychological components that accompany the biological process of birth.

 

But the truth is, birth is largely a biomechanical process, meaning it is a process that requires dynamic movement in the body. 

Birth requires the baby to be able to move and rotate through and down and out.

 

And the ability of the baby to descend has everything to do with the bony and soft tissues of the maternal pelvis. 

 

Can they yield to the baby? Can they rotate the baby? Can they move the baby through and down and out?

 

In our modern culture, many of us are suffering the consequences of a static and stagnant lifestyle, devoid of functional female movement. Even if we are moving a lot and prioritize our fitness, we can unknowingly restrict our healthy pelvic mobility.

 

And many midwives, OBs, and birth keepers don’t fully understand the biomechanics of how babies move down, or how to support them in pregnancy or in birth.

In this free class, you'll learn about:

  • How physiological birth is the symphony between biomechanics and the hormonal matrix 

  • The biomechanical process of birth - what movements the maternal pelvis needs to do, and how baby actually moves down

  • How certain actions can help or hinder the optimal unfolding of the birth process

  • The current trend of hands-off, non-manual birth support, ranging from obstetrics, midwifery, to birthkeepers, and why this matters

  • How the female pelvis moves the baby down and out of the body

  • Resources and opportunities to deepen your study in birth biomechanics

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In this free class, you’ll learn:

  • How to teach to the action, not the posture

  • How the female pelvis takes the brunt of inaccurate cueing, and what to do about it

  • Cues that I have retired for good, and ones that are the star of the show

  • My female body cue makeover, for a standing pose and a floor based pose (I’ll teach one pose of each) 

  • What questions to ask yourself, or your students, when adjusting/practicing a pose

  • Why the “you should feel it here” does more harm than good

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About Adelaide Meadow:

Adelaide is a female physiology academic, movement teacher, bodyworker, and homebirth attendant. She approaches women’s health, birth, movement, and women's culture from a physiological perspective, and believes in the genius of the body and the brilliance of women. Her professional contributions are at the intersection of birth, movement, and biomechanics, and how physiological birth requires physiological womanhood. She is a sought-after teacher, leader, and speaker on women's health and women's culture.

Who is this class for?

  • Birth workers, midwives, and doulas who are interested in learning how to best support birth biomechanics

  • Chiropractors, craniosacral therapists, massage therapists, prenatal yoga teachers or anyone who works with mothers and babies

  • Women interested in learning more about the biomechanical process of birth

  • VBAC moms or any women who are unpacking their first birth and planning for their next

  • Pregnant women who really want to know how to move better to allow the birth to happen easefully 

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Babies know how to be born. 

But do you know how to create space for baby?

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