Welcome to Module 6

You have made it to the last installment of our training. Our Theme is Connection. After birth, our job is to help the new family connect with each other and themselves from this new place, having crossed the threshold to being a family or expanding their family. We have informed you about the blueprint and imprint states that come from preconception, conception, prenatal life, and birth of all kinds. After birth, there may be difficulty breastfeeding that may lead to trauma. Women may feel quite defeated by not being able to breastfeed. We know that babies will tell their story as part of the breastfeeding journey. In this module, our themes and skills include:

• Support, Repair and Connection
• Sacred Hour and the Baby Friendly Movement
• Supported Attachment
• Working with Support as a Theme
• Postpartum Recovery and Planning
• Postpartum Mood Disorders
• Three Postpartum Trauma Themes: Feeding, Crying and Sleeping
• The Holding Healing Story and Messages of Repair
• Mapping out the Layers of Experience
• Decompressing the Layers
• Polarity Counseling and the Baby
• Support for the Family at Home
• Business Planning
• Review of your IPPD Year

Skills include:

• Supported Attachment
• Facilitated Movement with the Baby
• Recognizing the Story
• Naming, Modeling, Slowing the Pace
• Blueprint, The Family Field
• Recognition (The Chitty Protocol)
• Putting the Baby in the Chair
• Decompressing the Layers with Leading Edge work