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The Best Online Birth Course For Hospital Births
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Your baby's birth is an amazing day.
Don't let your fears of the unknown spoil it!
Research tells us parents that take a birth prep course have...
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With new, more targeted courses coming soon, the cost of the original BirthSmarts course has been greatly reduced!
You can now purchase the BirthSmarts original course for just $25!
This is a mostly text-based course, with some video content and printable downloads. Our new courses will be more targeted and focused on your birth goals and will feature more video-style content. Join the email list to be the first to hear when the new courses are released!
Why Choose BirthSmarts
BirthSmarts will erase your fears of the unknown and teach you how to advocate for the birth you want. With BirthSmarts, you'll learn how to reframe your mindset around birth and get excited for your journey to parenthood!
We'll go through all of the different phases and stages of labor so you know exactly what your body is capable of.
Learn about the standard assessments that will be done on your baby, about feeding your little one, and what to expect from your baby in the first days to weeks.
Learn how to ask questions that get answers, and have your voice heard and needs met through your birth and postpartum.
I recommend you take the course with your labor support people. This is a great way to start a conversation about what is important to you throughout your labor and how they can support you.
Learn about all of your options for comfort and pain relief during labor. Whether you want unmedicated options, medications or an epidural, or a combination of all, you will learn some great comfort techniques from an experienced labor nurse and mom of three!
This course is designed to include every kind of family. Whether you are a traditional family, a single parent, separated, and/or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, you will find this course's information to be relevant and inclusive.
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Hi! I'm Lindsey.
I'm a labor & delivery nurse and mom to three.
My career started after experiencing birth trauma with my oldest daughter's birth. I knew no one deserved to be treated that way, and I was going to advocate for a change in the birth world.
I began teaching childbirth classes at the hospital I work at and went viral on TikTok for my videos on labor and birth. This helped me realize there was a need for up to date and easy to understand birth education.
I believe in my course so much, I promise you your money back within 30 days. What have you got to lose?
Frequently Asked Questions
What will this course teach me?
Birth courses help prepare you for what your body will go through during labor, and help give you a foundation of knowledge about labor before it begins. Many hospitals are no longer offering their childbirth preparation courses or parents-to-be have a difficult time fitting them into their busy schedules. Several studies have been done that have found that parents that prepared with childbirth courses have a more positive birth experience!
This course goes into thorough detail about the following things:
- The labor process: the stages and phases of labor and what you can expect your body to feel like and do through each phase of labor
- Comfort techniques - whether you plan for an unmedicated birth, birth with medications or an epidural, a combination of the above, or are totally unsure. We talk about everything with research-backed information from using aromatherapy oils and massage to epidural analgesia.
- Positions to try during labor and pushing. Whether you have an epidural or not!
- Tips for support people. A prepared support team is a valuable asset to your labor team!
- Information on cesarean birth. What you can expect from a scheduled or emergency cesarean delivery.
- Tips for coping though the toughest parts of labor
- Downloadable handouts to bring with you on the big day so you won't just forget everything you've learned!
- Lessons on how to advocate for yourself and your baby.
When should I take the course?
Since you'll have lifetime access, you can sign up for the course at any point during your pregnancy and take it as many times as you'd like - even in future pregnancies!
Ideally, the course should be completed by the middle of the third trimester - somewhere between 32-36 weeks.
If I am planning to give birth at home or in a birth center, should I still take this course?
This course is definitely designed with the hospital in mind - after all, I am a labor nurse that works in the hospital setting!
With that being said, there is tons of info in this course that could benefit you in any birth setting. You may just have to skip over some areas that pertain to hospital births.
Is this course covered by insurance?
Upon completion of this course, you will receive a certificate of completion. You will also receive a receipt stating you have registered for a childbirth preparation course.
Many insurance companies that include childbirth courses in their plans will accept those and offer you reimbursement for your childbirth course. It is your responsibility to check with your insurance company to see if they will reimburse you for the course.
Should I take this course even if I am having a c-section?
Absolutely! There is a lot of information on cesarean births, postpartum and more within the course.
What is 'lifetime access' to the course mean?
It means that as long as the course is active, you can take it as many times as you'd like! Whether you want to refresh your memory throughout your pregnancy and labor or if you want to take it again in a future pregnancy. The choice is yours!
Will this course help my partner, too?
Absolutely! It's meant to be taken by you and whoever will be supporting you during your birth.
I want to gift this course to someone I know that is pregnant - how do I do that?
What a beautiful gift! Simply enroll in the course and then send me an email: contact@birthsmarts.com. I'll get you all squared away!
I really want to take this course, but I cannot afford it. What should I do?
When I created this course, I wanted to make it affordable and accessible to anyone who needed it. There is a great benefit to taking a birth course and I want to reach as many people as I can.
The cost of running this website, my time, and use of the course platform, scheduler, etc. does come with a cost. This is why I cannot offer the course at a lower cost to everyone, so I hope that those who do not need the reduced cost do not take advantage of my kindness.
There is a free 5 day email course you can take by clicking here. With this course, you enter your email and then you will receive a daily email for 5 days with some basic information. The email course is not as in-depth as the online course.
In an effort to reach lower-income communities, I do offer free/low-cost plans to those in need. Please send me an email explaining your situation to contact@birthsmarts.com. I'd love to work something out with you.
If you would like to donate a course to someone in need, please use the email above to get in touch - thank you!
What Makes BirthSmarts The Best Online Childbirth Course?
There are many other online childbirth courses out there. Most are focused on just one thing, like "natural childbirth" or one specific labor technique. Many of these courses fall short on preparing you for different interventions that may be offered, don't prepare you with all of your options, or don't talk about what happens after the baby is born.
In the BirthSmarts course, you will get a well-rounded education on labor, birth, and postpartum. You will build a foundation of knowledge about potential labor complications or interventions so that you can make a more educated decision in the moment. You will learn pain management options and comfort techniques, whether you desire a more natural childbirth or are planning for an epidural or other pain medication. No matter what, you'll feel prepared!
This course will also prepare your support squad. Whether this be your partner, spouse, family member or friend - they will feel as confident and prepared as you will. They can download handouts to bring with them and reference during your labor so they know exactly how to help.
Of course, calling it "the best" is just my opinion. But I have yet to find another course with a curriculum as thorough as mine.
*Content produced by BirthSmarts LLC is not intended to replace prenatal visits with your healthcare provider or act as a substitute for health care from a licensed provider. It is meant for informational and entertainment purposes only. The contents of our course are not intended to offer personal medical advice, diagnose health problems, or for treatment purposes. If you are in need of immediate medical attention, contact your doctor, seek emergency services, or call 911. Under no circumstances will the authors or BirthSmarts LLC be liable to you for any direct or indirect damages arising in connection with use of this website, course, or online social network. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website, in this course, posted in our online social network community, or in any linked materials. The views expressed on this website and in this course have no relation to those of any academic, hospital, practice, or other institution with which the authors are affiliated. The courses on this page are not affiliated with any other childbirth course.