The best laid plans...
What is your birth vision? Make a plan to help guide you through your journey. Carolyn and her guest April Kline, founder of Birth With Spirit Doulas, discuss the process of making a birth plan, and why it’s important to determine your priorities ahead of time. It’s crucial for you to feel empowered and remember that all choices are yours.
“I like birth plans that go like this: I am a reasonable, intelligent human being. Before anything is done to me, I would like to have it be a discussion. Period. That can be your birth plan.”
About Our Guest
April Kline is a Certified Professional Midwife with a Masters in Midwifery. She is also certified in prenatal massage, newborn and infant massage and will soon complete her certification to be a Lactation Consultant. April graduated from the Healing Hands Institute in New Jersey in 2001. She is certified through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork, is a second-degree Craniosacral bodyworker with the Upledger Institute, and is also a Reiki Master and teacher. She has studied Shiatsu at the Ohashi Institute, and has also studied Somatoemotional Release, birth trauma resolution, Therapeutic Touch, Myofascial Release and Reflexology.
April is a born educator, teaching at the Midwives College of Utah in both the undergrad and graduate departments for ten years with a specialty in nutrition and mother-baby bonding and also walking people through NOURISH, a 28-day reset she developed that helps people balance their hormones, heal their guts, remove brain fog, reduce systemic inflammation, and achieve their ideal weight while regaining energy and vitality.
April is also the founder and creator of the Birth With Spirit Doula Certification training program that promotes grounded, whole-person pregnancy, birth and postpartum support.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Creating Your Birth Plan - American Pregnancy The Bump Birth Plan Tool - The Bump The Important of a Birth Plan - Mayo Clinic Using BRAIN Acronym for Informed Choices - Doula Toothers
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