WHAT IF...
YOU could teach expectant parents about the microbiome
- to completely transform their view of BIRTH and BREASTFEEDING?
Join our BRAND NEW
MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER (MAP)
12 Week Certification Programme.
Become Certified to teach the infant microbiome to expectant parents.
Programme Start Date: Monday 4th March 2024
(but you can join anytime up until 31st March 2024)
MICROBIRTH CONFERENCE SPECIAL PRICE:
Early Bird Offer has now ended.
But you can still SAVE up to $600 if you enroll before Sunday 31st March 2024
STEP ONE: BECOME CERTIFIED AS MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDERS!
➡️> Microbiome Foundation Course (with 5 hours CPD / CE credits)
➡️> Graded Assessment
➡️> Certificate of Completion
➡️> You can download the Badge
➡️> Listing in Directory of Microbirth Approved Providers
STEP TWO: STEP-BY-STEP TRAINING TO TEACH A MICROBIRTH CLASS
➡️> Step-By Step Training On How To Teach The Infant Microbiome To Parents
➡️> Ready-To-Use Toolkit of evidence-based digital resources
➡️> Includes PPT slidedecks, animated videos, PDF info sheets, parent handouts, interactive class games and activities, plus ready made list of FAQs to answer parent questions
➡️> Suggested lesson plans
➡️> Practice Sessions so you can practice teaching before you hold your first class
➡️> Extra Workshop Trainings - e.g. How to answer top 5 parent questions & Self-care for health professionals & more!
STEP THREE: STEP-BY-STEP BUSINESS & MARKETING TRAINING
➡️ > Step-by-step training on how to set up, organise and launch your class
➡️ > How to create a sales page, how to optimise your social media, how to find your first clients, how to take payments, plus marketing basics so you can fill your classes - everything you need to do so you are ready to launch your Microbirth class!
PLUS THESE AMAZING BONUSES:
➡️ > QUICK START: Guides, Worksheets, Checklists and everything you need to get started fast
➡️ > TECH STACK - Checklist of all the tech you need to run your classes (all free or super low-price!)
➡️ > ACCESS TO PRIVATE COMMUNITY on Facebook so you can stay accountable
➡️ > REGULAR LIVE GROUP ZOOM CALLS (at least once a month)
➡️ > PRIORITY SUPPORT from the Microbirth Approved Provider team so you can continue to make progress!
➡️PLUS ONE-YEAR ACCESS to the 12 Week Programme - so you can go-at-your-own pace (or watch everything again and again!)
Prerequisites to course entry:
Degree level qualification or evidence of a minimum of 1 year experience working in an appropriate and related field with expectant and new parents e.g. childbirth education, doula, midwifery, lactation support.
Hey there - I'm Toni Harman
15 years ago, I was pregnant and wanted to make all the best choices for my child.
To fully prepare myself, I took not one but TWO different childbirth education classes, and a separate breastfeeding class.
I planned a home birth and wanted to exclusively breastfeed.
Instead, I ended up having an emergency C-section, struggled to breastfeed, and ended up "topping up" with infant formula. I landed so far from my birth and breastfeeding plan. I kept asking myself….
"DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG?"
A 10 Year Search For the 'Missing Piece'
What happened next?
Questions about what might be missing from childbirth and lactation education sent my partner, Alex Wakeford and I, on a 10 year journey around the world.
Over the past decade, we have interviewed hundreds of different experts to find a 'missing piece' - something to help fully inform all parents.
Featuring leading professors from top universities, we are so proud that our film MICROBIRTH, has been broadcast around the world, and has had over 1,000 public screenings.
Not just that. MICROBIRTH has won several science film festivals. It's led to us authoring two books.
And it's led to us creating this online school - now with over 40,000 enrolled members.
We held our first international conference THE MICROBIRTH PLAN which became THE MICROBIRTH SUMMIT - and both were a tremendous success, with over 800 people joining!
We believe we have found the 'missing piece'....
To enable FULL INFORMED CHOICE, all expectant parents need to know about the critical microscopic events happening during birth and breastfeeding.
This is the science of the infant microbiome.
Awareness of this science EARLY IN PREGNANCY has the power to transform the expectant parent's gut health and in turn, can impact their child's long-term health, potentially reducing the risks of allergies, asthma, diabetes, obesity and a whole host of auto-immune conditions.
Education about the infant microbiome and gut health needs to come ideally in the first or second trimester.
Early awareness of the microbiome gives extra motivation for expectant parents...
To adapt their diet and lifestyle to be more 'microbiome' mindful'...
Plus time to optimally prepare for birth and breastfeeding.
What is the infant microbiome?
VERY SIMPLY: Vaginal birth transfers the birth parent's beneficial vaginal, gut and skin microbes to the baby.
Special sugars in breast milk feed those beneficial microbes newly arrived in the baby's gut.
This "seed and feed" process helps optimally train the infant immune system.
This can help protect a baby for life.
But there is so much more to explain....
This is why we have created....
MICROBIRTH Approved Provider
12 Week Training Programme
Programme Start Date: Monday 4th March 2024
To help YOU (yes, YOU!) to bring this incredible science to expectant parents.
✅ This is a COMPLETE 12 Week Certification Training Programme
✅ After 12 weeks and after completing all the certification requirements, you'll be a MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER (MAP) - Certified by Microbiome Courses - you'll get a badge and a directory listing
✅You'll take a self-guided online course on the infant microbiome (pending approval for 5 Hours CPD/CE) - you'll learn from 11 top University professors
✅ You'll take a 90 question graded assessment to test your knowledge - so you can feel confident teaching parents
✅You'll have step-by-step training & A FULL TOOLKIT of digital resources so YOU can teach expectant parents about the wonders of the infant microbiome
✅You'll have step-by-step business and marketing training on how to organise, set up and market your classes so you can make money as a MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER!
If that sounds GREAT to you, we would love you to join us!
CALLING ALL...
Childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, hypnobirthing instructors, lactation educators & anyone passionate about birth and breastfeeding
THIS IS FOR YOU IF...
YOU WANT something new, fresh, unbiased and evidence-based to teach expectant parents.
YOU WANT to play a key role in changing the health of the next generation.
YOU WANT a step-to-step path to help YOU create a sustainable business.
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Join us to become a
MICROBIRTH Approved Provider!
With our SIMPLE 3 STEP system, you can be teaching
FRESH, EVIDENCE-BASED & GAME-CHANGING
science to parents within 12 weeks!
What is the
MICROBIRTH Approved Provider
programme?
This is 12 Week training and a ready-made evidence-based
CURRICULUM (TOOLS & TRAINING)
to teach parents how birth and breastfeeding may impact a child's lifelong health.
This gives you everything you need to teach parents about the microscopic events happening during pregnancy,
labour, vaginal birth, C-section,
immediate skin-to-skin contact,
breastfeeding and early infancy.
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Why Join?
>>> COMPLETE 12 Week programme enabling you to teach parents within weeks!
>>> Developed with leading University
professors who are experts in their field.
>>> Includes ready-made evidence-based toolkit & full training.
>>> Includes badge for your website
& directory listing.
Brilliant reaction from 50 Beta-Testers!
Doulas, childbirth educators, midwives and lactation experts from around the world have been Beta-Testing our tools and resources over the 3 months.
The next cohort starts 4th March 2024 (but you can still join anytime up until 31st March 2024).
Here's what Monica, a doula from Romania, thinks of being part of the MICROBIRTH Approved Provider programme.
STEP 1:
Become Certified with the Microbiome Foundation Course
5 hour CPD approved self-guided course
& multiple choice graded assessment to test your understanding.
Microbiome Foundation Course Contents:
SESSION ONE: About the human microbiome
SESSION TWO: Pregnancy and the microbiome
SESSION THREE: Vaginal birth and the microbiome
SESSION FOUR: C-section and the microbiome
SESSION FIVE: Breastfeeding and the microbiome
5 HOURS CPD/CE CONTACT HOURS (PENDING)
Featuring 11 top University Professors
MARTIN BLASER,
Professor of Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome at Rutgers University
MARIA GLORIA
DOMINGUEZ-BELLO,
Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and of Anthropology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RODNEY DIETERT,
Emeritus Professor of Immunotoxicology, Cornell University and author The Human Superorganism
ANITA KOZYRSKYJ,
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta
GREGOR REID,
Professor of Surgery, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, Director of the Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotic Research, Lawson Health Research Institute
JACQUELYN TAYLOR,
Vernice D Ferguson Professor in Heath Equity, New York University
SUE CARTER,
Executive Director of the Kinsey Institute and Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University
ALEECA BELL,
Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago
LESLEY PAGE,
Visiting Professor of Midwifery, King’s College London
HANNAH DAHLEN,
Professor of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
PHILIP STEER,
Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London
PLUS 2 Lactation Experts
LAUREL WILSON,
IBCLC, Author, International Breastfeeding Speaker
MAUREEN MINCHIN,
Author of Milk Matters: Infant Feeding and Immune Disorder
STEP 2:
Step-by-step Teacher Training & Toolkit
Learn exactly how to teach a 90 minute class about the infant microbiome to parents (either as a standalone class, or incorporated into your existent class)
Plus download all the ready-to-use evidence-based digital resources (which have been checked by professors so you know they are scientifically accurate!)
What is in the Toolkit?
16 x Info Sheets
(with full scientific references)
1 x Classroom Slidedecks
3 x Animated explainer videos
2 x Infographics
2 x Parent Handouts (workbook & PDF super-summaries)
3 x Parent Engagement Tools
1 Certificate of Attendance (for parents)
1 x Evaluation (for parents)
Suggested Lesson Plans
Social Media Graphics
STEP 3:
Step-by-step Business & Marketing Training
Step-by-step guided training so you can learn exactly how to organise, set-up, market and fill your MICROBIRTH Approved Practitioner class with expectant parents.
What is included in the business and marketing training?
> How to optimally set up your class to offer a fantastic learning experience for expectant parents (this is NOT a boring science class!!!)
> How to create a sales page to sell tickets for your class
> How to optimise your social media profiles
> Step-by-step training on how to to do an easy launch - how to promote your class quickly and easily without STRESS or OVERWHELM!
Why should I join?
12 Week Online Hybrid Programme
MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER
Next cohort Start Date: 4th March 2024
(but you can still join anytime up until 31st March 2024 and save USD $600!)
Hybrid style of teaching = self-guided online learning with regular Zoom calls & group accountability from the online Facebook group.
Main Benefits:
✅ >>> Covers both C-section and vaginal birth - so information that would be helpful for all birthing situations
✅ >>> Covers breastfeeding, expressed milk, donor milk and infant formula - so information gives full informed choice for infant feeding decisions.
✅ >>> Access to a private community just for MICROBIRTH Approved Providers to help you stay accountable, so you finish the programme and launch your class!
✅ >>> You won't be alone = you'll be able to take part in monthly Zoom get-togethers and extra trainings
✅ >>> Full support and priority email access and group accountability to make sure you keep making progress
✅ >>> Includes full set of done-for-you digital resources and marketing materials, and full training on how to use the resources
✅ >>> Includes badge for your website and directory listing
Summary of our NEW 12 Week Programme.
In 12 weeks, become Certified to teach the infant microbiome to expectant parents.
Cohort Start Date: Monday 4th March 2024
(but you can still join anytime before 31st March 2024 and save USD $600)
Here's everything you'll get:
STEP ONE: BECOME CERTIFIED AS A MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER (MAP)!
➡️Microbiome Foundation Course (with 5 hours CPD / CE credits)
➡️Graded Assessment
➡️Certificate of Completion
➡️Downloadable Badge
➡️Listing in Directory of Microbirth Approved Providers
STEP TWO: MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER TRAINING
➡️Step-By Step Training On How To Teach The Infant Microbiome To Parents
➡️Ready-To-Use Toolkit of evidence-based digital resources
➡️Includes PPT slidedecks, animated videos, PDF info sheets, parent handouts (cribsheet & workbook), interactive class games and activities, plus ready made list of FAQs to answer parent questions
➡️Step-by-step suggested lesson plans
➡️Practice Sessions so you can practice teaching before you hold your first class
➡️Extra Workshop Trainings - e.g. How to answer top 5 parent questions & Self-care for Health Practitioners
STEP THREE: BUSINESS & MARKETING TRAINING
➡️ Step-by-step training on how to set up and launch your your class
➡️ How to create a sales page, how to optimise your social media, how to find your first clients, how to take payments, plus marketing basics so you can fill your classes - all the steps so you are ready to launch your class!
PLUS THESE AMAZING BONUSES:
➡️ > QUICK START: Guides, Worksheets, Checklists and everything you need to get started fast
➡️ > TECH STACK - Checklist of all the tech you need to run your classes (all free or super low-price!)
➡️ > ACCESS TO PRIVATE COMMUNITY on Facebook so you can stay accountable
➡️ > REGULAR LIVE GROUP ZOOM CALLS (once a month)
➡️ > PRIORITY SUPPORT from the Microbirth Approved Provider team so you can continue to make progress!
➡️PLUS ONE-YEAR ACCESS starting when you finish the 12 week programme - so you get 15 months for the price of 12
(but you can still join after that date), so you can go-at-your-own pace (or watch everything again and again!)
NOTE ON INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE:
To be as inclusive as possible, the toolkit of resources uses additive language - so they incorporate both female centred language (woman/mother/female/breastfeeding) and plus also gender-neutral language (referring to expectant person/ birth parent/chest/breastfeeding).
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