Peaceful Birth Method

Peaceful Birth Method Mother | Student Midwife | Childbirth Educator
✨I help families create peaceful birth experiences 🕊️ Offering free trainings, courses & podcasts

11/27/2025

There are two approaches to advocacy I like to teach:

-Pre-work (creating a birth plan, making your preferences known to yourself, your provider and team…)

-Advocacy during birth (having a doula, using tools like BRAIN, asking providers to step out of the room when making choices, having tools to connect with your intuition…)

When we have confidence and tools to advocate before birth, you can sometimes reduce the amount of advocacy needed during birth.

You can join or watch later, my free training on advocacy during birth this Friday inside the peaceful birth academy 🕊️

Drop the word BIRTH and I’ll send you the link 🤗

With love,
Victoria

11/27/2025

A lot of parents feel scared of being bullied into interventions you don’t want.

That’s why I created a framework to making advocacy simpler and more effective. This is what it looks like:

✅ Birth Preference Sheets
✅ Communication Tools
✅ Support People
✅ Knowing Your Rights
✅ Empathy and Compassion

I’m teaching this full framework in my live training this Friday in my ✨free✨ peaceful birth academy.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link.

I’ll post the video after, if you can’t make it.

You’ve got this.

With love,
Victoria

11/27/2025

Sis! You don’t have to get a single cervical exam in labor if you don't want one.

Nothing is required. 💖

A lot of parents feel bullied into interventions they don’t want. They feel powerless and out of control, and this is often preventable with the right approach to advocacy.

I’m teaching a free live training on my framework to making advocacy simpler and more effective this Friday at 12 pacific time.

Drop the word BIRTH in the comments and I’ll send you the link! 🫶🏻

If you can’t make it join my free birth academy anyway, and I’ll post the video after! 🤗

You’ve got this!

With love,
Victoria

11/26/2025

If you understand your rights, and you’re confident in your choices…

Advocacy just becomes a simple, “no thank you, we’re declining.”

Or… “I worried about this thing… I want you to do something about it.”

Providers often don’t offer personalized care. The medical model offers conveyer belt care.

So everyone follows the same policies and procedures, even if they’re outdated, not evidence-based, and don’t incorporate the parent’s intuition or preferences.

That’s obviously not the best path.

You can create a personalized experince for yourself IN ANY BIRTH SETTING… by learning simple tools to say “yes” and “no”

Without information wars or difficulty. 💖

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments to join my free Peaceful Birth Academy and watch the live training on advocacy this Friday.

With love,
Victoria

11/26/2025

Instead of saying:
“Could we maybe do intermittent monitoring instead of continuous?”
Try saying:
“Do NOT use continuous monitoring — intermittent only.”

Instead of saying:
“I’d prefer to minimize cervical checks if that’s okay.”
Try saying:
“Do NOT perform cervical exams unless I verbally request one.”

Instead of saying:
“Please don’t break my water unless it’s absolutely necessary.”
Try saying:
“Do NOT artificially rupture my membranes.”

Instead of saying:
“Can we delay cord clamping for a little while?”
Try saying:
“Do NOT clamp the cord until I say it’s okay.”

I’m teaching a live advocacy training this Friday inside The Peaceful Birth Academy at 12pm Pacific. 💻✨
Drop the word “birth” in the comments for the link — and if you can’t make it live, I’ll post the video after.

You’ve got this!

With love,
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11/23/2025

Directed pushing is optional.

It’s an option. Not a requirement.

Sometimes providers will walk in and order you to do xyz….

But their recommends are not always evidence-based.

Directed pushing can expedite delivery if needed. So on a case-by-case basis it can be helpful.

Routine directed pushing only puts moms at higher risk for tearing, perineal trauma and cesarean, without improving outcomes.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link to my free birth course ✨

With love,
Victoria

11/22/2025

You know how they tell you not to lie on your back in pregnancy? Yet they want you to lie on your back during birth?🤦🏻‍♀️

Make it make sense.

Many providers still instruct moms to recline during delivery.

This has zero to do with the health and wellbeing of the mom and baby.

And 100% to do with lack of skill and convenience.

Many providers are NOT doing all they can to encourage the best outcome.

If they were, they would not ask you to get on your back.

Birthing on your back increases the risk for:
-tearing
-episiotomy
-perineal trauma
-cesarean due to fetal heart tone concerns

You have the human right to birth in whatever position you want to.

Forcing someone into a specific position is obstetric violence.

And you deserve better.

With love,
Victoria

11/21/2025

I’d like to challenge the most common position for birth: birthing on your back.

Let’s be clear—this position has nothing to do with the wellbeing of you or your baby.

It’s about provider limitations in skill, and convenience.

People think that getting an OBGYN for your birth means that you have the highest level of expertise at your birth.

OBs are surgeons, but many of them lack the most basic skills, like catching babies in the water, or in upright positions.

If you want an unmedicated vaginal birth, hire a midwife if you can.

They are the real experts on that kind of birth.

👉🏻 Drop the word “BIRTH” for the link to my free birth class

With love,
Victoria

11/21/2025

I’m teaching a free live training TODAY on coping with labor.

We go live at 12 PST / 2 CST / 3 EST in The Peaceful Birth Academy.

In there, you can access my free birth class and other live trainings.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link ✨

With love,
Victoria

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11/21/2025

I’d love to see you this Friday inside The Peaceful Birth Academy for a free training on coping with labor — so you can feel confident and prepared during birth. 🌊✨

I’ll be teaching my Labor Coping Formula, including:

✅ Emotional preparation (avoiding the fear-pain-tension cycle)

✅ Physical preparation to support optimal alignment

✅ The 3 R’s (Rhythm, Relaxation, Ritual)

✅ Positions + movement for comfort and progress — with or without an epidural

✅ Labor coping tools

We go live at 12 PST / 2 CST / 3 EST in The Peaceful Birth Academy.

You can watch the recording, access more trainings and my birth course FREE.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link ✨

With love,
Victoria

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11/20/2025

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• For the CEO of Franciscan Health Crown Point, Indiana:
• Name: Barbara Anderson
• LinkedIn: Barbara Anderson on LinkedIn
• For the Indiana Department of Health:
• Phone: 317-233-1325
• Email: commodities@health.in.gov
• For the Indiana Medical Board:
• Phone: 317-234-2060
• Email: pla3@pla.in.gov
• For the CEO of Dallas Regional Medical Center, Texas:
• Name: Josiah De La Garza
• LinkedIn: Josiah De La Garza on LinkedIn
• For the Texas Department of Health (Texas Department of State Health Services):
• Phone: 512-776-7111 or 888-963-7111
• Mailing Address: P.O. Box 149347, Austin, TX 78714-9347
• For the Texas Medical Board:
• Phone: 512-305-7010 or toll-free 800-201-9353
• Email: verifcic@tmb.texas.gov

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