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Multicultural Postnatal Care: An Eco-Friendly Approach

An Eco-Friendly Approach

Incorporating traditional feminine practices into your business.
Valerie Lynn, Postnatal Care Specialist

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This workshop teaches you the world’s #1 postnatal philosophy, beliefs, traditions and recovery practices from Malaysia, Southeast Asia. Why is Malaysia #1? It has the lowest rates of postpartum mood disorders at just 3%.

How? Malaysian culture places great importance on a woman’s recovery from pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage and stillborn birth. The government allocates billions every year to its maternal healthcare policy providing free postnatal recovery care services. Each mother is entitled to six free, feminine-focused treatments, body care and Bengkung style abdominal wrapping during the first six weeks after giving birth.

It doesn’t make sense to look to the United States, or other western countries when it comes to post-pregnancy wellness and well-being, where there is no importance placed on a mother’s recovery. The PMAD rate in the U.S. is at least 20%.

Heal new mothers naturally and heal the world.
Yet, there is a void in most western countries for established, systematic post-pregnancy recovery guidelines. We have put the science behind the evidence-based proof so new mothers of all cultures can understand and benefit. Nothing was held back in designing this course, so everyone would understand why traditional postnatal practices are re-surging in the modern world and how to provide them in an authentic but modern style.

Malaysia’s multi-ethnic postnatal philosophies and practices are a fusion of its population.

Malay (ramuan rainforest herbal medicine).
Chinese (TCM – traditional complementary medicine).
Indian (Ayurvedic medicine).

Resulting in a truly holistic approach to postnatal wellness and well-being from Day 1, birthing day.

This deep postnatal heritage emphasizes the fourth trimester when a mother’s recovery is actively managed.

There is Phase 1 – the first 6-weeks when the intensive healing occurs; then Phase II – the remaining 6-weeks, when recovery continues but is less intensive. Most countries utilize a baby-centric postnatal care model. Malaysia employs a mother-baby-centric model that allows early identification and treatment of any postpartum conditions that may arise. The inner health of a new mother is a priority, just as the care for a newborn is.

A positive mindset. Malaysian women view the first six weeks as a unique opportunity to revitalize and restore their inner and outer beauty with postnatal nutrition, meals, beverages and body treatments.

The treatments are provided by skilled bidans (traditional postnatal practitioners) using centuries-old herbal remedies, recipes and products made from ingredients that are sustainably farmed and harvested from our pristine rainforests. It is traditional feminine healthcare at its finest.

This workshop is endorsed by the Malaysian government and held at:

Malaysian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, NY, USA.
Malaysian Tourism Office (educational tourism), Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Malaysia consulate, NYC — At the Malaysian Trade office in the Permanent Mission to the United Nations

Malaysia is the worldwide leader in postnatal recovery care, and we want to share its success with the world.

Virtual Zoom session prior to in-person: 4 hours

6 – pre-reading articles.

1. Module I
a. Malaysian postnatal philosophy, beliefs, practices, and therapies.

2. Module II: Personal Care

a. Precaution

b. Activities

c. Daddies, Partners or Primary Care Givers

d. Baby Wellness

3. Module III – Postnatal Food Science

a. Diet Do’s

b. Diet Don’ts

Over the 2-Day In-person Workshop

We emphasize hands on learning with continued education.

The pillars of traditional post-pregnancy philosophies and beliefs that are the foundation of modern postnatal care.

Eco-postnatal care products (experience) – feminine wash, herbal bath, postnatal tea, abdominal firming paste, herbal body scrub, calming herbal blend forehead mask, herbal recirculation oil and body soap.
Honoring the placenta.
Baby wellness massage prevents reflux and colic.
Postnatal food science explains fourth-trimester recipes and ingredients.
Let’s talk about cultural appropriation

Hands-on skills training:

Two types of Bengkung style abdominal wrappings.
Preparation and/or application of three authentic Malaysian postnatal products.
Yoni/Vaginal steaming – experience (optional).

Business module
How to incorporate and what to charge for these services? I will give you examples of real-life packages and pricing that doulas, midwives, newborn care specialists, nannies, nurses, massage therapists and aestheticians are offering.

When you purchase this course here’s what you’ll receive.

A 150-page student manual.
The New Mommy Plan, Restoring Your Post-Pregnancy Body Naturally Using Women’s Traditional Wisdom (210 pages).
Healing Meals: Simple Recipes for New Moms (38 recipes, 85 pages).

We bring the best of Malaysia to you.

Printed material.

I’m giving you this much takeaway material because I researched, wrote and published all of it.

Here’s what student’s had to say about the workshop.

I took Valerie’s course back in 2019 and since then I have been able to build a successful business using the tools and knowledge shared in the class. I loved that she not only went over the educational side on postpartum wellness but also helped you understand how to set up your services for your clients and better serve the community. I am able to charge $180-$350 for my services and am constantly booked. I highly recommend this course if you’re ready to take a different approach in postpartum care for mothers and offer something more!

Adilah Yelton, Ibu Doula, Birth Doula, Malay Postpartum Wellness Specialist, Childbirth Educator

Chef, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Traditional Healing Rituals, Childbirth Educator

Love Valerie’s workshop!! So inspirational. From meal preps based on postnatal-specific nutrition to abdominal treatment with bengkung, her workshop was packed with rich wisdom and skills needed for postpartum care providers. I am a doula who is an immigrant from Asia. It was also a great reminder to emphasize my uniqueness as a doula and to feel confident about that. I’m so grateful that I’m able to provide additional services such as abdominal spa, yoni sauna, & private postpartum prep classes and attract more potential clients! Also, extensive research and evidence for postpartum recovery and the protocol that Valerie presented was impressive. You gain SO MUCH from this workshop!

I’m offering $75-350 per service (yoni sauna, belly-binding, & spa) which is added to my postpartum shift. Plus, I increased my hourly from $33 to $40+ with the extensive postnatal care knowledge I gained from this workshop!

Junko Ziemba, Postpartum Doula

I teach you how this set of $200 postnatal products can earn $2K in services.

Certificates
Each participant receives two certificates – attendance and 8.5 CEUs (continuing education units).

Times vary depending on the venue:
9:30 am – 5:30 pm generally.

By the end of this workshop, students will understand the core Malaysian postnatal protocol and be skilled to use it in a private or business setting.

Cost: $775

Malaysia is the worldwide leader in postnatal recovery care

and we want to share its success with the world.

READ CAREFULLY

Students are required to bring the following supplies.

CHANGE: Ground herbal compresses will be used instead of an assembly of a fresh herbal compress due to time constraints.

Community Class rules
In order to keep the class price affordable for all, students must pitch in together to keep the teaching space clean and orderly. Each student is responsible to clean up after themselves (food, drinks, teaching items and products used) and keep their area/seat is clean. At the end of each day it will be a community effort to ensure room and teaching products and items are cleaned, packed and put away.

Recommended
To fully participate and experience the traditional after birth recovery practices taught in class bring an old change of clothes you don’t mind getting herbal product or oil on. Students pair off and will be practicing the Bengkung wrapping standing-up and the massage lying down on the floor on your own matt. Also bring items that will make you comfortable such as slippers, comfy clothes, back pillow, etc.

Pre-reading material

Links to pre-reading material emailed to participants. It is important that material is read prior to attending the training.

At the end of this workshop participants will:

1. Discover why Malaysia has the lowest rates of Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) in the world.
2. Distinguish and compare Eastern and Western postnatal recovery philosophies, and practices, by having a clear understanding of exactly what traditional postpartum recovery practices are, and what they are not.
3. Recognize the void of the lack of postnatal knowledge in the United States and fill it with the world’s most holistic and comprehensive practices, based on evidenced-based proof, and adapt it locally.
4. Explain the benefits of an actively, managed after birth recovery compared to an unmanaged, random recovery.
5. Convey confidently to clients the importance and benefits of actively managing the immediate healing from Day 1 during the first six weeks after pregnancy and childbirth, and then beyond with an initial beginning and an end in mind during Phase I of a new Mother’s healing.
6. Summarize post-pregnancy wellness and well-being and the combination is required for a holistic healing to take place.
7. Illustrate the natural process that takes places during the Puerperium period; why it is important and how Asian women successful harness and navigate the body’s transition back to a non-pregnant state.
8. Explain the effectiveness of how a yoni sauna, via steam therapy used for thousands of years, tones, heats, disinfects, heals and assists hormonal re-balancing.
9. Confidently discuss the importance of providing stability to a new Mother’s weakened core, by demonstrating the Malaysian-method of the traditional and modern Bengkung-style of wrapping the core.
10. Explain and demonstrate the importance in preparing a new Mother’s abdomen and core before wrapping so it is more comfortable there by maximizing the effectiveness of a postpartum garment.
11. List the benefits of how supporting a new Mother’s weakened core and self-infused heat encourages a post-baby body to release retained water, fat and air faster and more efficiently.
12. Identify the most effective and popular types of herbs used in Malaysian in a postpartum fresh herbal compress and how to assemble it.
13. Breakdown the specific Malaysian postnatal nutritional and diet guidelines and apply them to postpartum-ize recipes and meals.
14. Develop and personalized structured daily, recovery plans for clients to create an atmosphere that focuses on breastfeeding, healing and recovery and coach them through it.
15. Prepare Dads and primary helpers who will be a new Mother’s support system during the first six-weeks postpartum by specifying how, and what, their role will be according to the Healing and Recuperation Plan that is developed in supporting a new Moms breastfeeding, healing and recovery.
16. List the most popular and effective natural products Malaysian mother’s use after childbirth and why.
17. Identify and offer additional individual and bundled services: fresh herbal compress, abdominal preparation and wrapping, yoni sauna consultation and postnatal meal preparation.
18. Recognize how traditional feminine care can be incorporated into Doula self-care.
19. Create more detailed a personalized Client In-take form.
20. Business module: Clearly identify an ideal client by defining the perfect client avatar.

*Any material that cannot be covered in class due to time constraints will be contained in the student manual.

Costs includes

Cost includes the 2-Day workshop, The Mommy Plan (210 pages), student manual (150 pages), Malaysian postnatal product usage experience, postnatal recipes, morning snacks and tea.

Class flow

The class will run approximately from 9:00am – 6:00m. Two 15-minute breaks and one-hour lunch break anywhere between 12pm – 2pm. It is recommended that you bring a simple cold lunch, such as a sandwich, for ease of eating in case we are running behind schedule.

Students go home with:

Student manual (150-pages), The Mommy Plan, Restoring Your Post-Pregnancy Body Naturally, Using Women’s Traditional Wisdom, (210-page book) and one assembled fresh herbal compress.

Available for purchase:

Authentic Malaysian postnatal recovery herbal products will be available for purchase.

Students earn

Certificate of Attendance: At the end of this course each student receives Doulas of North America (DONA) certificate of attendance.

Students can earn

Certificate of Comprehension: After completing a test and scoring at least 70%.

Certificate of Eco-Postnatal Care Specialist
Within six (6) months after passing the test each Practitioner-in-Training must submit the following report:

1. A report on the eco and traditional postpartum practices learned in the workshop provided to three (3) clients or five (5) non-clients including specific services – picture proof, personal observations and feedback signed by the person.
2. Three (3), 30-day recovery care plan including nutrition, meals, personal care, womb care and available mental health resources based on information learn in the training including Postnatal Diet Do’s and Don’ts.

Pricing

For pricing and registration, please select your city and click on register.