Course curriculum
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1
Welcome to the Course!
- Welcome Message
- Course Introduction
- About Your Instructors
- Outlines and Objectives
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The Fundamentals of Acupressure
- Why I Use Acupressure as a Birth Worker
- Why Use Acupressure During Birth?
- The Physiology Behind Acupressure and the Birthing Process
- A Scientific View of Acupressure
- About Cautions and Contraindications
- List of Cautions and Contraindications
- About Acupressure Techniques
- Acupressure Techniques Demonstration
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Acupressure Protocols for Birth Conditions
- Intro to Acupressure Protocols
- Acupressure Point Location Map
- Labor Induction Points
- Labor Induction Points Demonstration
- Can you turn a breech presentation with Acupressure Points?
- Points for Breech Presentation
- Acupressure for Headaches
- Headache Points Demonstration
- Acupressure for Nausea and Morning Sickness
- Nausea and Morning Sickness Points Demonstration
- Sleep and Insomnia
- Sleep and Insomnia Points Demonstration
- Back Pain and Sciatica
- Back Pain Points Demonstration
- Relieving Shortness of Breath
- Shortness of Breath Points Demonstration
- Support for Anxiety and Fear
- Anxiety Points Demonstration
- Assistance Through Transition
- Transition Points Demonstration
- Acupressure for Caesarean Births
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Acupressure for Postpartum
- Uterine Recovery and Retention of the Placenta
- Uterine Points Demonstration
- Fatigue and Exhaustion
- Fatigue Points Demonstration
- Lactation Issues
- Points for Lactation Demonstration
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Course Wrap-Up
- Wrapping Up
- Thank you! Keep in touch!
- Acupressure for Birth Assessment
- Congratulations!
Add Acupressure to Your Birthing Toolkit!
See What Everyone is Saying!
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Your Instructors
Maranda and Evan Bussanich
Hi, I'm Maranda and I'm a certified birth and postpartum doula in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I'm passionate about women being empowered by their journey to motherhood. I believe that labor and birth are a sacred passage and is one I am honored to be a part of for each family I serve. I've witnessed so many women labor and birth over the years. I've attended unmedicated births, cesarian births, inductions, and everything in-between. I quickly noticed that the most common thing women are coached to do is to breathe. Breath work is important and beneficial, but surely there are other tools that mother and birth attendant can employ to help with pain and other issues during labor?While running our family's natural health and healing clinic, I would watch my husband treat countless patients with acupuncture. With his 20 years of expert guidance, I began learning the meridians of the body and how they correlate with health and aid for numerous ailments. Then I began to incorporate that knowledge into my doula practice.
I have found in my years of being a doula that there isn't a lot of unmedicated assistance taught that a birth attendant can provide between contractions aside from (very important) emotional support. With acupressure techniques, I learned how to help nausea in transition, anxiety before pushing, womb stimulation for stalled labor, and more. These skills became invaluable to me and for my clients.
So much so that many other birth workers, expectant mothers, and loving partners began asking me to teach them my techniques. And thus, with the help of my husband, Acupressure for Birth was born.