In this one-hour, interactive webinar, Brittany Sharpe McCollum will guide participants in exploring how laboring people can facilitate progress in labor by creating space within the three planes of the pelvis. Participants will visualize simple ways of connecting pelvic movement to the station of the baby. Emphasis will be placed on better understanding the relationship between labor positions and movements to encourage the baby's descent and rotation. Movement will be explored in both big and small ways, with a focus on supporting both medicated and unmedicated births in reducing unnecessary intervention through a biomechanical approach. Although the approach is completely non-clinical, this evidence-based content can easily be incorporated into the practices of both clinical and non-clinical labor support with the intention of restoring autonomy to the laboring person and supporting the physiological process. 

Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze contact hour and 1.0 hour of CNE through CBRN; approved provider #15932.

A thorough understanding of physiological, emotional and psychological processes has been proven to have a great impact on pregnant women's birthing experiences. Challenges in birth often stem from a lack of flow in the birth energy, which in turn can get minimized when the mother has familiarity and an understanding of her body, as well as the empowering tools available to her. 

Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze contact hour and 1.0 hour of CNE from CBRN, approved provider #15932.

Despite significant reductions in global maternal mortality rates, obstetric violence, mistreatment, and poor quality care are insidious in hospitals around the world. In response, community-based midwives are opening and operating midwifery centers, that provide gynecological, prenatal, birth, postpartum and many other services in response to their community's needs. In this presentation Cristina will explore her experience opening, operating, and supporting the expansion of community led care models that serve the needs of birthing families all over the world.

Additional birth center resources can be found at https://goodbirth.net/resources/ 

Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hour and 1.0 hour of CNE.

From Evidence to Practice will review recent evidence that demonstrates childbirth education is a strategy to achieve state and national health objectives. This presentation will review evidence about inequities in access and disparities in outcomes that may be occurring in your program. Attendees will learn to use the Structure Content Function framework to identify opportunities to achieve health equity and improve the quality of their childbirth education program. 

Participants may earn .50 Lamaze Contact Hours.

Research shows that the excess force from long periods of breath holding while sustaining pushing and pushing in an uncoordinated way may be harmful to the perineum, resulting in tears and weaker pelvic floor muscles, months or years after birth. This class will cover the relationship between the baby and the pelvis and the role of the pelvic floor in birth. Education on physiological 2nd stage of labor and how to push with or without an epidural and how to best to protect the pelvic floor and core to minimize damage. This presentation will provide an overview of physiologic 2nd stage, some birth positions, and breath for the different phases of pushing. 

Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hour and 1.0 hour of CNE (through CBRN) for attending this webinar and completing the participant evaluation. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 15932 for 1.0 contact hours.