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Prenatal, Childbirth, and Postpartum Educator

Prenatal, Childbirth, & Postpartum Educator Course Description We must empower mothers throughout their Season of Childbearing. "I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it." -- Rose Kennedy

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A note from Ginger ~ I am passionate about PYT, but of all the programs I believe the Childbirth Educator program is the most important. Why? Because it facilitates the health of the next generation ~ the very future of our planet. I live and teach these methods to women, and have used these methods many times over, including during my own pregnancies and births. I believe health care professionals are in the best position to manage the complex but natural state of pregnancy and postpartum. It is this belief which led me to author a program which took western medicine and blended some eastern methods with it. Your background in patient evaluation, interaction, and management, not to mention your extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, developmental psychology, and biomechanics give you a distinct advantage and an expertise that allows for highly critical analysis and application in the classroom. I am the sole teacher of this program, as a physical therapist, childbirth educator, professional yoga therapist, athletic trainer, and women's health specialist.

Course Description The journey to and season of motherhood is a beautiful rite of passage, connecting the mother to her unborn baby in every way — physically, emotionally, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. However, in America today I believe we are in danger of losing the Birth Experience. This course weds eastern and western methods, including rehabilitation, Chinese medicine, Medical Yoga Therapy, Sound Therapy, Color Therapy, & Ayurveda. Alternative modalities are used in order to emerge with a holistic, yet research backed, method. Yoga is a large part of the education process, namely because the Union that yoga provides is a wonderful method to promote bonding between mother and baby and to facilitate ideal prenatal and postpartum health.

There are 4 major sections in the Prenatal, Labor Coaching, and Postpartum Yoga Therapy text.

Audience PT's, OT's, PTA's, COTA's, ATC's, RN's, FNP's, Physicians, CNM’s, Yoga Therapists & Teachers, and anyone who works with expectant mothers.

Continuing Education Units: 30 CE