Seacoast Birth Network

03/08/2026

Informed consent should be at the center of all interactions when it comes to birth.

Informed consent is a conversation that includes: ⁠
✅ An explanation of what is being asked⁠
✅ A list of the benefits ⁠
✅ A list of risks ⁠
✅ A list of alternatives, including doing nothing ⁠
✅ An opportunity for questions and further clarification ⁠
✅ Adequate time to make a decision ⁠
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Informed consent holds the birthing person at the center of all decisions. It places value on their choice and holds them above the productivity of the medical-industrial complex. ⁠
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Were you given the opportunity to provide informed consent? ⁠

03/08/2026

03/08/2026

A lovely opportunity! 🥰

WHEN CHILDBIRTH BECOMES A CONSCIOUS INITIATION . . .

Open to all: Parents and those who listen to birth stories.

MAY 13, 2026. 10 to 11:30 am PST
Pam England will be your guide.

We will take a journey through the landscape of the childbearing year, but see it through the lens of Initiation as an archetype.

Pausing to reflect on the phases, landmarks, our dreams and images, and the timely tasks of Initiation can do two things: one make the inner experience conscious and embodied, and second, turn a medical story into a mythic one.

Fee: $30

DM us for the registration link.

03/05/2026

Take the fear of people talking “rupture” and learn what your body can do!!🥰

03/05/2026

Attention doulas, birthworkers, midwives, childbirth educators, body workers and mothers!!

✏️ Deepen Your Clinical Impact with PSI Training! ✏️

Join us May 18-19, 2026 in Freeport, Maine for Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care, a 2-day, evidence-based certificate training designed for clinicians, healthcare providers, childbirth professionals, social support providers, and anyone who supports pregnant, postpartum, and post-loss families. This comprehensive curriculum covers the assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, and support strategies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, grounded in the latest research and taught by expert faculty.

Earn continuing education credits while gaining the confidence and tools to recognize and respond to perinatal mental health disorders with clarity and care.

⭐ Third day Advanced Psychotherapy available on May 20, 2026! ⭐

🔗 Visit https://loom.ly/G-IRUQM to register today!

03/05/2026

03/05/2026

Calling all nurses, social workers, therapists, doulas, care providers, and anyone interested in learning more about perinatal mental health! 💙

Expand your perinatal mental health toolkit at PSI’s Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care in Houston, Texas March 25–26, 2026. This immersive 2-day training covers assessment, evidence-based care, and real-world strategies to better support families. Don’t miss it! 🙌

🚨 Registration closes March 11!
🎓 Advanced Perinatal Mental Health: Psychotherapy available on March 27, 2026
🔗 Register now: https://loom.ly/G-IRUQM

03/05/2026

This Is Why You Shouldn’t Take Our Birth Story Listener Course.

Don’t take this course if you believe being compassionate is enough.

Don’t take it if you think holding space and structured story work are the same thing.

Don’t take it if you rely on reassurance, reframing, or “at least…” to ease discomfort.

Don’t take it if you secretly need birth stories to resolve neatly.

Don’t take it if you’re attached to one ideology of birth and unwilling to question it.

And absolutely don’t take it if you’re not prepared to examine your own story first.

Because this isn’t a feel-good listening circle.

This is structured story work grounded in archetypal psychology, initiation theory, and narrative identity.

Kindness is not the same as skill.
Good intentions are not the same as transformation.

Women don’t stay stuck because no one was nice to them.
They stay stuck because the meaning formed in shock was never worked with.

Birth Story Medicine teaches you how to work at that level.

If you want surface tools, there are plenty of courses.

If you want depth — Part 1 March is almost full. Complete Part 1, 2 and 3 to become a Birth Story Listener.

Comment DEPTH for more info.