Welcome to the Real Birth Workshop digital course, this programme has been designed to give you a more in-depth understanding of the amazing changes that take place when you give birth to your baby. The course is around 6 hours long and is written in modules, once you have completed one module you are able to move on to the next. You can move between any of the completed modules to go over the information at any time. You will have access to the course for the length of your pregnancy and will be guided through a series of interactive classes and animations that will help you with birth planning and support your choices in birth.
Some of the topics you will cover are:
At The Real Birth Company, one of our fundamental principles is learning from any initiative we work on. During the development of the Real Birth Online Workshop we included the following steps:
Gill Houghton – Consultant Midwife Liverpool Womens The Liverpool Women’s Hospital has on average 8,000 births per annum and covers a wide area of differing communities, each with their own needs and priorities. For a variety of reasons reaching pregnant women from these communities has always been a challenge. Whilst aware of these challenges, we have never had the capacity to address them in a way that was cohesive and conformed with our existing antennal education programme. When Zoe Wright from the Real Birth Company approached me with details of their innovative multilingual on- line training workshop I could immediately see the benefits such a programme could bring to the Liverpool Women’s current maternity service. I found the programme to be well researched, evidence based and written in a style that would be easy for anyone to follow and most importantly these days, accessible by computer, tablet and phone. The graphics and video clips are informative and definitely add to the enjoyment of the programme and where appropriate they are culturally respectful providing all women with an understanding of the physiology of birth. The programme has the ability to reach many more women than we can using our existing antenatal education model and the fact it has already been written in four languages with more to come means we now have the ability to provide the majority of women with an understanding of birth and the positive choices that can be made prior to starting labour. Taking part in the pilot project has given the LINK and Midwiferyå teams opportunity to assess the feasibility of providing this resource to women in our local population within the context of their usual practice and so far, results have been encouraging. Participants in the trial have been asked to complete the anonymous online survey built in at the end of the course so we can monitor latent phase admissions, use of analgesia in labour and whether the programme has contributed to a positive birth experience. This information will then be evaluated to see what impact the programme has had on patient care, patient safety, quality of service, decision making and cost savings.