Benefits

Pregnancy Stress

Knowing Your Brain State

Knowing your brain state is so important in pregnancy. As you learn how to identify your brain state, you'll learn how to identify the brain states of your family and friends, which can be very helpful! Emotional brain literacy is important for all parents and for those who love them.

The Basics

Pregnancy is stressful. Trying to conceive can wreak havoc on our sense of self and on our relationships. During pregnancy many women and their partners experience medical, financial and relationship stress. Stress during pregnancy can have a significant and lifelong impacts on both mother and baby.

The EBT Approach

In EBT, we approach pregnancy stress by encouraging not only the expectation woman to train in EBT, but her circuit of support â her spouse or partner, relatives and friends. The emotional brain of the expectant woman is highly plastic during pregnancy, offering women opportunities to securely attach to themselves in preparation for security attaching to the infant.

As well, the emotional brain of expectant women is highly sensitive to stress, and the stress levels of those around her via the mirror neurons are catching. The stress of others can have a significant impact on the expectation parents, as well as on the fetus.

Getting Started

Take our EBT Basics: Wired for Joy Course. In some areas, a pregnancy program for EBT, Moms in Joy, is also available. You’ll begin to think in terms of brain states, and wires, and learn how to switch your brain from any level of stress back to joy. Use the same tools to enhance the bonding with your baby and deal effectively that having a new baby can bring.

Choose the reward that matters most to you, and then move through the EBT courses until you have an abundance of it, and you are wired for joy.