KBBirth Prep Online Course
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1. The Birth of Birth

1. Welcome to Knowledge-Based Birth!
2. How to Navigate This Course?
3. What is Birth?
4. A Short History of Birth
5. WhatsApp & Facebook-Group
6. Progressive Head & Shoulders Relaxation
7. Pregnant in Israel - The KBBirth Guide
2. The Science of Birth

1. Physiological Childbirth
2. Basic Anatomy
3. Muscles & Birth
4. Pain and Why I Call Contractions Waves
5. Only 2 cm?
6. One More Thing About the Uterus Muscles
7. And the Baby?
8. An Accordion?
9. Hormones & Stress
10. Give Me Some Love, Baby
11. Hormone Cycles
3. Relaxation Techniques & Orientation during Pregnancy & Birth

1. Could You Go for No. 2? Birth Environment
2. Exercise: Birth Environment
3. Door Sign
4. Where am I? Orientation
5. How to Use Relaxation Techniques
6. Guided Relaxations
7. Simple Head & Shoulder Relaxation
8. Relaxation Scripts
9. Stroking Massage
10. Self-Relaxation
11. Creating Anchors
12. Exercise: Your Anchors
4. The Big Day (Birthday Party!)

1. The Due Date Myth
2. Is the Birth Starting?
3. 1st Stage of Labor
4. Transfer to the Birth Place
5. Baby is coming!
6. Tear & Episiotomy Prevention
7. Birth of the Placenta & Golden Hour
8. What If I Need Stitches....?
9. Cord Clamping
10. Hospital Stay
11. Exercise: Pack your Bag
5. Interventions & Medical Pain Relief Options

1. Some Words about Interventions
2. Standard Interventions
3. Induction? Sirus? Augmentation? Instrumental Birth?
4. When you Birth Through your Belly (C-Section)
5. Options for a Family-Centered C-Section
6. C-Section Relaxation
7. Pain Relief Drugs
8. Epidural
9. Table: Risks & Benefits of Interventions & Drugs
6. Navigating the Maternity Care System

1. Maternity Care System
2. This is YOUR Birth - Decisions and Rights
3. When You Feel Infantilized
4. How to Navigate Conversations
5. When Something is not "Average"
6. Summary: How to Make Decisions
7. Exercise: Medical Scenarios
8. How to Have a Positive Birth with Interventions
9. Birth Place Options
10. Seeking Medical Care
11. Hebrew-English Birth Dictionary
12. WHO Recommendations Pregnancy
13. WHO Recommendations Birth
7. Preparation of the Mind

1. Birth in our Society
2. Mind & Birth
3. Fears
4. Exercise: A Meeting with your Fears
5. Fear Release and Find Trust Relaxation
6. Think like an Athlete
7. Mindful Language
8. Positive Reinforcement
9. Affirmation Cards
10. Positive Birth Stories
8. Practical Tools for an Active Birth

1. Birth Tools for Comfort
2. Breathing Techniques & Visualization for the 1st Stage of Birth
3. Exercise: Up-Breathing
4. Breathing Techniques & Visualization for the 2nd Stage of Birth
5. Use your Voice
6. Optimal Fetal Positioning during Prengancy and Birth
7. Move it! Movement during Pregnancy & Birth
8. Birth Positions
9. Birth Scarf
10. More Practical Tools
11. Active Epidural
12. IMPORTANT Summary! How to Use These Tools
13. Table: Summary of Tools
14. Important Summary for the Big Day (for the Birth Partner)
15. Exercise: Labor Rehearsal
16. Editable Birth Plan
17. Practice Schedule
9. The 4th Trimester & Postpartum

1. Postpartum Matters!
2. Your Body After Birth
3. Pelvic Floor & Diastasis Recti
4. Basic Pelvic Floor Strengthening for Pregnancy & Postpartum
5. More Pelvic Floor Exercises
6. Abdominal Birth Recovery Tips + Scar Massage
7. The Baby
8. The Parents
9. Tools for Postpartum
10. New You - Postpartum Relaxation
11. Birth Processing
12. Exercise - Write Your Birth Story
13. Feeding the Baby
14. Introduction to Breastfeeding
15. Breastfeeding Tips (print it!)
16. Editable Postpartum Plan
10. Get Excited!

1. Bye Bye!
2. Empowerment Relaxation
3. The Course Notes Booklet
4. Read This When You Are 31 Weeks Pregnant
5. Read This When You Are 37 Weeks Pregnant
6. Rapid Birth or Unplanned Home Birth
7. Allow Me to Learn from You!

6. Think like an Athlete