The Flagship Course · 9 Weeks · Self-Paced
The Unfiltered Birth Academy
A confident birth starts here. A 9-week, self-paced online birth course designed to prepare you mentally, emotionally, and physically for the most empowering birth and postpartum of your life.
Why It Exists
A class built for the birth no one warns you about.
You’ve told yourself a hundred times you’d take a childbirth class. You’ve scrolled the videos and read the threads — and still don’t feel truly prepared. That’s not a failure on your part. The medical system isn’t built to give you the time, the nuance, or the autonomy you actually deserve. The Unfiltered Birth Academy was built to fix that.
Most childbirth classes teach the stages of labor and call it a day. The Unfiltered Birth Academy teaches you the system — your rights, your options, the language to advocate inside the room, and the postpartum plan that holds together when the help leaves.
You walk away with a fully custom-tailored birth and postpartum plan, pain-coping tools, decision-making frameworks, breastfeeding foundations, and a real mental-health plan for the postpartum season — the part most courses skip entirely.
The Three Pillars
Built on three non-negotiables.
Clarity
Understand every birth option, intervention, and decision point — so nothing in the room can blindside you.
Autonomy
Reclaim your legal rights, your voice, and your right to say no — backed by evidence and language you can use in real time.
Confidence
Build pain-coping skills, decision-making tools, and a custom birth-and-postpartum plan that actually fits the life you’re returning to.
The 9-Week Curriculum
Every week, every detail.
Self-paced, lifetime access, and packed with worksheets, blueprints, and decision guides you can actually use in real time.
Week 1Foundational Birth Prep
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Foundational Birth Prep
Establish your birth vision and understand the design of physiological birth.
Included Resources
- Birth Vision Worksheet
- Birth Stories PDF
- Physiological Birth Blueprint
Week 2Decision Making: Where Evidence Meets Intuition
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Decision Making: Where Evidence Meets Intuition
The history of modern obstetrics, your own birth biases, and the structured process of informed consent.
Included Resources
- Birth Biases Worksheet
- Decision-Making Blueprint
- First Decisions Comparisons Guide
- Conversations with Your Care Provider PDF
Week 3Autonomy: Taking Full Ownership Over Birth
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Autonomy: Taking Full Ownership Over Birth
Personal autonomy, radical responsibility, your legal rights during childbirth, and learning to advocate for yourself in real time.
Included Resources
- Guide to Your Legal Rights During Birth
- Guide to Saying “No”
Week 4Options & Interventions: The Decision-Making Blueprint
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Options & Interventions: The Decision-Making Blueprint
Prenatal testing, labor and postpartum options, induction and augmentation, comfort measures, pushing options, cesarean options, and labor complications.
Included Resources
- Guide to Pregnancy Choices
- Birth Decisions Worksheet
- Guide to General Labor Options
- Guide to Normal Variations
- Guide to Induction
- Guide to Comfort Measures
- Guide to Pushing Options
Week 5Pain Coping & Comfort Measures
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Pain Coping & Comfort Measures
Movement, breath, pressure, water, sound, partner support, and the medical pain-relief decision tree — so you can match the tool to the moment.
Included Resources
- Pain-Coping Toolkit
- Partner Support Cheat Sheet
Week 6Building Your Custom Birth Plan
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Building Your Custom Birth Plan
A guided framework to translate your values, preferences, and back-up plans into a one-page document your provider will actually read.
Included Resources
- Birth Plan Template
- Provider Communication Scripts
Week 7Postpartum Reality & Recovery
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Postpartum Reality & Recovery
The first six weeks — physical recovery, hormonal shifts, sleep, mood, identity, boundaries, and visitor management.
Included Resources
- Postpartum Recovery Guide
- Boundaries Scripts
Week 8Foundations of Feeding & Newborn Care
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Foundations of Feeding & Newborn Care
The realities of breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and combo feeding — plus newborn cues, hunger signs, sleep patterns, and what truly matters.
Included Resources
- Feeding Foundations Guide
- Newborn Cues Cheat Sheet
Week 9Mental & Emotional Health for the New Mother
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Mental & Emotional Health for the New Mother
Knowing the signs of postpartum mood disorders, building your support network, and creating the postpartum mental-health plan most birth classes skip entirely.
Included Resources
- Postpartum Mental Health Plan
- Resource & Referral Directory
From the Inside
“I quickly purchased this course a few days before my due date — and oh my gosh. So much good information. I ended up having a complicated birth, but I was able to make the best choices for ME because of this course. The postpartum plan helped so much. I can’t thank you enough, Erica.”
Carla · New Mexico
What You Walk Away With
A complete, custom-tailored plan — yours forever.
- A custom-tailored birth plan
- A custom-tailored postpartum plan
- Pain-coping toolkit (movement, breath, pressure, water)
- Decision-making framework for every birth choice
- Knowledge of your legal rights during birth
- Conversation scripts for your provider
- Foundations of breastfeeding & combo feeding
- Postpartum mental health plan & warning signs
- Lifetime access — revisit any module anytime
- BookOpen & worksheets you can fill in repeatedly
Enrollment
Join us inside the Academy.
Self-paced, lifetime access, and a quiet community of mothers preparing for the births they actually want. Pricing and current enrollment options are sent on request.
Or Begin With Therapy
One-on-one care, when you’re ready.
If course-based work isn’t the right fit right now, individual therapy is always available — and the free 15-minute call is the simplest way to figure out which path is yours.