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0:00Hi everyone! Today I have a very big announcement. We are so excited this November to unveil the new Evidence-based birth signature collection collection. This collection is going to be the best of Evidence-Based Birth's educational resources brought together in one collection for the first time along with some new editions. And over the next few days, we're going to be revealing the new collection one item at a time. And today we are starting with the second edition of the My Doula Visit workbook. So we released the first edition of the My Doula Visit workbook a little over a year ago as a way for doulas to structure their prenatal visits with their clients using an evidence-based birth curriculum.

0:47Our goal was to create this resource to help doulas walk their clients through seven of the most important topics related to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. So now, one year later, the second edition keeps the beautiful color-printed spiral-bound workbook with a brand new cover as well as new enhanced updates inside. So you might be wondering where did these updates come from? Well this past May at our evidence-based birth instructor retreat in Nashville, we held a focus group to talk about the workbook, what the instructors liked, what their clients were loving about the workbook, and everything in between.

1:27And along with your comments that many of you submitted through our feedback form, We were able to take all of that feedback and turn it into enhanced updates to the second version of the MDV workbook, which we are affectionately calling MDV 2.0. So what's changed? As I mentioned, we have a beautiful new cover with the waves signaling pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting. We also added new tips, updated resources. we enhanced the photos, and we also refreshed the podcast listening guides inside the workbook with many of the new episodes that came out in the past year. The original workbook included 18 evidence handouts from evidence-based births research team, and we added a new handout, the evidence on respectful maternity care that includes a checklist of green flags and red flags that clients can look for in their healthcare providers.

2:27We also updated the private access webpage that your clients get access to when they open their workbook with new resources, including fillable birth plan and baby plan templates that compliment the templates that are already inside the workbook in printed form. And if you'd like to see what the workbook looks like and I give a sneak peek inside the workbook, just head to the Evidence-Based Birth YouTube channel. Our YouTube handle is at Evidence Based Birth, where in the next segment, I'm gonna flip through some pages and show you all what it looks like inside. So our updates touched all seven workbook sections.

3:04So we have six sections designed for prenatal visits and one for a postpartum check-in. So the six prenatal sections include building my team, birth planning and advocacy, comfort measures and advocacy, inductions, cesareans, and postpartum planning. And just like before, this tool is something you can customize when you use it with your clients. It's not a set in stone curriculum. So you can decide which sections you'll cover in person, virtually, or if you want your client to self study. And there are tons of places scattered throughout for your clients to take notes from what you're sharing with them from your own experience as a doula.

3:42Now I'd like to share with you a few of my favorite features of the My Doula Visit Workbook. These are not just my favorites, but we hear from people all over the world who are using it who have told us the features that they love. In the birth planning section, I wanted to share the intervention worksheets with you. These worksheets define the different interventions and have the evidence-based benefits and risks, as well as places you can go to learn more and spaces to take notes from their doula.

4:12And there wanted to share with you the labor rehearsal flow sheet. This is one of the most popular pages of the workbook because you can use it, set it at a coffee table or wherever you're working with your client. You get up and moving and this acts as a guide for the different comfort measures and what to expect in early labor, active labor, transition, and pushing. On the next page of the comfort measures section we have beautiful color photos of laboring positions and birthing positions as well as a quick win where they can go to read the evidence on upright birthing positions in the back of the workbook where we have all of the evidence handouts.

4:51Another one of my favorite pages is the partner cheat sheet that you know your clients could have this open on the bedside table while they're in labor with tips that the partner can use upon hospital arrival during contractions and in between contractions. Some of our team members really love the cheat sheets on induction so we have a whole section of the workbook focused on inductions with a lot of information and we distilled some of that information into cheat sheets on the different induction steps such as you know what is the cervical exam looking at, what is cervical ripening, etc. And then we have the different induction medications and procedures, the research on whether or not they're effective and the benefits and risks or pros and cons of those different methods.

5:34I wanted to show you just a sneak peek of the postpartum planning section. This is a whole prenatal visit where people can prep for the postpartum period. And importantly, we have a whole section on emotional recovery and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. And this gives you an example of what there are throughout little lists, checklists of different podcasts. You can go to learn more evidence-based birth. In every section, we have tips for the birth partner. And I think it's really important that we have the postpartum warning signs and instructions on what to do if you are experiencing a warning sign and how to let people know that you gave birth on a certain date and the symptoms that you're experiencing.

6:13This is the start of the evidence worksheets. We have everything ranging from the ARRIVE trial, fetal monitoring, failure to progress, gestational diabetes, induction at 41 weeks, group B strep. We can have the whole list for you. But what I wanted to show you was the new evidence handout on respectful care during pregnancy and birth with the red flags, green flags, and kind of a description of the different types of mistreatment. Finally, I wanted to show you a few things in the appendix. We have three different fear-releasing activities. We have one using art, one using a breathing and visualization meditation that they can download using the QR code, and then we have a movement fear-releasing activity, as well as multiple copies of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale that they can use before and after giving birth as well as for their partner.

7:05We have birth plan templates for non-induced births, induced births, cesarean births, and a baby plan. So there's just so much info in this workbook. We are so excited for you to enjoy it. So let's talk about how you can get your physical copies. We wanted to make the My Dula Visit workbook accessible. It is 119 pages long. It's color printed using quality paper. It is spiral bound. And so the price for the 2026 Black Friday sale is set at$31 per workbook. This is the lowest price you'll see moving forward. So if you're thinking about using this with your clients in the next year, we suggest going ahead and ordering your copies now.

7:50And yes, it gets better if you order in bulk. We welcome our bulk order customers. So you can save 3 % if you order five copies, 4 % if you order 10 copies, and 5 % if you order 20 copies. And when you order in quantities of 10 or 20, you're gonna be saving more than if you order the singles. So here's how to get the best deal. The Evidence-Based Birth Black Friday sale opens on Friday, November 20 at 10 a.m. Eastern time. But there is a better way to shop. If you get on our waitlist at ebbirth.com slash waitlist, you will get early access to shop on Thursday, November 19. And with early access comes a special gift.

8:36So when you shop early on Thursday, November 19, and you order$25 or more from the shop, we will be gifting you a laminated copy of the labor rehearsal flow sheet that you can take to multiple prenatal visits and births to use with your clients. And speaking of the labor rehearsal flow sheet, this particular page of the workbook has been so popular that we are adding a tearaway pad of that worksheet to the signature collection so that you can either use the laminated sheet repeatedly or you can use the tearaway pad and tearaway color printed copies of the labor rehearsal flow sheet for your clients to use as a kind of cheat sheet during their own births.

9:19So again to get your early shopping link just go to evbirth.com slash waitlist and we are so excited for you to get your hands on MDV 2.0 and we have three additional brand new educational resources that we're going to be unveiling over the next week or so. So keep your eyes peeled for that news. These are brand new resources that nobody has seen except our internal team at EVB and our printers. So we are so excited for you to see what we have in store for you. Thanks everyone. I'll see you back here tomorrow with another reveal this time of one of our brand new items. See you then. Bye.