Welcome and congratulations on seeking a coach to empower you thorughout your childbearing experience. The badge you clicked to arrive this page recognizes the provider you consider hiring as Birth Coach Merthod certified Transformational Birth Support Coach. Our graduates focus on empowering you to participate, show-up, and engage in your childbearing process with a sense of autonomy and agency, confident in your knowledge and capability. They coach you using well-established coaching strategies, principles and exercises that are field-specified to help expectant and new parents achieve their healthy, satisfying and empowering expereinces.
Childbearing facilitates reflection. Our changing bodies and the baby growing inside our bellies reveal our magnificence and insecurities -in equal measure.
I suspect although labeled "Natural," giving birth and becoming a parent is the most challenging human experience there is. Matrescence, the becoming of a mother, is scary. It's a hormone-dominant, body-altering, irreversible, confidence-challenging, and identity-shifting transformation.
The cultural and medical circumstances surrounding us from about seven weeks of pregnancy are fear-provoking, causing us to experience internal resistance to encounter what the process brings our way.
In my experience, fear is associated with contraction, anxiety, confusion, judgement, shame, withdrawal, bitterness, darkness, and ultimately death (the mother of all fears); all are in contrast with the physical and emotional expansion of childbearing.
But this journey, which involves significant physical, emotional, and psychological change, marking a transition from one stage of life to another, often brings a new level of insight, resilience, and empathy. Therefore, it calls for profound internal work that goes unrecognized. We can befriend the transformation, with its sensations, unpredictability, and unknown aspects, only through authentic discovery of who we are and what we internally resist. Once we embrace that childbirth calls us to wake up, grow up, and show up, our mindset will be ready to embrace our body's full potential and shift from fear reaction to conscious creation and taking charge throughout childbearing.
Transformational Birth Support Coaches recognize the internal work and help you embrace the transformation and your body's full potential.
“I can see clearly now that my clients get in tune with their own inner wisdom when I ask them questions instead of giving suggestions. It is so beautiful to see how empowering that is for the woman; that she carries the answer inside of her. Even though I know a lot about pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, she is still the one who knows her body, her values and her baby best. I love that I can support her in making decisions that align with her heart..."
And there you have it. We wouldn't do what we do if we didn't feel our graduates have the additional skills to help you go through pregnancy and childbirth with a lot more clarity and confidence, and enjoy healthier and more satisfying experiences. Therefore we encourage you to go back and take the next step by calling the birth professional whose website you found our badge on and get acquainted.
And please take with you many blessings from all of us at Birth Coach Method!
To YOUR Healthy and Positive Experience!
Neri Life-Choma,
Founder and Trainer