Learning to Birth — Call for Speakers
Tags: Birth, Women, Motherhood, Health, Pregnancy

Introducing a new online birth education platform “Learning to Birth” where expectant mums learn from experts how to give birth calmly, easily, on time, at home or in hospital — your way and on your terms.

Hi, I’m Akasha. I’m creating a global online platform called “Learning to birth.”

I’m creating this platform because I have a dream for womenkind. What if we don’t just go to experts to birth our baby. What if we learn from experts how to birth our baby — for ourselves?

If you’re an expert who teaches women how to have amazing, positively life-changing, empowering births, I’d like to invite you as a speaker and teacher. Fill out our expression of interest form!

A decade ago, I went to the hospital for my first birth. I went what I thought of as prepared — with a birth plan and an intention for a natural birth. But just because birth is “natural”, doesn’t mean it’s a good experience for mum or baby.

Birth can be an incredible experience. A mum-to-be shouldn’t have to put up with the possibility of anything less.

That birth taught me if you go into a birth not trusting yourself to know how to birth, the people who are there to help won’t trust you, either.

I learnt that day that the first step to being a mum is to trust — ourselves.

Trust our bodies, our knowings, our hearts.

So, for my next birth, I read even more books, even more articles. I consciously chose other women who’d had positive birth experiences as my role models. If they could do it, so could I!

Belief in myself and my body was the key. This second time, I had the confidence to ask for what was best for my body and baby even when so-called “experts” yelled at me to make me do what they wanted. I said no. I resisted. I was strong — because I and my body were a team.

This new platform will be for women around the world to access wherever they are, whatever their age, whatever their stage of the journey to birth.

It’s going to provide often hard to find information from a host of experts who teach valuable skills like:

How to give birth without tearing

How to give birth easily

How to give birth quicker (yes, it is possible to actually learn this)

How to give birth calmly

How to give birth at home

How to give birth by C-Section

How to give birth on time

Are these the skills an expectant mother would like to learn? YES!

My first birth was a bit of a mess.

Next time around, I chose to consciously choose a different birth by teaching myself how to birth so I could have the most empowered, ecstatic birth that was possible for me.

I analyzed my first birth minute by minute, hour by hour. I committed to turning things around. I sought out the skills I’d been missing. Second time around I gave myself a birth where:

I gave birth on the due date (exactly)

I gave birth after only 1 hour of active labour (exactly)

I gave birth easily, and calmly

I gave birth ecstatically

And with barely a graze

All this after I’d been told that I’d never give birth naturally again.

I don’t want any woman to have to go through the physical and emotional trauma I went through from my first birth. It took many years to forgive myself for not looking after myself to protect myself during those hours.

The information about how to birth is out there — but it’s fragmented, and not available as a comprehensive resource, and there’s a lot of judgment about right and wrong birth being pushed upon women who are just looking for information about what their body is capable of doing.

We’re adult women here — we know things don’t always go to plan. They didn’t even in my second birth — I went to the hospital, after planning a home birth. And I’m glad I did.

Because I’d learnt how to birth, I was able to make that choice. I knew, in my body, what was best for me and my baby to achieve the best outcome we could in the circumstances life presented us.

If you consider yourself as an expert teaching women how to give birth in ways that make them feel incredibly worthy, empowered, alive, and strong— however they do it — I would like to hear from you.

I’m going to be inviting teachers that I learned most from during my journey, and I’d like to open the invitation to the world’s top teachers too. You’ll be interviewed by me, a person with 20 years of experience in events and media, who is also committed to empowering women through all aspects of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

There is always something more to learn about birth.

If you are a birth educator, wherever you are in the world, please use the form speaker.learningtobirth.com. If successful I will contact you to interview you for our next upcoming Learning to Birth webinar.

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