Pregnant in a Pandemic, 2020/21 were unusual years
It is such a relief, to be back to “business-as-usual”. Birthing Classes have all resumed in the face-to-face format.
As we have emerged from Covid-19, we are well aware of keeping healthy, and staying safe. Empowered to Birth is set up for HYBRID classes, when the need arises. This means we can gather in a Covid safe manner, in the teaching space at Empowered to Birth’s purpose-built training space. If people are not well. there is an opportunity to log in and enjoy the class from the convenience of their own home. This is now an option, rather than missing a class due to illness, and still has all the same benefits of being live and interactive, with Debra and the rest of the group.
Located in Bendigo, Central Victoria.
Debra @ Empowered to Birth is the only Independent Midwife in the area who specialises in helping Parents move from fearful to fabulous in preparing for birth.
Hi, I’m Debra.
Since 2006 I have been teaching Birthing Classes in one form or another. in Private and Public / Metro and Regional hospitals. However,, there is something about getting information from the hospital where you are birthing, that is not quite impartial and unbiased. I saw a need for couples to prepare independently of the Hospital-based learning. This is how Empowered to Birth was conceived in 2014 and has been in existence since early 2015
Being a Midwife is my paid job and a great passion, Being a Mother & Grandmother is my labour of love. Gardening & knitting is what I do in my downtime, and rowing or cycling is what I do to keep fit and active. Look out for me, and my red frizzy hair on the water at Lake Weeroona.
More recently I have become a PawParent to Charli, a Beaglier, which is renewing my memories of days with toddlers who need constant nurturing into fitting in with family life. In my spare time, I pour my energy into Empowered to Birth, teaching the Hypnobirthing Australia™ programs and creating incredibly comprehensive courses for your best birth preparation possible.
I know birth can be an amazing, empowering and transformative experience. Yet, too often birthing mums just plan to “go with the flow” and relegate birth education to Google, Hollywood or second-hand information from the experience of others. We “ask Siri” or surf the ‘net to find answers to our questions, or believe things we see in the movies. Often well-meaning family and friends, or even random strangers, feel it is their role to inform a pregnant woman “How Birth Is” from their limited experience. These uncensored stories can instill fear in many women and their birth support person. It is my passion to help you de-mystify the unknown and prepare for the birth of your baby. My role is to help you gain confidence in yourself, trust in the birthing process learn the tools you learn to get through labour and strategies to cope with whatever turn your birth takes. As a Nurse, Midwife, Child Birth & Early Parenting Educator, Hypnobirthing Practitioner and Mother of four (and grandmother of 2), I have experience on many levels to help you achieve this goal.
Conventional Hospital Birthing Classes can be quite confronting. I know, because I taught these classes for many years, both locally and at a large private hospital in Melbourne. The medical facts are taught in these settings, often in large, rushed and impersonal groups.
When you invest your time and energy in my birth preparation, we are in a more intimate setting, where I can impart my vast knowledge to empower couples to be well informed, flexible, assertive and prepared, no matter how your baby is born.
It is my passion to help pregnant women and their birth support person overcome any fear or anxiety they may be feeling about birth.
Instead, filling their birth preparation with positive images of birth and practical tools to cope with the journey through pregnancy, labour, birth and take this empowered feeling into their early parenting journey.
Book in TODAY before they book out, as places are currently strictly limited.
