Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Module 5
Postpartum Dynamics: Integration
All online modules in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics are part of a hybrid online/in-person course that integrated trauma resolution and midwifery module of care. For more information see, ppncenter.com
Welcome to Module 5
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 IDDP 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
Your Instructor
Kate White is an award-winning craniosacral and massage therapist, prenatal and early childhood educator. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in mother-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for nearly 20 years. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic therapy with brain development to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She is Founder and former Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health from 2013 – 2019 where she created the world renown Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate program, a large online educational program for professionals. She teaches classes online and in person around the world and offers a training called Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics. She has a private practice in Charlottesville, VA called Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts (belvederearts.com) and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com
Course Curriculum
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StartDay 1: Overview, Supported Attachment, Imagine Support
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StartDay 2: Postpartum Moods and Recovery (127:01)
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StartDay 3: Three Traumas Themes: Sleeping, Feeding and Crying (133:55)
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StartDay 4: Birth Trauma Healing: Holding Healing Story and Messages of Repair (149:14)
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StartDay 5: Polarity Counseling: Putting the Baby in the Chair (122:10)
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StartDay 6: Review and Business Practice (111:20)
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StartSacred Hour: Baby Friendly Movement, Skin to Skin
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StartSupported Attachment (88:58)
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StartPostpartum Recovery for Mother/Birthing Parent
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StartBreastfeeding
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StartThree Themes in the Postpartum Period: Feeding, Crying, Sleeping
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StartWorking with Families: Everyone in the Circle Matters
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StartHolding Healing Story and Messages of Repair
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StartPerinatal Mood Disorders
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StartNesting and Postpartum Plan
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StartPutting the Baby in the Chair/ Two Chair Work