February 17th and 18th | English & Portuguese
Saturday from 10am to 5pm + Sunday from 10am to 4pm

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*BECOMING PARENTS*
Preparation for Birth & Maternity Circle

As women, we are born knowing how to gestate, give birth, breastfeed. It´s a wisdom that we carry inside, deep, inherited and natural. It’s alive in our bones and womb, gestures and memories.

Why then “preparing” for birth and maternity?

It’s been some generations already in which we were educated that birth, even if the mother and baby are completely healthy, is dangerous and risky, and that this physiologic process should be controlled, medicalized and intervened. Time passed by and women started to lose their voice, their will – and even their feeling – at birth.

The same happened with postpartum, which has been greatly romanticized, with all it´s challenges silenced and hidden under the carpet, because “if we survived birth, we should only be happy and grateful”.

No matter where and how it happens, the coming of a new life deserves all the respect and contention, it deserves to be enjoyed and celebrated. Same with the postpartum, that asks to be accompanied, it’s experiences shared and it´s difficulties transformed.

This circle has the intention to remind and reconnect us with the innate wisdom of our bodies to give birth, and to retrieve the trust in ourselves for this moment and everything that comes after. Together we will dissolve fears and programs, opening paths for joyous births and harmonious postpartums. We will explore both scientific and traditional knowledge for you to make decisions in a more clear and informed way, and we will navigate aspects of the body, mind and soul in order to be able to live this whole process in a more conscious, deep and transforming way…

…Whether you are planning a hospital or home birth, or you are still deciding.

*WHO IS THIS CIRCLE FOR*

This circle is for women and couples that are pregnant or planning to get pregnant. There might be some spaces available for women that feel the need to explore more tools for their work with women and birth, such as doulas, therapists, birth photographers, etc (contact us if this is the case).

*PROGRAM*

*Pregnancy*

• Conscious pregnancy.

• Physical and emotional changes and how to deal with them.

• Food, nutrition and herbs.

• Meditation, breathing and exercises.

• Intimacy and sexuality during pregnancy.

• Relation with the mother, previous births and our own birth: the importance of integrating, transforming and resignifying.

*Birth*

• Anatomy and physiology of birth

• Listening to the body: physiologic positions for labor

• Support techniques for birth (rebozo, massage and others)

• Fear and pain, surrender and love: opening the path towards trust in birth

• The partner´s role.

• Birth as an intimate and sexual moment.

• Birth plan and birth expectations.

• Types of birth and interventions: why, when and what for? WHO´s recommendations

• Rights of women and partners during birth

• Birth as a rite of passage

*Postpartum*

• The baby’s birth and the golden hour.

• Breastfeeding.

• The first 40 days: holistic care of mother and baby.

• Challenges and shadow in the postpartum.

• A new family is born: intimacy, sexuality, roles and agreements.

• Placenta medicine: what do science and tradition tell us.

• The importance of integrating birth and how to do it.

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Catarina:
In 2014 finished medical university at Nova University, Lisbon. Since 2018 accompanies as a doula women and couples during their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, preconception and pregnancy loss. She has lived for the last 12 years in Mexico, where she studied with both professional and traditional midwives. She is also a folk herbalist and temazcalera.

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