Absolutely. In fact, much of what I teach directly applies or speaks to hospital birth, because the vast majority of Western women birth in a hospital. If you’re looking for a positive hospital birth, this course is absolutely for you.

This course is still hugely important! Many women do find improved outcomes in home birth (and I am a huge home birth advocate), but we still need to prepare. And internally, much is the same; the process of birth, our biological requirements, the conditioning we’ve experienced, and for many the ‘unlearning’ process still needs to be done. Not to mention, unnecessary interventions can still occur in homebirths. Knowing what is normal is important.

Firstly, I’m so sorry. And you’re not alone. Unfortunately, there is no crystal ball that can predict how our birth will unfold, but too many women are experiencing trauma in our birthing environments, and much of it is avoidable.

This course is designed to prepare you as best as I can, with tools, practices and information that I’ve used with many women, who have said how helpful they found them.

There are so many factors that come into play with our births, and one of the first steps in improving outcomes for ourselves is becoming aware of what we need and what can help or hinder this. This course should absolutely support you to feel prepared and confident that your body can do this. It can also help us to make sense of what happened last time, and where some key elements can be done differently this time to help us change the experience and outcomes. 

This course can also help us to understand our bodies, our hearts and how to work with the process, even if we are scared or finding the birth painful. There is no singular ‘right’ way to do this, and birth certainly doesn’t look the same for everyone – which is absolutely ok. 

My aim in this course is to help you feel confident in trusting that you know your body best, and that you can make the decisions that are right for you and your baby…even if that didn’t work out in times before. Understanding what you biologically need is a crucial starting place, and working through your own fears with a strong context of our birthing environments is very important.

I do gently encourage you to seek as much support to heal your trauma as you can during this time. You are absolutely deserving of healing and restoration. 

That is a little bit up to you. The weekly calls go for 2 hours each, though occasionally questions make us go a little over, and in between I encourage you to read the relevant sections of your workbook, to really maximise what you can get out of this course.

The workbook is generally gone through pretty quickly, and then it’s up to you whether you want to go through any extra info I talk about during the calls – that part is completely optional!

You will get access to private community group immediately. Once you enrol, you will get an email from our membership software with all the important info for the course, including confirming the start date. 

This course may not be for you. Going with the flow is a wonderful ideal, and trusting or believing you can do this is an excellent first step, but neither of these approaches change the fact that our birthing system does not offer natural birth as standard and deep preparation is required for birth.

Birth may be natural, and you may already have everything you need to be able to birth, but the power of conditioning and our brain can derail these instincts, and so can our chosen place of birth. 

The way we live and birth today is the opposite of natural, from the foods we eat to the lifestyles we lead, and most certainly the environments and conditions in which we birth. If we want to make this process as smooth and positive as possible, we absolutely need to do the preparation. This is not a time when crossing our fingers and ‘just trusting’ is enough. 

Once you’ve prepared? Absolutely; let go, trust, and allow the process to unfold. But you’ll be going with the flow knowing how to navigate the waters, instead of jumping in blind.

That really depends on you and the hospital class. I highly recommend going to your hospital classes even if you do my course, as being familiar with your birthing environment is really important for facilitating a smoother birth. It’s also very important to know what your hospital considers ‘normal’.

I can say that The Birth Code is very in depth and covers the real drivers in birth and how to work with them, actual (and practical!) birthing skills, including a lot of non-pharmacological pain relief, and many other aspects not commonly taught in a hospital class. 

Many women have commented that their hospital class didn’t teach them anything about how to actually have the baby, what to do or what their partner should do. Others have said that they had absolutely no idea that new baby life would be as it was, and wished their classes had helped them prepare better. While I know many excellent birth educators offering lovely hospital programs, the frequency with which I hear these comments suggests that this course offers aspects that are not covered in some standard hospital classes. The feedback I receive is that women appreciate their hospital classes but feel they are not quite offering enough preparation.

I highly recommend all birthing people attend their hospital classes regardless. It’s important to know what is standard practice in your local hospital, and to be familiar with where you need to go and what you need to do. You should also be able to draw from the fabulous experience of the midwives offering the course, and this is invaluable!

Many women do remark that The Birth Code filled in many of the gaps and gave them a deeper, more confident birth preparation that helped them understand their options, what their body needed and what to do with that.