Blossom & Berry Professional 40 Days of Love Post Natal Guide
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A parent’s experience of the first forty days following the birth of their child will impact greatly upon their health and wellbeing for the next forty years. This is a crucial window of time in which a postpartum parent needs to be nurtured, nourished, supported and held in order to recover well and thrive in their new role.
Mel Craven is a Doula and Mental Health Social Worker, who has created a course for Blossom and Berry which celebrates, honors, encourages and protects this very important parent baby relationship. That acknowledges the importance of this time for slowing down, allowing space for adjusting to the new parenting role, healing, rest and rejuvenation during the first six weeks.
The importance of The First 40 Days
Babies whose needs for closeness and comfort are responded to and lovingly met grow up to be happier and more confident adults than those whose needs were ignored.
Likewise, mothers/parents who have their needs met during the postpartum period are much more likely to be healthy and emotionally balanced later on, with less incidence of perinatal anxiety and post natal depression.
Support for the Birth Partners
What Will I Learn On This Course?
You will learn how to prepare traditional postpartum meals, support a parent’s physical healing and breastfeeding/chestfeeding journey and create a postpartum sanctuary.
We will take you on a trip around the world learning from many culture’s different postpartum practices, weaving them in to a nurturing model which honors the parent and surrounds them in a cocoon of love as they adjust to their new way of being as a parent in the world.
Included is an introduction to traditional rebozo techniques, and bodywork.
What Will We Cover?
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Is This Training For You?
Yes, if you:
By training as a 40 Days of Love Guide you will be able support pregnant people and their family to plan for their 40 Days postpartum recovery, including how to get adequate rest, nutrition and social support. You will also learn how to create a love bubble for parent and baby to bond, connect and establish breastfeeding in the first forty days after birth.
You will understand the anatomical and physiological changes that occur in the postpartum body and learn 40 Days of Love practices to support postpartum healing, including recovery after a Caesarean Section.
You will be able to identify what postpartum changes are normal and what are serious complications that require referral to a specialist or urgent medical care, such as deep vein thrombosis, postpartum hemorrhage, pre eclampsia, or uterine prolapse, Diastasis Recti, and pelvic floor health.
This course provides you with an understanding of the anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding and chestfeeding, including resources and information to assist you to support a parent on their individual and unique nursing journey. You will learn about latch and positioning, complications like mastitis and where to direct a parent to get more help.
You will study different cultures around the world, and learn which foods are especially encouraged to be consumed by the postpartum mother to promote healing and to restore health, including recipes to share with or cook for your clients.
You will learn about and explore the benefits of physical warmth and loving touch practices including vaginal steaming, herbal baths and abdominal massage. At the end of this course you will also be able to provide evidence based information to new parents about co-sleeping and bed sharing so that they can be empowered to choose practices that are in alignment with their own family and cultural values.
How Is The Training Delivered?
The course is available online and is self paced study in your own time. You have lifetime access to all resources. As ever with our courses you are free to express yourself authentically as you, with no need to follow a specific structure but all foundational guidance is provided for you. We are always updating the courses so new materials will be added as part of your investment.
Mel is an expert tutor and is here to answer any questions, guide you and assess your work so you can gain our certificate. There will be monthly supervision and Mel marks all your work personally. You will also be fully supported in our open membership group, The Village Membership.
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Assessments and Qualifications
On completion of the course you will be able to teach the 40 Days of Love Classes to mothers/parents and their birth partners in a group setting, enabling families to plan for their fourth trimester Babymoon. Or you can support mothers/parents on an individual basis in their own home during the first 40 Days following the birth of their baby.
About Mel Craven
MEL CRAVEN
Mel Craven is Blossom & Berry's Middle East Baby Massage and Yoga Consultant, an Empowered Gentle Birth Doula, and a Prenatal Yoga Teacher.
As an experienced Australian Social Worker, Mel's greatest joy and passion is to empower parents to follow their dreams and create more loving relationships of connection between parents and children, families and communities. Mel co-wrote Birthing With Heart and her motto is "Love is always the answer".
Investment
The investment price of this training is £499 with the option for a 12-month payment plan at £42 per month.
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