The transition after birth is rarely just about recovery. It is a profound internal shift that many women move through without language, context, or support for what is actually unfolding.
BirthingU™ After Baby: Motherhood Navigation offers a spacious pause during a season that often feels fast-moving, disorienting, and full of competing demands. Rather than focusing on fixing, optimizing, or “bouncing back,” Motherhood Navigation centers on understanding what is unfolding in your body, nervous system, and sense of self, and learning how to respond with greater steadiness, awareness, and intention.
Through a grounded, integrative lens, this workshop supports you in making sense of the postpartum transition as a natural process of recalibration. Birth does not simply end when the baby arrives. It initiates a period of neurological, emotional, and identity reorganization that deserves time, context, and support.
In BirthingU™ After Baby: Motherhood Navigation, participants are guided to:
Make sense of the postpartum transition and evolving identity
Understand how the nervous system responds during early motherhood
Reflect on and integrate the birth experience without pressure to analyze or resolve it
Identify where more rest, support, or adjustment may be needed
Develop grounded awareness and practical strategies for navigating daily life with a newborn
This session does not require you to share your story, perform healing, or arrive with clarity. You are invited to come exactly as you are. The emphasis is on orientation rather than outcome, helping you locate yourself within this new landscape so you can move forward with more confidence and self-trust.
What You’ll Experience
Small group workshop learning
Gentle reflection and embodied practices
Practical frameworks you can apply immediately
A container that honors both intuition and evidence-based learning
BirthingU™ honors both knowledge and intuition. It supports you in deepening self-awareness, strengthening emotional regulation, and moving through life’s transitions with grounded confidence and clarity.
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Founder“The maternal journey mimics our pathway to personal growth.”
LeShanta Baker is a maternal-child health nurse, childbirth educator, labor doula, and perinatal movement guide who believes the maternal journey is both a physical experience and a deeply personal one. Her work supports women in developing embodied awareness through somatic and mindful movement, education, and compassionate guidance as they navigate pregnancy, birth, and the seasons that follow.
With experience supporting families in hospitals, birth centers, and community spaces since 2007, LeShanta brings together clinical knowledge and embodied care. Her own path through infertility and into motherhood shaped a gentle, grounded approach that honors the whole woman, body, mind, and spirit.
Through evidence-based education, somatic and mindful movement, and steady presence, LeShanta creates spaces where women feel seen, supported, and capable of meeting their journeys with clarity and self-trust.
Credentials:
LeShanta Baker, BSN, RN, CCM, SFC
Registered Nurse | Certified Case Manager | Childbirth Educator | NASM Certified Stretch & Flexibility Coach | Dancing For Birth™ Instructor | Holistic Life Doula