Labor Positions Guide

Prepare for an active and empowered birth!

The Labor Positions Guide teaches how to use appropriate positioning to improve labor progress, comfort, and satisfaction.

Designed to encourage birthing people to intuitively move and change positions during labor based on the baby’s position, this guide is suitable for all birthers and their support people. Learn about how fetal station impacts labor progress and what you can do to help Baby move through the pelvis and into the world. 

People planning all types of labors will benefit from this resource as it takes you through the stages and phases of labor. Positions suitable for those utilizing an epidural are denoted with a special symbol. As all types of people can and do get pregnant and give birth, this resource does not use gendered language.

Birth workers: simplify your workflow and present clients with beautiful images and clear instructions for common labor positions based on fetal station. Perfect for prenatal education, guidance during virtual support/early labor, and reference for you during labor based on your client’s individual experience. Purchase includes the hardcopy guide and unlimited PDF downloads for client distribution.

You may have heard the value in making a birth plan (or birth preferences, as I prefer to call it) is in learning about your options. With this easy to use worksheet you can see many of the options available to you in labor, birth, and the immediate postpartum time.

Use it as a jumping off point for research, a conversation starter with your birth partner, and a way to investigate how you feel about common interventions and options. Print it front and back to share with your care team, or use it as a place to gather your thoughts before creating a bulleted list of the preferences most important to you. Either way, this worksheet will help you clarify your hopes for labor and birth so that you can effectively communicate them with the people supporting you on the big day!

Help your clients prepare for an empowered and active birth!

Simplify your workflow and present clients with beautiful images and clear instructions for common labor positions based on fetal station. The Labor Positions Guide is perfect for prenatal education, guidance during virtual support/early labor, and reference for you during labor based on your client’s individual experience.

People planning all types of labors will benefit from this resource as it takes you through the stages and phases of labor. Positions suitable for those utilizing an epidural are denoted with a special symbol. As all types of people can and do get pregnant and give birth, this resource does not use gendered language.

Your purchase includes a PDF of the birth worker handbook - perfect for sending screenshots to clients and having on-hand at births for quick reference. This version does NOT include the hardcopy handbook.

Prepare for an empowered and active birth! This guide teaches you how to use appropriate positioning to improve labor progress, comfort, and satisfaction. 

Designed to encourage birthing people to intuitively move and change positions based on the baby’s position throughout labor, this guide is suitable for all birthers and their support people. Learn about how fetal station impacts labor progress and what you can do to help your baby move through the pelvis and into the world. 

People planning all types of labors will benefit from this resource as it takes you through the stages and phases of labor. For folks planning on using an epidural for pain management, positions suitable to the bed with limited mobility are denoted with a special symbol. As all types of people can and do get pregnant and give birth, this resource does not use gendered language.

Birth is full of unknowns, but what to pack in your birth bag doesn’t have to be one of them. Follow this checklist and you will be confident you have everything you need (and nothing you don’t).

This checklist is suitable for folks planning births in a hospital or birth center. Consult your midwives with what to have on-hand in planning a home birth.

As always, inclusive language is used in this resource.

What is a membrane sweep? How is it performed?

Many folks are offered to have their membranes swept (also called membrane striping) towards the end of pregnancy with the intention of inducing labor. Learn more about what this procedure is, how effective it is, and what some of the risks are before you are confronted with the question of whether to do it or not in a prenatal appointment.

A quick reference for optimizing safety while bedsharing with an infant. Research shows us that 60-75% of nursing parents will end up bedsharing with their baby at least some of the time. Even if bedsharing is not your intended sleep arrangement, learn how to do it safely.

Your little one was born in the Pine Tree State - have them rep their Maine roots with pride in this Pine State Baby onesie! 

The ring-spun cotton majority of the infant baby rib bodysuit makes it supremely soft. A one-piece design, these bodysuits have lap shoulders. These are made of 100% ring-spun cotton for solid colors. Other color variations include polyester.

.: 100% combed ringspun cotton (fiber content may vary for different colors)
.: Infant unisex fit
.: Light fabric (5.0 oz/yd² (170 g/m²))
.: Tear-away label