Birth Principles: Enhance Your Birth Plan!

Today we’re going beyond the birth plan to talk about birth principles! Although a well-crafted birth plan can be a powerful tool, more often than not they’re formulaic, and outcome-focused nature can give a false illusion of control, and even elicit eye rolls from jaded caregivers. Jessie Harrold shares with Adriana how your efforts may be better spent on first crafting your own set of birth principles.

Related resources*:

• Sacred Pregnancy: A Loving Guide and Journal for Expectant Moms, by Anni Daulter
• Birthing From Within, by Pam England
• Mothering From Your Center, by Tami Lynn Kent
• Jessie’s website, where you can get a complimentary copy of her birth principles workbook with newsletter opt-in!

Related Birthful episodes:

• The Identity Shift Of Becoming A Mom
• How Will You Show Up At Your Birth?
• Healing Your Birth Story

Image description: Jessie Harrold, a white-presenting person with short, light-colored hair, smiles broadly while standing with her hands in her pockets, wearing a black tunic covered by a brown shawl

About Jessie Harrold

Jessie Harrold is a transformation-centered life coach and author with a diverse background including degrees in Neuroscience and Health Promotion, and competencies in perinatal specialties including being a DONA-Certified Doula, Breastfeeding Educator and Sacred Pregnancy Instructor. Jessie’s experiences, loves, and offerings are wildly diverse. The thread that weaves all of her work together is her unwavering commitment to help women and mothers connect to themselves, their power, and their sovereignty.

You can learn more on her website, on Facebook, or Instagram @jessie.es.harrold