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Most birth plans fall apart. Yours doesn't have to.

Labor and birth are a beautiful, wild, and intimidating ride. Most birth plans aren't built to ACTUALLY empower you through the changes.

This free guide helps you create a plan that keeps you calm, in-control, empowered, and informed during it all.

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Created by a labor and delivery nurse (and mama of 2) who has helped countless women walk through birth.

 

WALK AWAY WITH AN ALIGNED BIRTH PLAN

Birth is wild, beautiful, and unpredictable. When a mom walks in with a birth plan, as her nurse, I'll do everything I can to make that a reality. But our bodies humble us during labor and birth. More often than not, that birth plan has to quickly change (sometimes before she even goes into labor). This can leave that mom feeling like a victim of her birth rather than an active decision-maker for her and her baby's health. 

This can leave her feeling disappointed in her birth story. And that story? It's going to stay with you. You're going to tell it time and time again for the rest of your life. You are either going to feel power and beauty in it, or you're going to feel like your birth was stole from you.

So let's empower you. 

This guide is my Labor and Delivery nurse take on how to build a plan to keeps you in control and helps your care team support you. 

Together, let's make sure you...

  • Feel confident and prepared for birth.
  • Are empowered in your decisions.
  • Are  able to advocate for your choices.
  • Not afraid of change during your labor and birth.
  • Know you are making the best choices for you and your baby.

It also includes a suggested template for lining out your preferences.

HI! I'M SANDIE!

(Nice to meet you!)

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to work with moms and babies.

I was the kid putting pillows under her shirt, pretending to be pregnant, because the idea of a woman growing and birthing a baby was just so magical.

And, honestly, it still is!

I started my career in birthing as a doula and now work as an LDRP (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum) nurse and a nurse educator in labor and delivery. I'm also an NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) instructor.

I love my job. I love supporting mamas as they bring their little ones Earthside. Every day at work, I get to see miracles of little humans joining families. It is literally the best job ever. 

One of the harder parts of my job, though, is when a mama doesn’t have enough information to make informed decisions about something in her birth. It’s her birth team’s job to educate her, and I definitely try my best, but sometimes there is a time limit on a decision that needs to be made, or the mama is exhausted or in pain so she isn’t in a great position to learn. There is also a lot of misinformation on the internet that impact people’s decisions around their births. It can be hard to do as much education as I would like to do in the hospital while a woman is laboring.

Being forced to make decisions in situations they don't fully understand can lead to those mamas feeling like victims of their birth, rather than empowered decision-makers for themselves and their babies.

That’s how Welcome Earthside was born. All the information in my resources is evidence-based and from my experience as a nurse on what I wish people knew to make the best informed decisions for their births. It’s knowledge I was glad I had when I was giving birth. 

MSN, RN

3x DAISY AWARD NOMINEE

RNC - OB

NRP INSTRUCTOR

2x MAMA

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BUILD THE PLAN THAT WORKS FOR YOU

Let this guide be your first step toward a birth experience that feels right for you.

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