Online self study modules

Your online self study modules are designed to give you space to develop your knowledge, build your reflective practice and your business.

Self study course content:

  • The importance of boundaries in birth work and unpacking and reframing our own fears and experiences of birth. The need for independent, inclusive birth work.

  • A thorough understanding of birth physiology and biomechanics of birth so you understand how the human body gives birth and how to explain this to others.

  • Understanding the birth within an industrial medicalised system - including induction, assisted delivery, pain management options

  • The importance of advocacy - how to listen and help the people you work with express their views so they are heard.

  • Practical skills for supporting pregnancy and the birth process - your toolkit for optimising birth environment and physiology

  • How to carve out your career in birth work.

  • How to support families through the 4th Trimester (including supporting infant feeding, newborn behaviour, safe sleeping)

  • All the business know how you need to attract the right clients, price and market your services, safe lone working practices and GDPR