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BellyBelly's The Truth About Natural Birth is a powerful video-based program designed to help you:
* Have the safest birth possible for you and your baby
* Have a birth without unnecessary interventions
* Understand and work through giving birth in the current (overworked) maternity system.
When it comes to birth, there are so many choices to make.
There are birth plans to consider, expectations to manage (yours, and worse, other people's!), some degree of fear, various options to bear in mind, and a whole medical system to navigate.
At BellyBelly, we're here to help you prepare for birth in a way that leaves you informed, empowered and completely supported so you can make the right choices for YOU and your baby.
Choices that give you a better chance at having a safe AND natural birth, with a healthy baby in your arms, having avoided serious interventions or major surgery.
The Truth About Natural Birth brings you the leading birth experts and medical professionals to empower you to have a choice how your birth goes and what is right for your baby.
"I purchased access to the video series and I have to say this was amazing – very very informative – I loved it!" - Debbie B (verified customer)
- Be armed with the right information and your rights as a woman and mother in the current hospital birthing system
- Understand the safe and natural alternatives to synthetic hormones, and the standard surgical approach to birth
- Learn practical strategies and tools for you and your partner to be confident and have peace of mind in the lead up to your big day
- Easy to understand video format, so you can learn in your own time, with no overwhelm, endless books to read and no medical knowledge needed.
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Note: The Truth About Natural Birth was formerly named the BellyBelly Immersion, an event we filmed to allow everyone around the world to have access to such amazing birth information!
Know How To Work With Pain And Support Birthing Women:
Featured Presenter RHEA DEMPSEY
Rhea Dempsey is the foremost expert on natural birth in Australia. In fact, when midwives, doctors and paramedics want natural births, they attend Rhea's classes.
Rhea is an (often booked out!) birth speaker, childbirth educator, counsellor and author, and is one of Australia's most experienced doula trainers. Rhea has attended more than 1,000 births in hospitals and at home.
In The Truth About Natural Birth, Rhea explains what you need to know to be fully prepared to give birth, what to expect when entering a mainstream public or private hospital, and how to overcome barriers to a natural and safe birth that is right for you and your baby.
Rhea debunks the common misconceptions around birth and teaches highly effective strategies for dealing with labour pain.
Prepare Your Partner & Dealing With Stress
Featured Therapist JARED OSBORNE
Men’s Coach and Transformative Psychotherapist Jared Osborne, has been featured on ABC television on multiple occasions teaching men about sex, relationships, and being grounded in themselves as men and fathers.
In the Truth About Natural Birth, Jared shares practical strategies for men in the birthing room, how they can be present and truly support you through labor to set you both up for success.
You’ll also learn:
Three of the biggest issues that affect relationships (particularly men) during pregnancy and after the birth.
Find out about some of the biggest changes and challenges that most couples don’t expect, and how to stay connected and kick butt as new parents.
Getting The Best Out Of Your Hospital Birth Experience
Featured Obstetrician Dr. RAVI KASHYAP
Pro-Choice and Woman-Friendly Doctor: Dr. Ravi Kashyap is an obstetrician and gynaecologist.
His philosophy supports natural labour as much as possible, while having the skills and experience to cope with any emergency or complication that may arise.
Dr. Kashyap supports VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section) and vaginal birth of twins.
In The Truth About Natural Birth, Dr. Kashyap shares how to have a more empowering birth in a hospital setting.
Choosing Your Birth Environment
Featured Midwife BELINDA HENKEL
Belinda Henkel has been a midwife since 1986. She has worked as a midwife in hospitals and birth centres (both private and public) and now supports women to birth at home.
With many raving fans as well as requests to speak at birth events, Belinda is a much loved and in-demand midwife.
In The Truth About Natural Birth, Belinda shares tips and insights from an experienced and wise midwife.
Belinda also de-bunks myths and misconceptions about giving birth at home.
How To Have A Shorter, More Effective Labour & Birth
Featured Birth Speaker & Trainer:
GINNY PHANG-DAVEY
Ginny Phang-Davey has 15 years experience as a doula and has helped deliver more than 1200 babies. She is also a Spinning Babies approved trainer since 2015.
In The Truth About Natural Birth, Ginny shares how you can have an easier, shorter, more relaxed and comfortable birth through body balancing techniques, maternal rest-smart positions and other daily pregnancy essentials.
Ginny also demonstrates techniques which you can practice at home to be in touch with your body and better facilitate your baby’s starting position in the womb for labour.
How To Encourage Labour & Get Natural Pain Relief
Featured Chinese Medicine Doctor
DR CHRIS TANG
More than 10 years ago, Chris began working with (a lot of!) pregnant women at the BellyBelly Pregnancy Centre.
Due to the skill and expertise he developed in this area, midwives and pregnant women now flock to see him whenever they want to get labour moving, have breech babies or other issues.
Chris comes highly recommended in pregnancy and birth circles, as a ‘birthy’ go-to Doctor of Chinese Medicine.
Prepare For The Hours and Days After Birth
Featured Birth Educator LAEL STONE
Every New Mama’s Best Friend: Lael Stone, Birth Educator, Aware Parenting Instructor
In The Truth About Natural Birth, Lael shares what new mamas need to thrive in their role coping with crying and reduced sleep.
You'll also learn why self-care is critical to your mental health as a new mother – and how to do it with a newborn Forming a new tribe and integrating your new mother identity.
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Video 1: The State Of Birth Today
What you'll learn: What's going on with birth today? It's not a pretty picture. Find out what's really going on in the birth room, and know your rights and options for childbirth. You CAN give birth and not be part of the awful statistics - if you implement what you learn from The Truth About Natural Birth. Presented by Rhea Dempsey.
Video 2: The Perfect Storm
What you'll learn: Learn what hurdles you will encounter giving birth in the system, which can totally de-rail your birth plan. We'll teach you how to navigate modern hospitals and avoid those out of control unnecessary interventions, which are adding risk where there needn't be any. Presented by Rhea Dempsey.
Video 3: Body Balancing
What you'll learn: When your pelvis, uterus and ligaments are balanced and aligned, you increase your chances of a smoother, more efficient and easier labour. Discover effective, natural methods (start during pregnancy and use during labour) to increase your chances of a straight-forward birth, free of complications. Presented by Ginny Phang-Davey.
Video 4: Pain Dynamics
What you'll learn: Understand what you and your baby will go through, and understand what’s normal. Learn what factors can make birth more painful, and what can help ease labour pain. An important video for partners to understand if they want to support you as best possible. Presented by Rhea Dempsey.
What you'll learn: Understand what you and your baby will go through, and understand what’s normal. Learn what factors can make birth more painful, and what can help ease labour pain. An important video for partners to understand if they want to support you as best possible. Presented by Rhea Dempsey.
Video 5: Effective Acupressure Points For Labour
What you'll learn: Learn the specific acupressure points which are safe and effective for encouraging labour and relieving labour pain, as well as a great point for breastmilk production. Presented by Dr Chris Tang.
Video 6: Birth Support Skills For Partners & Family
What you'll learn: Truly set up your partner and support people for success. In this video, they'll level up their birth support skills beyond handholding and telling you to just breathe. With effective, more skilled birth support, you and your partner's experience of birth and the outcomes you get will be significantly better. Presented by Rhea Dempsey.
Video 7: How To Achieve The Birth You Want In Hospital
What you'll learn: What you need to know about giving birth in a hospital and how to choose the RIGHT hospital and the right team to be around you. Presented by Dr Ravi Kashyap.
Video 8: How Partners Can Get Grounded & Present
What you'll learn: You'll learn a simple but very effective tool to help calm yourself quickly if you're getting stressed or anxious in the birth room, or at home. Find out how to quickly get grounded and present, when it matters the most. Presented by Jared Osbourne.
Video 9: The Biggest Lessons After Decades Of Supporting Birthing Women
What you'll learn: Presented by midwife, Belinda Henkel.
Video 10: Birth Q&A Session
What you'll learn: Audience Q&As with Dr Ravi Kashyap, Rhea Dempsey and Belinda Henkel.
What you'll learn: Audience Q&As with Dr Ravi Kashyap, Rhea Dempsey and Belinda Henkel.
Video 11: The Fourth Trimester
What you'll learn: Learn about the all important post-birth period, from giving birth to the first three months, known as the fourth trimester. It'll make a significant difference to how you and your partner experience parenthood, and how calm and settled your baby will be.
Having surveyed many of our readers, we know there's a lot of fear of birth out there - fear of pain, fear of it all going wrong, and fear of the unknown.
We totally get it - when it comes to birth there's so much information AND MIS-information out there! It's a question conundrum... should you have any kind of intervention like inductions, c-sections, epidurals, synthetic hormones, drugs, forceps, vacuums, episiotomies and more?
Or should you go completely au-natural?
What if things go right? Or wrong?
And in a Western medical system is it even your choice?
Yes. It is your choice.
And yes, these things are sometimes absolutely necessary for the health and well being of mother and baby. Of course, we're advocates for that before all else!
However, statistics show these interventions are often well over used and unnecessary.
So much so, it can make birth more stressful (and even more risky) than needed for both mother and baby.
So What Is The Answer?
Simply:
Be prepared... with the RIGHT information.
As the mother-to-be, you do get a say. But so many give over that say to the doctors, midwives or obstetric nurses around them, because they are simply not as informed as they could be.
Sadly this results in an emphasis on using drugs and artificial intervention for your birth, no matter it’s appropriate for you or not.
And that's where BellyBelly's The Truth About Natural Birth comes in to help you.
Each month we support some 1-2 MILLION women (and men) as they explore their options, search for information and navigate their committed goal for a safe, healthy and wherever possible, natural birth.
You know what we've found?
Regardless of whether you come from America, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Europe, Asia or anywhere else…
Everyone feels comfortable with different levels of medical support and intervention or natural birth considerations - and that's perfectly okay!
For example, some people feel completely secure giving birth in the medical system, and others relish the idea of a home water birth. But the majority sit somewhere in the middle!
However, everyone has one thing in common:
Mothers-to-be and fathers-to-be out there, people just like you, ideally, want a natural birth with the least amount of intervention possible.
That's why BellyBelly's The Truth About Natural Birth was created - to ensure you can achieve exactly that, in the best possible way - prepared, educated and ready to go.
We look forward to supporting you to a better birth experience!
Why We Created The Truth About Natural Birth
It’s taken me 20 years... giving birth to three children, becoming a registered doula, birth writer, and founder of one of the biggest pregnancy websites on the internet to know what I know now, and to be able to bring this program to you.
I’ve experienced an induced birth (and the postnatal depression that followed), with my first baby. After that, I learnt what synthetic labour hormones and drugs had done to my body.
I then had two subsequent births where I went into labour based on my baby's own timing, without artificial hormones. The difference I felt in my self esteem, confidence as a mother, and connection to my children was nothing short of a revelation.
You don’t have to have one or two births to have this realisation or to go through depression or unnecessary surgery. You can have it now, before your baby is born.
Even if you genuinely need a c-section, an induction or other type of assisted birth, being equipped with this information, you’ll know you gave it the very best chance you could for a natural, joyful birth experience.
So, are you ready to level-up your birth knowledge, so you can have a safer birth with less intervention?
So, are you ready to level-up your birth knowledge, so you can have a safer birth with less intervention?
You won't find this information in hospital-based birth classes.
If you do - then I'll give you your money back, no questions asked.
Because I know this is critical information that you won't be getting from your hospital.
For the first time, I'm making the full Truth About Natural Birth Program available for only $27 (usually $297)
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