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Understand your first birth before you meet it
Eight audio modules with midwife Deb Puterbaugh on what your body already knows about birth, to listen to at the pace of your pregnancy.
See prices and enroll$296, or 8 weekly payments of $37 · 12 months of access · 14-day refund
For first-time moms who want to understand birth, not just get through it
Most preparation teaches you what to do: when to go in, how to breathe, what to pack. This course starts somewhere quieter. Birth is a physiological process your body already takes part in, and understanding it changes how you meet it.
It may be for you if:
- you are pregnant for the first time and the stories you have heard feel louder than your own body
- you want to know why labor unfolds the way it does, not only what happens next
- you would rather listen on a walk or before sleep than sit through another class
What’s inside
Eight modules, a welcome, and a closing
Each module is a short guided audio of five to eight minutes that you can return to as often as you like. A welcome video from Deb opens the course, and a closing video ends it.
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Module 1: Your Body Already Knows
Birth belongs to the same living process that has carried your pregnancy so far, and starts with what your body is already doing.
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Module 2: Your Body Communicates
Hormones, nervous system, uterus, and baby are always signalling. Learn to recognize that conversation instead of managing it.
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Module 3: Noticing Without Correcting
Rhythm, expectation, and what changes when you notice a fear or a hope without rushing to fix it.
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Module 4: You and Your Baby, in Relationship
Your baby takes part in birth too. You meet it together, in a relationship that has already begun.
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Module 5: Practicing the Return
A simple practice for when your mind travels ahead: notice where your attention went, and come back.
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Module 6: Your Body Notices First
Light, sound, privacy, and the people in the room all reach your physiology. That gives you choices, not control.
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Module 7: Labor Has Its Own Rhythm
A contraction begins, builds, and releases. You never have to meet more than the moment you are in.
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Module 8: You Have a Map
Bringing it together, so you can recognize where you are in birth and find yourself within it.
The Companion Journal
A printable PDF with a page or two for each module and room to write. Each lesson suggests where to look, and every page is optional.
Coming Back to Yourself
Three short audio practices to return to whenever you need them.
Your teacher
Taught by a midwife with 47 years at births
Deb Puterbaugh is a California-licensed midwife, midwifery educator, and doula who has supported thousands of women through pregnancy and birth. How Birth Works distills what she teaches into eight modules you can take at home.
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Choose how you’d like to pay
Weekly plan
$37/week
8 weekly payments, $296 in total. A new module opens each week, all open by week 8.
Pay $37 and start14-day refund. If it isn’t right for you, ask within 14 days of purchase at deb@becoming.mom. You get back everything you paid, any remaining payments are cancelled, and your access closes. No lessons need to be finished.
Access lasts 12 months from purchase. Weekly plan: billing ends on its own after the 8th payment. If a payment doesn’t go through, you have 7 days to update your card before access pauses, and it resumes once you’re up to date.
Questions before you enroll
When in my pregnancy should I start?
Whenever you are ready. Earlier gives you more time to let each module settle. There is a suggested 13-week rhythm, but if your due date is closer, you can move through it faster, and everything stays open for 12 months.
What is the difference between the two ways to pay?
Both cost $296 in total. Pay in full opens the whole course right away. The weekly plan is 8 payments of $37: the welcome and Module 1 open with your first payment, then a new module opens each week, so everything is open by week 8. Billing stops on its own after the 8th payment.
What happens if a weekly payment doesn’t go through?
You will get a gentle reminder after 24 hours and again on day 3, with a link to update your card. Your course stays open during that time. If the payment is still unpaid on day 7, access pauses, and it comes back, with your progress saved, as soon as you are up to date.
How long do I have access?
12 months from the day you buy, so you can return to it through pregnancy, labor, and the weeks after your baby arrives.
What if it isn’t right for me?
Ask for a refund within 14 days of purchase by emailing deb@becoming.mom. You will get back everything you paid, any remaining weekly payments are cancelled, and your access closes. You do not need to have finished any lessons.
Does this replace my birth class or my midwife or doctor?
No. How Birth Works is education about the physiology of birth, not medical care. Keep working with your own care provider. You can take it alongside a hospital or community birth class.
Something else? Write to Deb at deb@becoming.mom.
Begin whenever you’re ready
See prices and enrollNot ready yet? Start with the free Calm First Pregnancy series, seven short audios, one a day.