This is for you if you are a:
✅Childbirth Educator ✅Doula ✅Midwife ✅Lactation Consultant✅ Other Health Professtional
DOORS ARE NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT
FOR JAN 2025 COHORT!
Want to help expectant parents BETTER
understand the infant microbiome ...
✅ With full training & support & ready-made professor-checked resources...
✅ You can become a trusted source backed by evidence-based information...
✅ WITHOUT the fear of getting anything wrong!
Certify as a
MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER (M.A.P)
You can be teaching a
MICROBIRTH Prenatal Class in as little as 6 weeks!
But no pressure, the 30 Day Launch Challenge is OPTIONAL
This is a go-at-your-own pace programme, so take as long as you need!
DOORS ARE NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT
Programme Start Date Monday 20th January 2025.
Enrollment ends Sunday 19th January at 23.59 PT.
Approved by FEDANT
(Federation of Antenatal Educators)
The Federation of Antenatal Educators (FEDANT) has approved the MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER programme (called MICROBIRTH AWARD on the FEDANT Accredited Education Provider page of the FEDANT website.)
MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER (MAP)
Certification Programme
OPTIONAL: Want to go FAST-TRACK?
Become Certified to teach the infant microbiome to expectant parents
- have your class launched in as little as 6 weeks!
Programme Start Date: Monday 20th January 2025
STEP ONE: BECOME CERTIFIED AS MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER
(Join now and you can have instant access to this!)
➡️> Microbiome Foundation Course (with 5 hours CPD / CE credits)
➡️> Graded Assessment
➡️> Certificate of Completion
➡️> You can download the Badge
➡️> Listing in Global Directory of Microbirth Approved Providers
STEP TWO: STEP-BY-STEP TEACHER TRAINING
LEARN HOW TO TEACH A MICROBIRTH PRENATAL CLASS
(Join now and you can have instant access to this!)
➡️> Step-By Step Training on how to run a 2 Hour LIVE Workshop style class about the infant microbiome for expectant parents (can be incorporated as part of an antenatal live class or as a stand-alone live class)
➡️> Ready-To-Use Toolkit of evidence-based digital resources
➡️> Includes PPT slidedecks, animations, videos, interactive class games and activities & detailed ste-by-step lesson plan
➡️> Includes 2 Parent Handouts - a 46 Page Parent Handbook to answer parent questions (all evidence-based) and a 23 Page Parent Guide with Microbiome-Mindful Diet & Lifestyle Suggestions
STEP THREE: STEP-BY-STEP MARKETING TRAINING
TAKE THE 30 DAY LAUNCH CHALLENGE
(30 Day Fast-Track Launch challenge begins 27th January 2025)
➡️ > Step-by-step training on how to set up, organise and launch your class
➡️ > Includes a Personalisable evidence-based "Lead Magnet" you can use to fill your classes
➡️ > Full training how to set up your "lead magnet"
➡️ > Full training how to set up a registration page & take payments for your class
➡️ > Full training on 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 Prenatal 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 whole 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 have held TWO international conferences called THE MICROBIRTH PLAN - and both were a tremendous success, with over 3,500 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 Prenatal Class
- Teacher Certification Training!
CHOOSE to go FAST-TRACK and in as little as 6 weeks,
you can run your own MICROBIRTH Prenatal Classes!
(No pressure, you don't have to go Fast-Track, this is a go-at-your-own pace programme
and you can launch your class whenever feels right for you!)
Programme Start Date: 20th January 2025
✅ This is a COMPLETE Certification Training Programme
✅ 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 access to a 30 DAY LAUNCH CHALLENGE - step-by-step marketing training on how to organise, set up and market your classes so you can make money from running MICROBIRTH Prenatal Classes.
If that sounds GREAT to you, we would love you to join us!
DOORS ARE NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT
TO JOIN JANUARY 2025 COHORT.
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 just a few weeks!
What is a MICROBIRTH Prenatal Class?
Using done-for-you ready-made evidence-based
CURRICULUM (TOOLS & TRAINING)
you can run a 2 Hour LIVE Workshop Style Class (in person or online) to help parents understand 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.
Why Join?
>>> COMPLETE Certification 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 80 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 January 2025 (but you can save USD $600 if you join before 19th January 2025).
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
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
Learn exactly how to teach a2 Hour Workshop style 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!)
STEP 2:
What are the Teaching Tools?
1 x Main Classroom Presentation
3 x Animated explainer videos
3 x Videos featuring Scientists
2 x Parent Handouts (46 Page Handbook & 23 Page Guide)
3 x Parent Engagement Tools
1 Certificate of Attendance (for parents)
1 x Evaluation (for parents)
1 x Suggested Lesson Plans
STEP 3:
Step-by-step 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.
STEP 3:
What are the Marketing Tools?
> 30 Day Launch Challenge - step-by-step instructions to launch your class
> Includes Personalisable "Lead Magnet" to help you fill your classes
> Step-by-step instructions: How to set up your "lead magnet"
> Step-by-step instructions: How to set up a registration page & take payments
>Plus full set of Marketing Images for Social Media & your website
Deadline to join?
Join before Sunday 19th January 2025 and save USD $600
Online Hybrid Programme
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 accountability partnerships (and if you feel ready, you can join everyone else on the 30 Day Launch Challenge!)
✅ >>> Includes full set of done-for-you digital resources and marketing materials, and full training on how to use the resources
✅ >>> Includes personalizable LEAD MAGNET for your website to drive traffic to your classes (image below)
RECAP: What's Included:
MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER (MAP)
Certification Programme
OPTIONAL: Want to go FAST-TRACK?
Become Certified to run a MICROBIRTH Prenatal Class
- and have your class launched in as little as 6 weeks!
Join before Fri 19th January 2025 to save $600
STEP ONE: BECOME CERTIFIED AS MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER
(Join now and you can have instant access to this!)
➡️> Microbiome Foundation Course (with 5 hours CPD / CE credits)
➡️> Graded Assessment
➡️> Certificate of Completion
➡️> You can download the Badge
➡️> Listing in Global Directory of Microbirth Approved Providers
STEP TWO: STEP-BY-STEP TEACHER TRAINING
LEARN HOW TO TEACH A MICROBIRTH PRENATAL CLASS
(Join now and you can have instant access to this!)
➡️> Step-By Step Training on how to run a 2 Hour LIVE Workshop style class about the infant microbiome for expectant parents (can be incorporated as part of your existent live class or as a stand-alone class)
➡️> Ready-To-Use Toolkit of evidence-based digital resources
➡️> Includes PPT slidedecks, animations, videos, interactive class games and activities & detailed ste-by-step lesson plan
➡️> Includes 2 Parent Handouts - a 46 Page Parent Handbook to answer parent questions (all evidence-based) and a 23 Page Parent Guide with Microbiome-Mindful Diet & Lifestyle Suggestions
STEP THREE: STEP-BY-STEP MARKETING TRAINING
TAKE THE 30 DAY LAUNCH CHALLENGE
(Fast Track Challenge starts Monday 27th Jaunary 2025)
➡️ > Step-by-step training on how to set up, organise and launch your class
➡️ > Includes a Personalisable evidence-based "Lead Magnet" you can use to fill your classes
➡️ > Full training how to set up your "lead magnet"
➡️ > Full training how to set up a registration page & take payments for your class
➡️ > Full training on 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 Prenatal 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.
DOORS FOR ENROLLMENT ARE OPEN!
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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You might have some questions - so we have the answers for you!
If your question isn't answered below, do send me a message via the CONTACT FORM
https://microbirth.com/contact-us/
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Q
Who is this programme for?
Parent educators and health professionals who want to teach parents including: antenatal teachers, childbirth educators, lactation educators, doctors, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, hypnobirth instructors, breastfeeding counsellors, health practitioners and other health professionals.
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.
What are the 5 Hours CPD/CE?
The Microbiome Foundation Course has been approved for:
5 HOURS CPD Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives.
5 HOURS CE credits (equivalent of 5 CONTACT HOURS) by Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC)
Accepted as 5 Hours CPD/CE by
ACM, NMC, MEAC, Lamaze International, DONA International, CAPPA and ICEA.
What does it mean approved by FEDANT?
The Federation of Antenatal Educators (FEDANT) has approved the MICROBIRTH APPROVED PROVIDER programme (called MICROBIRTH AWARD on the FEDANT list of Approved Providers)
FEDANT NRSA Course Number: 1012631/332
FEDANT administer the professional standards for education, to make sure Antenatal Educators, Breastfeeding Counsellors and Doulas have the right skills and qualities to be entered onto the National Register.
It is the role of the regulator to ensure that individuals admitted to the National Register are competent to practice (They also administer the professional standards for Continuing Professional Development – CPD).
After they initially qualify; Antenatal Educators, Breastfeeding Counsellors and Doulas must continually train and take part in learning activities to demonstrate that their skills and knowledge are up to date.
FEDANT Approved Courses have completed the National Course Accreditation and Verification (NCAV) process. This process ensures that accredited courses are operating within agreed parameters and include a set of core elements as defined by the profession.
Graduates from FEDANT accredited courses (that’s you!) which have been approved via the NCAV process (that’s us!) are seen to meet the educational requirements for admission to the National Register.
Course accreditation is a ‘mark of quality’. Courses granted FEDANT NCAV or NRSA accreditation are evidenced to be well structured, contain the core elements where applicable and are relevant to the profession.
- A FEDANT accredited course demonstrates success in satisfying the demanding requirements of the national regulatory body and the benchmarks of a respected quality assurance framework.
- The provider of an accredited course is entitled to use the FEDANT logo on their websites and promotional materials.
- FEDANT NCAV and NRSA courses have recognition within the industry, with employers and service commissioners. Accredited courses are listed on the Accredited Education Provider page of the FEDANT website.
- Accreditation shows commitment to professionalism in the field of Antenatal Education and willingness to engage with the wider professional and employer community.
- Students on the accredited course are entitled to use the reduced rate FEDANT Block Scheme Insurance policy for students whilst training.
- Graduates from applicable accredited courses have the right to apply for direct admission to the FEDANT National Register.
- Graduates from applicable accredited courses who attain FEDANT Registration are entitled to use the reduced rate FEDANT Block Scheme Insurance policy.