Prepare to Push (TM) for Birth Pros
Help your clients protect their bodies
Prepare to Push™ is a program focusing on pelvic floor and core health and wellness during pregnancy and postpartum. That means that through this program you will help birthing parents prevent injuries BEFORE they happen and expedite the recovery process.
You'd never run a marathon without training in advance. Why should birth be any different?
The birth process has been physiologically compared to as many as six back-to-back marathons. That's right - six. Yet, many birth parents go into labor completely unprepared.
You can change the narrative
It doesn't have to be this way. Birthing parents can start their journey stronger than ever with the right coach. Could that be you?
Join the Virtual Training on September 28th, 10:00 AM - 5:00
What is the Prepare to Push™ for Pros Training?
This training is your opportunity to learn the principles of the Prepare to Push™ program so you are equipped to help your clients learn the crucial skills they need to prevent injury and neutralize issues that they may have already experienced from a previous birth.
Plus, you get a little something for you.
Ask the other birth workers who have taken this training - these exercises don't just teach skills for birth alone, they improve your strength too. The principles apply to anyone who has a pelvic floor, so start using the program for your own core and floor wellness and find see the difference for yourself
Is this program within my scope of practice to teach?
A majority of the skills taught in this program are well within your scope of practice to teach, but there are some exercises in this course that legally have to be taught by a certified personal trainer. By becoming a certified Prepare to Push (TM) trainer, you will not only access information you can utilize directly, but you will unlock an archive of videos filmed by a certified trainer that can be shown when a portion of the class is out of your scope of practice to teach.
When you take the training, you will learn:
- What the core (and floor) really are
- How they are impacted by daily life
- How they impact pregnancy, birth, and recovery
- What the principle of specificity is
- How to educate and support within your scope of practice
What is Licensure and Affiliation?
Once you have completed your training and certification, you can apply for licensure as a Prepare to Push (™) educator. As a licensed P2P instructor you can teach group Prepare to Push (™) classes, or add P2P principles into your childbirth ed classes or your doula services. You are required to use official licensed P2P educational materials and videos. (this is to protect you with the out-of-scope material) Your students will also get access to the online portal for continued use of the videos and other information.
You can sell P2P as an affiliate. You will earn a 50% affiliate fee for all sales to the online program.
No. You can make money selling the course via your personal affiliate link, or as an add on service to your clients. To teach classes or the Prepare to Push information, you must take the training and sign the licensure agreement.
What Your Clients Need to Know
The core, which includes the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles, holds great interest for many birthing people, but frequently not until *after* the birth, many times even years after birth. Many times this interest is sparked by dysfunction in the core, maybe in the form of a diastasis rectii or pelvic floor weakness marked by incontinence, low back pain, and sexual dysfunction. However, core function should be a main topic for all pregnant people. The core muscles are vital to stabilizing and supporting the body and key to laboring and pushing a baby out. Even before pregnancy, the dominant lifestyle choices we see today tend to leave the core somewhat weakened, a situation that is exacerbated by the body changes in pregnancy. The only attention most people give to the core is "do your kegels". However, many people do not need to do kegels and most people are doing them wrong anyway.
This course is designed for anyone who works with families during pregnancy, birth, or postpartum, particularly doulas and educators. You will learn everything that your clients and students need to know about core function, how to get it strong for pregnancy, how to use it effectively in birth, and how to recover properly so they can restore their core for parenthood.
You will learn more about diastasis recti, which is the separation of the abdominal muscles that affects ALL pregnant persons, and how they can keep strength in the core as well as how to best support the recovery process.. You will also learn about the pelvic floor and how to advise your clients about keeping it functioning optimally throughout pregnancy, how they can train it to respond appropriately in birth and what they should postpartum to ensure they can get back to the activities they desire without lingering back pain and incontinence. We will also get into how to guide your clients through their recovery, which really starts while they are still pregnant. Recovery is often overlooked, as is the need to retrain the core. All of this information is shared with in the scope of practice of doulas and educators.
The practical skills that will be shared are how to use specific movements to prepare the core for birth and faster recovery, how support and stabilization of the core after birth can affect recovery, and how nutrition affects recovery.
This course was created and written by a team of pelvic floor physical therapists, personal trainers, and doulas.
What is the history of Prepare to Push(tm)?
Prepare to Push™ was created by Bellies, Inc back in 2014. Bellies, Inc was a training organization composed of 2 pelvic floor physical therapists and a personal trainer who was also a doula. This brought together a program that was based on the knowledge of pelvic floor PTs, using personal training skills, while also integrating doula skills. Bellies, Inc also designed an ab wrap system for diastasis recti during pregnancy and postpartum. Since then the original team has undergone some changes, Bellies Inc, as the sales space for the ab-wrap, and Prepare to Push and the doula training was sold to me.
Why am I (Laura Nance) qualified to teach the personal training portion through video?
When I first became passionate about the pelvic floor, I was about 11 years into my career as a doula. But it wasn’t enough for me to just know a little. I had to jump all in. Mainly because I was mad because for the first 11 years I was sharing bad information with all my students and clients about the core and floor. And that fired me up! I became a personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist through NASM, received my Core Confidence Specialist and Pre-Postnatal Fitness Specialist through Pelvienne Wellness (headed up by part of the original Bellies Inc crew), received my Pfilates certification (not a typo! The PF is pelvic floor, pelvic floor pilates), and my low pressure fitness level one training. All so that I could educate and support pregnant and postpartum women more fully to have happier, healthier pelvic floors!
The Prepare to Push curriculum includes:
- Why Prepare to Push
- What really IS the core
- How to connect to the core
- How pregnancy, birth, and lifestyle can interfere with ideal function
- What is diastasis recti
- How to check for DRA (diastasis rectus abdominis)
- Healing a DRA postpartum
- Pelvic floor function and dysfunction
- Aren’t kegels enough?
- Prevent dysfunction and restore function with the core breath
- More about the pelvis
- How comfort measures and birth positions affect the core and floor
- Getting the body ready for birth
- Exercises and releases for birth
- Exercises to avoid during pregnancy
- Preparing your pelvic floor for birth
- Recover- honor your body
- Restorative exercise for your postpartum body
Additional information for pros
- How the pelvic floor influences birth
- How the psoas muscles influence birth
- How the tongue, jaw, and fascia influence the pelvic floor
- How the feet influence the pelvic floor
- What other muscle groups influence the pelvic floor
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