My Empowered Pregnancy eBook
Welcome to My Empowered Pregnancy eBook, your trusted guide to navigating pregnancy with confidence and autonomy. Created by Ann Morris, a certified birth and postpartum doula, this eBook equips you with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions, advocate for your choices, and create the birth experience you’ve always envisioned.
Packed with actionable insights and empowering exercises, this guide will help you build your birth plan, assemble your dream support team, and approach birth with clarity and confidence. Your journey to a more informed and empowered pregnancy begins here—let’s take the first step together!
What’s Included in My Empowered Pregnancy eBook
This comprehensive guide provides everything you need to navigate your pregnancy with confidence, autonomy, and clarity. Here's what you'll find inside:
What Is Your Why? Building Your Birth Vision
Define your “why” and create a clear birth vision.
Includes: Birth Vision Worksheet
The Three Decisions That Shape Everything
Explore key choices: physiological vs. medically managed birth, birth location, and care providers.
Includes: First Decisions Comparison Guide PDF
Conversations With Your Care Provider PDF
Creating Your Dream Team
Build a birth support team that respects your desires and boundaries.
Includes: Birth Support Team Worksheet
Foundation of Birth Mindset
Shift your mindset to see birth as a powerful rite of passage.
Includes: Birth Stories
The Birth of Modern Obstetrics
Understand the history of obstetrics and how it shapes today’s birthing landscape.
Understanding Your Birth Biases
Explore your beliefs about birth and how they impact your decisions.
Includes: Birth Biases Worksheet
The Illusion of Safety
Examine common myths and misconceptions about birth safety.
The Process of Making Informed Decisions
Tools to critically evaluate birth options and make empowered choices.
Developing Your Personal Autonomy
Strengthen your ability to advocate for your preferences and needs.
What is Radical Responsibility?
Learn how to take ownership of your birth experience.
What’s “Allowed” Versus Your Legal Rights
Know your rights in birth and how to stand firm in your decisions.
Included: Guide to Your Legal Rights in Birth
Advocating for Yourself in Birth
Tips and tools to communicate effectively with your care team.
Included: Guide to Saying "NO"
The Design of Physiological Birth
Explore the natural physiology of birth and how to work with it.
Included: Physiological Birth Blueprint
Supporting a Healthy Pregnancy
Key steps to maintain a healthy body and mind during pregnancy.
Included: Easy Diet Swaps for Higher Protein and Fat
Prenatal Tests and Uncommon Pregnancy Complications
Understand prenatal testing and prepare for less-common challenges
Included: Guide to Pregnancy Choices
Interactive Tools and Worksheets
Birth Vision Worksheet: Clarify your birth goals and motivations.
First Decisions Comparison Guide PDF: Compare options for birth type, location, and care provider.
Conversations With Your Care Provider PDF: Essential questions to ask your care provider, plus tools to assess their answers.
Birth Support Team Worksheet: Plan your support team and define their roles during your birth.
Birth Stories: 11 positive birth stories to illustrate how different and beautiful birth can be.
Birth Biases Worksheet: Gain more clarity about your pre-existing birth biases.
Guide to Your Legal Rights in Birth: Learn about the legal right of a patient to bodily integrity.
Guide to Saying "NO": Examine the implications of saying “yes” during your pregnancy and birth when you’d prefer to say “no.”
Physiological Birth Blueprint: Learn about the three stages of labor.
Easy Diet Swaps for Higher Protein and Fat: Getting the nutritional balance right.
Guide to Pregnancy Choices: Learn how to use the RAINBOW method for decision-making.
This eBook combines actionable information, interactive resources, and empowering insights to help you create a birth experience that reflects your unique needs and values.
Welcome to My Empowered Pregnancy eBook, your trusted guide to navigating pregnancy with confidence and autonomy. Created by Ann Morris, a certified birth and postpartum doula, this eBook equips you with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions, advocate for your choices, and create the birth experience you’ve always envisioned.
Packed with actionable insights and empowering exercises, this guide will help you build your birth plan, assemble your dream support team, and approach birth with clarity and confidence. Your journey to a more informed and empowered pregnancy begins here—let’s take the first step together!
What’s Included in My Empowered Pregnancy eBook
This comprehensive guide provides everything you need to navigate your pregnancy with confidence, autonomy, and clarity. Here's what you'll find inside:
What Is Your Why? Building Your Birth Vision
Define your “why” and create a clear birth vision.
Includes: Birth Vision Worksheet
The Three Decisions That Shape Everything
Explore key choices: physiological vs. medically managed birth, birth location, and care providers.
Includes: First Decisions Comparison Guide PDF
Conversations With Your Care Provider PDF
Creating Your Dream Team
Build a birth support team that respects your desires and boundaries.
Includes: Birth Support Team Worksheet
Foundation of Birth Mindset
Shift your mindset to see birth as a powerful rite of passage.
Includes: Birth Stories
The Birth of Modern Obstetrics
Understand the history of obstetrics and how it shapes today’s birthing landscape.
Understanding Your Birth Biases
Explore your beliefs about birth and how they impact your decisions.
Includes: Birth Biases Worksheet
The Illusion of Safety
Examine common myths and misconceptions about birth safety.
The Process of Making Informed Decisions
Tools to critically evaluate birth options and make empowered choices.
Developing Your Personal Autonomy
Strengthen your ability to advocate for your preferences and needs.
What is Radical Responsibility?
Learn how to take ownership of your birth experience.
What’s “Allowed” Versus Your Legal Rights
Know your rights in birth and how to stand firm in your decisions.
Included: Guide to Your Legal Rights in Birth
Advocating for Yourself in Birth
Tips and tools to communicate effectively with your care team.
Included: Guide to Saying "NO"
The Design of Physiological Birth
Explore the natural physiology of birth and how to work with it.
Included: Physiological Birth Blueprint
Supporting a Healthy Pregnancy
Key steps to maintain a healthy body and mind during pregnancy.
Included: Easy Diet Swaps for Higher Protein and Fat
Prenatal Tests and Uncommon Pregnancy Complications
Understand prenatal testing and prepare for less-common challenges
Included: Guide to Pregnancy Choices
Interactive Tools and Worksheets
Birth Vision Worksheet: Clarify your birth goals and motivations.
First Decisions Comparison Guide PDF: Compare options for birth type, location, and care provider.
Conversations With Your Care Provider PDF: Essential questions to ask your care provider, plus tools to assess their answers.
Birth Support Team Worksheet: Plan your support team and define their roles during your birth.
Birth Stories: 11 positive birth stories to illustrate how different and beautiful birth can be.
Birth Biases Worksheet: Gain more clarity about your pre-existing birth biases.
Guide to Your Legal Rights in Birth: Learn about the legal right of a patient to bodily integrity.
Guide to Saying "NO": Examine the implications of saying “yes” during your pregnancy and birth when you’d prefer to say “no.”
Physiological Birth Blueprint: Learn about the three stages of labor.
Easy Diet Swaps for Higher Protein and Fat: Getting the nutritional balance right.
Guide to Pregnancy Choices: Learn how to use the RAINBOW method for decision-making.
This eBook combines actionable information, interactive resources, and empowering insights to help you create a birth experience that reflects your unique needs and values.
Welcome to My Empowered Pregnancy eBook, your trusted guide to navigating pregnancy with confidence and autonomy. Created by Ann Morris, a certified birth and postpartum doula, this eBook equips you with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions, advocate for your choices, and create the birth experience you’ve always envisioned.
Packed with actionable insights and empowering exercises, this guide will help you build your birth plan, assemble your dream support team, and approach birth with clarity and confidence. Your journey to a more informed and empowered pregnancy begins here—let’s take the first step together!
What’s Included in My Empowered Pregnancy eBook
This comprehensive guide provides everything you need to navigate your pregnancy with confidence, autonomy, and clarity. Here's what you'll find inside:
What Is Your Why? Building Your Birth Vision
Define your “why” and create a clear birth vision.
Includes: Birth Vision Worksheet
The Three Decisions That Shape Everything
Explore key choices: physiological vs. medically managed birth, birth location, and care providers.
Includes: First Decisions Comparison Guide PDF
Conversations With Your Care Provider PDF
Creating Your Dream Team
Build a birth support team that respects your desires and boundaries.
Includes: Birth Support Team Worksheet
Foundation of Birth Mindset
Shift your mindset to see birth as a powerful rite of passage.
Includes: Birth Stories
The Birth of Modern Obstetrics
Understand the history of obstetrics and how it shapes today’s birthing landscape.
Understanding Your Birth Biases
Explore your beliefs about birth and how they impact your decisions.
Includes: Birth Biases Worksheet
The Illusion of Safety
Examine common myths and misconceptions about birth safety.
The Process of Making Informed Decisions
Tools to critically evaluate birth options and make empowered choices.
Developing Your Personal Autonomy
Strengthen your ability to advocate for your preferences and needs.
What is Radical Responsibility?
Learn how to take ownership of your birth experience.
What’s “Allowed” Versus Your Legal Rights
Know your rights in birth and how to stand firm in your decisions.
Included: Guide to Your Legal Rights in Birth
Advocating for Yourself in Birth
Tips and tools to communicate effectively with your care team.
Included: Guide to Saying "NO"
The Design of Physiological Birth
Explore the natural physiology of birth and how to work with it.
Included: Physiological Birth Blueprint
Supporting a Healthy Pregnancy
Key steps to maintain a healthy body and mind during pregnancy.
Included: Easy Diet Swaps for Higher Protein and Fat
Prenatal Tests and Uncommon Pregnancy Complications
Understand prenatal testing and prepare for less-common challenges
Included: Guide to Pregnancy Choices
Interactive Tools and Worksheets
Birth Vision Worksheet: Clarify your birth goals and motivations.
First Decisions Comparison Guide PDF: Compare options for birth type, location, and care provider.
Conversations With Your Care Provider PDF: Essential questions to ask your care provider, plus tools to assess their answers.
Birth Support Team Worksheet: Plan your support team and define their roles during your birth.
Birth Stories: 11 positive birth stories to illustrate how different and beautiful birth can be.
Birth Biases Worksheet: Gain more clarity about your pre-existing birth biases.
Guide to Your Legal Rights in Birth: Learn about the legal right of a patient to bodily integrity.
Guide to Saying "NO": Examine the implications of saying “yes” during your pregnancy and birth when you’d prefer to say “no.”
Physiological Birth Blueprint: Learn about the three stages of labor.
Easy Diet Swaps for Higher Protein and Fat: Getting the nutritional balance right.
Guide to Pregnancy Choices: Learn how to use the RAINBOW method for decision-making.
This eBook combines actionable information, interactive resources, and empowering insights to help you create a birth experience that reflects your unique needs and values.