The Body is Ready, The Baby is Spun… What About Your Clients’ Mindset
As birth support professionals, we know the tremendous impact that physical preparation can have on the birthing process. We encourage clients to prepare their bodies through alignment work, often referring them to chiropractors or craniosacral therapists for physical alignment and balance. We also share Spinning Babies® techniques to promote optimal fetal positioning—powerful tools that can make labor more efficient and often increase the likelihood of a vaginal birth.
These physiological strategies are invaluable. In fact, I’ve personally gained the trust of medical staff in high-stakes moments—such as performing a forward-leaning inversion for a client with an epidural—that directly contributed to a successful vaginal delivery.
And yet, after 25 years of supporting and educating countless expectant individuals, I’ve learned something vital: the body and the baby are only part of the picture. The third pillar is mindset—a critical, yet often overlooked, element of preparation for the profound transformation of the perinatal journey.
Why Mindset Matters
Just as body alignment is crucial, so too is the alignment between a client’s beliefs, wishes, and actions
Even the most physically prepared client can still encounter what I call “success blockers”:
- Fear of pain, interventions, or losing control
- Doubts about the birthing person’s abilities
- Overwhelm when navigating the medical system
- Tension or conflict with family members
- Old stories or past traumas resurfacing prenatally
These are more than typical “challenges.” They are roadblocks that can derail a healthy birth experience—even when the body is ready and the baby is positioned well. Unless these inner barriers are addressed, physical readiness can only take clients so far.
This is where perinatal coaching conversations become transformative: by helping clients uncover, reframe, and move beyond these success blockers, we prepare them not just for labor but for a more empowered perinatal journey.
Expanding Our Role
Our role as birth support professionals must extend beyond the physical. Just as body alignment is crucial, so too is the alignment between a client’s beliefs, wishes, and actions—all of which shape their experience of birth.
This is where perinatal coaching strategies and exercises make all the difference. Through a series of perinatal coaching sessions, we can transform clients’ experiences. As Transformational Perinatal Coaches, we ensure mind and body are prepared in harmony, offering a truly holistic approach.
Birth Support Pros gain coaching skills and learn to apply field-specific coaching exercises
By coaching clients to explore their beliefs, fears, motivations, and strengths, we help them release what holds them back—so they can enter their childbearing process with clarity, confidence, and resilience.
Over the past seven years, I’ve developed and taught an innovative coaching framework that gives birth support professionals a complete toolkit of coaching strategies and exercises to help clients discover and align:
- Their desired birth and postpartum experiences with their motivations.
- Their core beliefs and strengths, alongside the fears and challenges they carry.
- Their current circumstances with an actionable plan that resolves barriers and supports their vision of a healthy, empowered birth.
Prenatal Coaching: The Missing Piece
Birth Support Professionals who train in my program, Transformational Perinatal Coaching, gain coaching skills and learn to apply field-specific coaching exercises throughout the perinatal journey. These include:
- The wheel of bringing life
- The wheel of life after birth
- From fear reaction to confidence creation
- Coaching with GROW and other models
- Identifying limiting beliefs exercise
- Coaching for an agency with the hierarchy of the knowledge pyramid
- Coaching couples for a strengthened partnership
- And many more strategies and exercises!
Each exercise is designed to equip birth support professionals to coach their clients toward clarity, agency, and confidence—empowering them to step into birth and postpartum fully prepared and supported.
The Full Circle of Mind-Body Readiness
As birth support professionals, we know that physical readiness is essential. But mindset is just as important. When we address both body and mind, we offer clients truly holistic preparation: Body, Baby, and Mindset.
This is how we empower expectant and new parents to navigate the childbearing process mentally and emotionally, ready to face the unpredictable and embrace it with clarity and confidence.
✨ Next Step for Professionals:
Would you like to incorporate this into your practice? Transformational Perinatal Coaching continuing education subscription, you can join today. In addition to visiting the website to learn more about the program, you can read more on my blog and even click here to schedule a 20-minute one-on-one consultation with me.
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