PRINCIPLES
AMANI
Birth Certified Childbirth Educators teach the following principles:
- Allah is in control of all things.
- Birth is a natural life event.
- Birth is inherently safe.
- The mother’s role in maximizing birth’s safeguards.
- Trust in birth is trust in Allah.
- Physiology of pregnancy.
- Physical preparation for labor/birth.
- The importance of good nutrition during pregnancy.
- Natural techniques for labor pain.
- The importance of avoiding drugs in pregnancy and labor.
- Parental responsibility starts in pregnancy.
- Birth consumerism is an obligation of good parenting.
- Making informed decisions during pregnancy and birth.
- Self-advocacy is a right and a responsibility in birth.
- The birth experience matters for a lifetime.
- Empowering women in birth.
- Educating partners to support mothers in labor.
- Breastfeeding is the best nutrition for babies.
- Thanking Allah for the birth experience.
- Trust in Allah’s plan for our births and our lives.
Amani birth is not a method of birth.
There is no right or wrong way to birth. Amani birth is simply a philosophy of
trusting Allah’s perfect design of a woman’s body and a program for educating
women about the way their body works during the blessed time of pregnancy,
labor, birth, and early motherhood. It is our belief that understanding the
process will allow women to prepare, work with their bodies, and take full
advantage of Allah’s built in safety nets.
Amani birth is trust in Allah for an
empowering, natural, non-medicated birth with the woman at the center of the
event and the birth attendants supporting and encouraging her along the way,
intervening only if true complications arise.
