optimal maternal positioning course

OMP Group Course
Saturday 3rd May 2025

$400.00

Learn the revolutionary method of Optimal Maternal Positioning. Create space within a mother’s pelvis for a safer, easier and more comfortable birth.

Courses are open to parents and birth professionals (CPE registered, please email Danae for discount code $200 per individual).

It is recommended to attend the course from 20 weeks of pregnancy onwards, couples welcome up to 39 weeks gestation.

Includes hard copy workbook and FREE access to Introduction to OMP online support course for parents.

Date: Saturday 3rd May 2025
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: F45 Northbridge

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About the course

OMP is like no other birth education class out there!

You will learn practical evidence -based strategies to: encourage better fetal positioning, shorten your labour, reduce interventions risks and help create a more comfortable and empowering birth experience.

Labour progression isn’t just about dilation – it’s about how your baby moves into, through, and out of your pelvis. Yet, traditional birth education often focuses solely on dilation, overlooking a key factor in achieving a smoother labour.

Your educator, Danae Cappelletto, a trusted mentor for both parents and birth professionals, having supported over 600 births across all models of care including Homebirth.

You and your partner can leave the course feeling inspired, informed, empowered, confidant and excited!

Topics covered

  • Learn how your baby moves into, through and out of your pelvis, and why this… NOT dilation… is what facilities labour progress
  • Learn about the physiology and anatomy of pelvic alignment
  • Learn how to create space in your pelvis for a faster, easier birth
  • Learn what Optimal Fetal Positioning really means / where is your baby in your pelvis
  • Learn how to work with and resolve Posterior (spine on spine) labours and turn a breech baby
  • Learn how to understand your contraction patterns / there are many different types of contractions that have different purposes
  • Learn how to resolve a presentation in labour that is preventing progress or stalling your labour
  • Learn how to avoid Epidurals OR work with Epidurals to still facilitate active birth positions while confined to the bed
  • Learn active birth positions that statistically reduce tearing and give women more power in birth
  • Learn counter pressure, massage and rebozo techniques that help provide comfort and relief in labour while also helping your baby move down
  • Learn about daily maternal habits that are contraindicative to good fetal positioning
  • Gain FREE access to OMP for parents follow up online course
  • Guest professional break out workshops / acupressure for birth

This Optimal Maternal Positioning course is the future of birth education for women and birth professionals and is changing birth outcomes in an incredible way.

Course particulars

Location

F45 Northbridge
Level 1 / 115 Sailors Bay Road
Northbridge NSW 2063

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Parking

Plenty of local parking | Northbridge Plaza open carpark.

Pre – course bodywork exercises to learn

Once your ticket has been purchased, you will receive an email with pre course exercises to learn and a welcome email with all the details of what to expect and where to come ect.

You will be expected to be very familiar with the exercises when you attend the course so that we can review them quickly – that way we can spend more time on how to apply these during your pregnancy and labour.

Refunds and cancellations

Once your ticket (which includes you and your partner) has been purchased, you will receive an email with pre course exercises to learn and a welcome email with all the details of what to expect and where to come ect.

Cancellations: $100 will be refunded for those who decide not to participate on the day after purchase of ticket.

Labour prior to course attendance: $300 will be refunded as course information is released on purchase.

Birth Professionals | Body workers

Please email Danae for discount code – cost of course $200 per individual.

Cancellations: $50 will be refunded for those who decide not to participate on the day after purchase of ticket.

Testimonial

Danae is inspirational. She is not only incredibly well informed about all aspects of birth (she’s up to date with the very latest medical publications so can communicate with OBs using their language…as well as having a vast network of alternative therapist contacts she can link you in with) – but she is also an excellent teacher. Her presentation of the information is really clear and engaging. She gives lots of practical demonstrations and goes into the “why” behind various options, so you leave feeling empowered to make educated birth choices.

She covers in detail how best to prepare your body for labour. She teaches you about what happens physiologically in birth, and what movements and positions you can use in various stages. Her course also covers situations when your body and baby are misaligned and how you might over come this through movement, rather than struggling and ending up with unnecessary interventions.

 Her explanations about the various bone, ligament and muscular structures in the pelvis contextualises the positions and movements she teaches, and leaves you with a new perspective on birth far beyond first/second/third stage of labour.

Danae also offers on going support through her yoga classes and is really responsive to ad hoc questions before and after the course.

We cannot recommend this course and Danae highly enough.