About BirthWorks International (BWI)
Our Mission
We expand and promote unparalleled, sustainable ways to support birth professionals and families in making the most informed, safe, and healthy choices.
Our members uphold birth as instinctive and trust women’s innate knowledge to birth successfully. By transforming the birth experience, we create global healing and a more positive future.
Vision
We transform the experience of birth by inspiring and empowering parents globally to trust their innate ability to give birth. BirthWorks manifests a global vision in which:
Women are empowered by the truth that birth is instinctive and knowledge of how to birth is within them. They are confident in their abilities to give birth and become parents.
Women have birthplace choices, so they give birth where they feel safest and protected. We listen to their intuition, hopes, needs, and experiences to prioritize support decisions.
Women are supported by caregivers who believe in normal, natural birth and minimal intervention. Training of birthworkers and medical providers includes what goes right at birth.
New parents deserve to participate in evidence-based holistic education and the informed consent process. Childbirth prep and prenatal care should dispel fear from the media and medical myths.
Babies are born gently and given immediate skin-to-skin contact (with zero separation) and deserve time and support to breastfeed. The top priority is meeting the needs of the mother-baby dyad together.
We affirm that childbirth is an intensely felt, and uniquely empowering transformation. Loving birth practices and nurturing environments for birth and children positively impact future planetary health.
What Makes BirthWorks Work
What Sets BirthWorks Apart
We embody the philosophy that develops mothers’ self-confidence, trust, and faith in their abilities to give birth.
We know positive, gentle, and loving birth impacts the long-term health and wellness of mothers, babies, and families.
We educate parents with academic knowledge and emotional preparation to make the most informed, safe choices for their best births and lives.
Our experiential approach to training childbirth educators and doulas is holistic and based on human values and evidence-based information.
Our transformative programs are spiritual and empower more positive maternal and infant health outcomes and lives.
We enjoy working synergistically with other organizations that uplift birth.
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The BirthWorks Experience!
This unique approach is values-driven, with heart and spirit informing the Philosophy. It believes in the power of women and their power to give birth. We honor their intuitive connection to their bodies and babies. Mothers discover instinctual knowledge within of how to give birth to their babies. This all-encompassing program focusing on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual preparation – from pregnancy to postpartum – allows them to embrace all of it fully and prepare for the entire birth experience (and beyond)!
