FOR MIDWIVES, DOULAS AND WOMEN'S WELLNESS PRACTITIONERS
Stop guessing which herb she needs. Read it from her body.
The Vitalist Birth Kit is a free downloadable one-page chart that matches eight core herbs for pregnancy, labor and postpartum to the bedside signs.
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"Steph was available and used plenty of herbal remedies for my concerns. She was a fountain of knowledge and even though I was on my third birth, she helped to make it a redemption birth that I'll never forget. She has a light hearted bedside manner and deeply knows her stuff."
Isabel L.
The practitioner women trust at a birth reads the labor first and reaches for the bottle second.
This chart trains your eye to do exactly that.
The problem
Most of us were taught herbs the Western way: name the problem, then pick the herb that fights it. That model treats the body as something under attack and the plant as a weapon, and birth exposes how thin it is.
Two women can both have a "slow labor." One has weak, uncoordinated, depleted muscles. The other has early contractions firing erratically with no rhythm. Reach for the same herb for both and you're guessing, and a woman in labor can feel when the person beside her is guessing.
One "slow labor"
Weak, uncoordinated, depleted muscles
Another "slow labor"
Early contractions firing erratically with no rhythm
The body is showing you what it needs. Your job is to read it.
What's inside
01
Eight core birth herbs, from black cohosh through cotton root, each with the indications that tell you it's the one
02
The timing cautions most references skip, to give you full body confidence in your recommendations
03
The bedside keynotes that separate one herb from another, like the tension-led pain that calls for one herb and the anxious, overthinking first-time mother in prodromal labor who needs another
Get the Vitalist Birth Kit
Eight core birth herbs, matched to the signs that tell you which one she needs.
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Who it's for
Midwives, doulas, herbalists and women's wellness practitioners who want their herbal choices to come from what they see in the woman, not from a reference list.
You might already be working with herbs at births or you might be building toward it. Either way, this is the lens.
ABOUTÂ Steph
Hi! I'm Steph Berry and I've spent almost twenty years at births reading women's bodies and choosing plants by their energetics. This chart is the reference I hand my students.
Inside Wild Wombkeeper, I teach the whole skill: how to translate what you observe into what it signals, and how to respond.
Stephanie Berry
The Vitalist Birth Kit
A midwife's field guide to the common herbs for pregnancy, labor and postpartum
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