Congratulations! The nice thing about this is you can easily do baby steps through the program.

One thing I did -- and I know others have done it, too -- was to break down the big blue binder into 3 or 4 smaller binders, if you chose the hard copy. It makes it easier to manage and flip through.

As I came across articles that I thought would be good references for classes if special issues arose, I would mark them with a Post-It. For example, one I like, off the top of my head, is about gestational diabetes.

The work in the PfB binder can be very helpful not only for your personal development, but also to get you out into your community and into your local birth world. It makes it easier to approach those involved in birth already by having it seem like a requirement. This helps as you network and get ready to fill your future classes!

Although I attended my seminar as a nursing mother, I left my nursling home, so I was more like a pumping mother, lol. We didn't have any babies at our seminar, but at my DONA training we had a baby, and although the woman and her mother attended, I would imagine, because of the group this appeals to, there would be other attendees happy to help out with a baby for a few minutes if needed.

Don't worry about the peer teaching -- the instructor gives you all the information you need to set it up in a PfB-friendly way. Essentially, if you have a topic you know a lot about or want to choose, just have the info there, and she will give you the guidelines for how you can frame it. Maybe you should choose breastfeeding? You would have a model!

You will be well-supported on this journey. Welcome!

Stacie