CONTINUING EDUCATION RENEWAL CRITERIA

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Continuing Education Renewal Criteria

All PregnancySāf Licensee Members must participate in 10 hours of continuing education per year!

Fit For Birth will give feedback on one of your submissions with the intention to help you grow as a professional!

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Continuing Education

Criteria

1. Participate in 10 hours of Continuing Education

Participate in 10 hours of continuing education (CE) each year and submit documentation to Fit For Birth’s online submission portal.

Documentation must include:

  • Title of course, project, seminar, book, documentary, etc.  (Include website links to these materials when available)
  • Date(s) of participation.
  • Approximate hours spent researching, learning, engaging, etc.
  • A summary explanation for how this CE has or will help your pre & postnatal business (less than 150 words).
  • All continuing education hours must help your growth as a pre and postnatal professional.

Note: PregnancySāf Coaches are asked to provide a digital upload for each CEU submission.   For some submissions, this digital upload can be a PDF document as proof of your certificate of completion, for example. For other submissions, like a PregnancySāf Monthly Mastermind Call, we ask that you please provide an upload of a short explanation of what you learned.  This is a very important https://cursos.rangellage.com.br/ step for you as a PregnancySāf Coach because it gives your mind a chance to consolidate and summarize the information for you so that the info is more likely to remain in your brain (and for us, so we can track and maintain evidence of your growth as a pre  & postnatal practitioner)

2. Submit One CEU For Feedback

One of your submissions each year, you may provide an extended explanation (up to 500 words) in expectations that the Fit For Birth (FFB) team will respond directly to your inquiry, with the intention of helping your growth as a pre & postnatal fitness professional.  

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A few examples of how your partnership with FFB may help you directly improve your business and capacity as a pre & postnatal professional:

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  • Have you created a powerpoint presentation for doctors, and would like the Fit For Birth team to help you improve it?
  • Have you created a flyer, brochure, or website for the pre or postnatal population and would like the Fit For Birth team to give you feedback?
  • Have you created a sample group exercise class format and would like the Fit For Birth team to answer your questions about it?
  • Anything that you can imagine wanting additional awareness, a critical eye, or encouragement in the right direction!

3. Suggested List of CECs

Fit For Birth has created a suggested list of CE that may project you in the direction of Pre & Postnatal Professional, Corrective Exercise Practitioner, Perinatal Holistic Health Coach, and more.  In some cases, we have created a quiz for you to take along with the CE, to facilitate the ease of your growth.

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​(Please see the list below!)

4. Additional CEC Requests

Your continuing education (CE) need not be exclusively limited to the pre and postnatal realm, but all of the education you submit should be applicable to your growth as a pre and postnatal professional.  Courses may include a wide array of possibilities ranging from official fitness related CE all the way to written summaries of documentary films or creating and submitting your own marketing materials or making presentations to local midwifery clinics or other strategic partnerships:

 

  • Researching and Creating your own presentations for healthcare organizations (doctors, midwives, birth centers, mom’s groups, etc) or perinatal women.
  • Researching and Creating your own marketing materials (brochures, flyers, websites, business cards, etc) for healthcare organizations or perinatal women.
  • Any CE from any pre & postnatal CE provider
  • Any CE from any general fitness CE provider (so long as you can apply the knowledge to the perinatal population)
  • Your own research for projects like: 
    • Your education
    • Creation or evolution of your perinatal business
    • Creation of marketing or educational materials for your clients
    • Creation of a presentation for the local midwifery community
  • Taking a business/marketing course
  • Watching documentary films & creating educational material for your clients
  • Reading birth-related books & using the material with your clients

Remember, real education need not be rigid or predictable.  Do you have other projects that will boost your passion, your business, and your capacity as the most capable pre & postnatal professional https://www.ccit.tg/job-offers in the world?  Submit it, and let us be part of your team as you grow your dream!

List: Approved CECs

FIT FOR BIRTH PRENATAL WELLNESS COURSE

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online Course Prenatal Wellness Course Fit For Birth A holistic and empowering prenatal education course for moms & babies. 13

FIT FOR BIRTH DIASTASIS & CORE CONSULTANT

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online & Interactive Course Pre & Post Natal Diastasis and Core Consultant Fit For Birth Be the authority on core integrity, prevention and rehabilitation, prenatal and postpartum. 27

HERMANWALLACE.COM

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online Courses Various: 

ONLINE COURSES

 Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute Physical therapy level courses that include topics like: Functional Applications in Pelvic Rehabilitation, Female Pelvic Pain, Caring for the Pregnant Client, Integrative Techniques for Pelvic Floor & Core Function, and more. Various

APTA

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online Courses Various: 

EDUCATION ON DEMAND

 American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Section on Women’s Health Physical Therapy level courses that include topics like: Chronic Pelvic Pain, High Risk Pregnancy, Obstetrics, and more. Various

CHEK INSTITUTE

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online Courses Various:

CORRESPONDANCE COURSES

 CHEK Institute: Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology Comprehensive, holistic and in-depth functional anatomy and corrective exercise, with topics that include: Scientific Core Conditioning, Back Training, Program Design, Primal Movement Patterns, Shoulder Training, and more. Various

MARIE FORLEO’S B-SCHOOL

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online & Interactive Course Marie Forleo’s B-School Marie Forleo An 8 week, interactive video-based training program that teaches smart, effective online marketing strategies to business owners who want more sales and more impact from their online presence. 40

CERTIFIED HYPNOBIRTHING PRACTITIONER

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Interactive Live Course Certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner HypnoBirthing® International – The Mongan Method Trained HypnoBirthing® educators are successfully teaching women and their birthing companions to trust birth and release all fear and limiting thoughts. You will gain an understanding of how the birthing muscles work in perfect harmony–as they were designed to–when your body is sufficiently relaxed and you trust birth.  32

INA MAY GASKIN’S GUIDE TO CHILDBIRTH

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Book Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth Ina May Gaskin This book contains information on everything you need to know for your clients to have the best birth experience, whether in a hospital, birthing center, or at home. 3.5

REAL FOOD FOR PREGNANCY

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Book Real Food for Pregnancy Lily Nichols A combination of modern science and traditional wisdom towards preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum nutrition. Debunk outdated nutritional myths surrounding pregnancy and take a deep dive into topics such as real foods to include, supplements, common pregnancy complaints, lab tests, toxins, stress, the fourth trimester, and more. 3.5

THE PELVIC GIRDLE

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Book The Pelvic Girdle Diane Lee The Pelvic Girdle provides the busy clinician with the latest evidence and clinical tools/knowledge to immediately impact and enhance daily practice for the management of lumbopelvic-hip pain and disability. Key Features include an evidence-based approach to the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of the lumbopelvic region, demonstrations on how clinicians can translate knowledge derived from scientific research into clinical practice and also how to use knowledge gained from clinical practice to evaluate the relevance of scientific research, and highly illustrated descriptions of tests and techniques for practice. 7

DIASTASIS RECTI

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Book  Diastasis Recti Katy Bowman Biomechanist Katy Bowman explains the larger picture when it comes to DR, including body alignment, frequency of movement, the effects of all-day forces – like intra-abdominal pressure, why you need to change how you move to stop causing DR, etc. This book will help you expand your knowledge on how to help any man or woman experiencing abdominal separation or weakness and contains over 30 exercises. 3.5

THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Film The Business of Being Born Ricki and Abby Films This documentary examines the ways that the American health care system approaches childbirth. The traditional form of U.S. birth involves hospitals, drugs and obstetricians, while births in many other countries utilize midwives. Interviews with parents and medical experts explain the realities of maternity care.  1.5

ORGASMIC BIRTH

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Film  Orgasmic Birth Orgasmic Birth In this film seven couples share their most intimate moments of giving birth. Learn about the risks and dangers of the overuse of medical/cesarean births and discover the benefits of a safe, sexy, orgasmic birth. Follow the stories of real couples as they experience giving birth naturally. 1.5

ORGASMIC BIRTH

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Film  Orgasmic Birth Orgasmic Birth In this film seven couples share their most intimate moments of giving birth. Learn about the risks and dangers of the overuse of medical/cesarean births and discover the benefits of a safe, sexy, orgasmic birth. Follow the stories of real couples as they experience giving birth naturally. 1.5

BIRTHING WITHOUT FEAR

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Live Event Birthing Without Fear Birthing Without Fear In addition to the live event hours, completion of reading the book Birthing Without Fear must be included. Birth Without Fear began as a simple passion to let women know they have choices in childbirth. It then evolved to become an inspiration and support to women and their families through their trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth and postpartum journeys. 10

SPINNING BABIES WORKSHOP

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Live Event Spinning Babies® Workshop Spinning Babies®  This one day workshop is filled with easy-to-integrate information and hands-on practice on the Spinning Babies® approach, so that professionals can better help birthing families in the community or in clinical and hospital settings. This workshop brings a fresh understanding of the anatomy and physiology of birth. You will learn about the varied ways the baby can navigate through the bony pelvis, and the influential role of the soft tissues of the pelvis – how their condition and alignment can impact pregnancy, labor, and birth. Beginning in pregnancy, the Spinning Babies® approach helps promote better positioning of the baby through a series of daily activities and techniques that encourage body awareness, greater flexibility and range of motion.  10

PRENATAL YOGA CLASS

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Live Event Prenatal Yoga Class Varies Attend a minimum of one prenatal yoga class in your area. Can be used in combination of other CEC’s or can complete a total of 3 hours attending prenatal yoga classes. 1-3

HOLISTIC PRACTICE BUILDING COURSE

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online & Interactive Course Holistic Practice Building Course

NOTE: This company offers certifications for becoming a birth healing specialist.

 Institute for Birth Healing For any practitioner who is wanting to grow their practice working with more moms and helping them prepare for or recover from childbirth.

THE FLETCHER METHOD (ONLINE BUSINESS BUILDING)

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online Course The Fletcher Method The Fletcher Method Online Marketing Program
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THE ONLINE TRAINER ACADEMY

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online & Interactive Course THE ONLINE TRAINER ACADEMY The Online Trainer Academy For any practitioner who is wanting to grow their online business – step-by-step how to develop your online career. 

POLIQUIN PERSONAL TRAINING CERTIFICATION

Type of CE Title Provider/ Author Explanation Credit Hours
Online Course Poliquin Personal Training Certification Poliquin Group Students will learn assessments to use with their clients that require little to no equipment, proper exercise technique, exercise progressions, program design and basics of stretching.