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THE MAMA PATHWAY

A Complete Pregnancy, Birth, & New Mama Journey
with Aviva Romm, Midwife + MD

Reclaiming Empowered Birth:
A New Approach to Traditional Wisdom

The Mama Pathway is not your average childbirth education program. It's a powerful virtual community and online education experience where traditional midwifery wisdom & modern medicine meet to support you on your most confident path through the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum you'd most like to experience.  

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BirthWise: Labor & Birth Prep

From being your own best advocate to finding your inner midwife and learning how to flow with the unexpected, this is your complete labor & birth prep course.

Matrescence: Postpartum Mama + Newborn Care COMING SOON!

From the physical to the spiritual - all you need to know to have a smooth transition into motherhood.

MotherNurture: Total Holistic Prenatal Wellness COMING SOON!

From prenatal care to what to eat for optimal health, herbs +supplements to exercise, and all the things you need to know for a holistic pregnancy.

Woom: Natural Preconception & Fertility COMING SOON!

Whether you're optimizing your health for conception or facing fertility challenges, you'll find resources and support for your healthiest mama journey.

What You'll Receive in the BirthWise Course

  • Dr. Aviva’s unique labor & birth course based on 40+ years of experience as a midwife and MD with video + audio to enjoy at your own pace.
  • 24/7 access to a private online community of mamas & birth workers around the world where you can connect, share, and ask questions.
  • Bi-weekly 60-minute judgment-free Q&A with Dr. Aviva (or team)to chat, learn, share, and bring all your questions.
  • Exclusive access to Dr. Aviva's complete prenatal, birth, and postpartum "I Deserve Birth Support" library of classes.
  • Member-only access to special events with Dr. Aviva, guest classes, and On Health podcast guest videos.
  • Supplemental guides, worksheets and ‘cheat’ sheets to help you transform your learning into action.
  • Traditional and evidence-based tools for changing your mindset so you can learn new ways to think about pregnancy and birth, without fear.
  • The feeling that you're in Dr. Aviva's living room and cozy practice getting the support and information you really want that most doctors just don't know.
  • Exclusive discounts on supplements, herbs, and Dr. Aviva's favorite products to support you on your Mama Journey.


The Mama Pathway Community
Because It Takes a Village

Online birth education has been shown to have a powerful impact on prenatal, birth, and postpartum well-being and health for mama and baby, including reducing prenatal complications, need for cesarean, and postpartum anxiety and depression. Equally important is the support of other women as we go through this major transformation in our lives – whether becoming mothers for the first time, or growing our families. Wherever you are in your pregnancy you'll have access to our incredible community and community birth workers –  like no other- all practically in your pocket for when you need support or have questions about anything on your mama journey. Members also receive discounts on new courses when they are released! Can't wait to see you there! 

We’ve been convinced as a culture that we don't know how to birth. It's just not true.

Relearn. Remember. Reclaim. Join the classes and community that will help you feel supported, educated, and powerful! 

Yes, I Want This!

The Mama Pathway Courses

The NEW! Mama Pathway Courses will be released as individual bundles throughout 2024 and 2025. You can rotate through the BirthWise carousel below to the classes that are currently available in the BirthWise Bundle. In 2020, Dr. Aviva created the incredible, powerful, and transformative #I-Deserve-Birth-Support Program with 40 hours of video – also available exclusively to Mama Pathway members looking for prenatal and postpartum classes. 


BirthWise: Innate & Empowered Birth Preparation - NOW AVAILABLE!

Welcome to the Mama Pathway!

Welcome to the Mama Pathway!

Should you stop supplements? Start drinking herb teas? Find a midwife or OB? Encapsulate your placenta? Give your baby Vit K? Learn how to use the Mama Pathway for your best mama journey!
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Your Birth, Your Rules: Empowered Pregnancy & Birth

Your Birth, Your Rules: Empowered Pregnancy & Birth

From too many cesareans to endemic sexism and racism in medical care, we have to know how to be our best advocates. This class is a must for all.
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Choosing Your Birth Place, Choosing Your Care Providers

Choosing Your Birth Place, Choosing Your Care Providers

Where and with whom you birth is highly personal and can affect your experience and outcomes. Come learn your options and how to choose what’s best for YOU.
Aviva Romm
Knowledge is Power: Understanding Labor & Birth

Knowledge is Power: Understanding Labor & Birth

An empowered birth starts with birth literacy – understanding what birth is, what the stages are, what your body’s doing, what you really want– and don’t want. This class walks thru it all.
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Find Your Inner Midwife: Birth Wisdom, Tools & Mindset

Find Your Inner Midwife: Birth Wisdom, Tools & Mindset

We all have, within us, a connection to a deep powerful well of strength and inner knowing that’s been hushed by our culture. Reclaim your inner power, tap into your innate birthing wisdom, and learn what it means to birth primally.
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When Labor Doesn't Go As Planned: What You Need to Know, What You Can Do

When Labor Doesn't Go As Planned: What You Need to Know, What You Can Do

As much as we’d love to have the births of our dreams, labor also requires us to surrender. Learn about the most common labor challenges & how to navigate them with power and grace.
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A Meaningful Birth Plan that Really Works

A Meaningful Birth Plan that Really Works

What do you dream of for your birth? What does it take for your birth plan to be respected? Learn how to create a birth plan that really works and how to implement it.
Aviva Romm
Perineal Care and Tear Prevention 

Perineal Care and Tear Prevention 

How to care for and protect your perineum during pregnancy and birth, and prevent tears for a confident birthing experience and a smoother postpartum recovery.
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The Golden Hour Needs of Mamas and Babies

The Golden Hour Needs of Mamas and Babies

The Golden Hour should be the standard of care for healthy moms and babies! This class will teach you why and what to ask for to get it.
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COMING FALL '24! Matrescence: Traditional Postpartum Mama + Baby Care

The First 40 Days

The First 40 Days

Becoming a new mom - you have all the feelings. And body shifts. Hormones, emotions, laying in, who should visit, nourishing foods and herbs, herbal baths, self-care with a newborn: how to balance life and baby. Learn how to create sacred space, rest, heal, and enjoy this special time.
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The First Week After Birth: What To Expect Body, Heart & Soul + Tips

The First Week After Birth: What To Expect Body, Heart & Soul + Tips

What happens in the first week postpartum - emotionally, physically, hormonally? And how do you make sure everything is 'normal?" Learn all about the first week postpartum and how to optimize this time and heal with the best guidance and tips.
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Healing Your Bottom After Birth: Tears, Soreness, Hemorrhoids

Healing Your Bottom After Birth: Tears, Soreness, Hemorrhoids

Compresses. Sitz baths. Spray bottles. Learn what works from the midwife-herbalist who reintroduced postpartum healing herbal perineal care in modern times.
Aviva Romm
Breastfeeding Challenges and Solutions

Breastfeeding Challenges and Solutions

Natural doesn't always mean easy. Treat sore nipples, low milk production, engorgement, pumping and storing, too much milk, tongue tie, blocked ducts and more to make your experience easier.
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Baby's First Week

Baby's First Week

Babies do some surprising things in their first week - learn what's normal, what's not, and how to care for your newborn with an easier mind, and natural tips from cord care to diaper rash, weight gain to co-sleeping - it's all here from an MD-mama-midwife.
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COMING WINTER '25! MotherNurture: Complete Holistic Prenatal Wellness & Empowerment

First Trimester Testing: What You Need, How to Choose

First Trimester Testing: What You Need, How to Choose

There are so many tests. Which do you need? Want? Beyond the basics, all you need to know about the tests your care provider will suggest during your first trimester - and which are right for you and your baby.
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Optimal Prenatal Nutrition

Optimal Prenatal Nutrition

It can be so overwhelming to know what to eat for optimum health for you and baby - including vegan considerations.. Plus you'll get meal plans and a deep dive on prenatal vitamins
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Natural Approaches to Prenatal Discomforts

Natural Approaches to Prenatal Discomforts

From morning sickness to heartburn, varicose veins to constipation, help is here.with natural and also conventional options that ease pregnancy symptoms - safely.
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Sleep and Stress in Pregnancy

Sleep and Stress in Pregnancy

Whether sleep is a challenge, or you're stressed out and worrying about it affecting baby - come find sleep and stress solutions that really make a difference.
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Group B Strep: What You Need to Know

Group B Strep: What You Need to Know

If you want to understand GBS and go from confusion to confidence, know your options and what the evidence says about them - while protecting your's and baby's microbiome, this class is for you.
Aviva Romm
Prenatal Anxiety and Depression

Prenatal Anxiety and Depression

If you're experiencing anxiety or depression, you're not alone. Come learn what you can do - from natural approaches to medical options - so you can choose what's safest and really works for you.
Aviva Romm

Join the Mama Pathway - Your Way!

BirthWise Course + Community

BEST CHOICE! Course + 1 year community access
$420 ($35/month x 12 months)

Includes The NEW BirthWise Childbirth Preparation Course and all features and services in the Mama Pathway. 

Recommended if you're looking for a holistic birth prep course and ongoing access to a holistic prenatal, birth, and postpartum community beyond just birth prep.

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BirthWise Course + Community

Course + 3 months community access
$360 ($120/month x 3 months)

 Includes The NEW BirthWise Childbirth Preparation Course and all features and services in the Mama Pathway. 

Recommended if you're looking for a holistic birth prep course, and a place to ask questions and find support - but don't feel you need the postpartum support. 

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What Women Are Saying

Dr. Aviva Romm has been women & families through pregnancy, birth, and motherhood for 4 decades as a midwife and medical doctor. Here's what  Mamas are saying…

Isa arrived last night swiftly: a one-hour labor. I had the power within emphasized because of your wonderful birth course!!! Thank you SO much for your help.
Tessa Marinello
Tessa Marinello
Because of you, I felt educated and informed and respected. I felt confident in my choices to decline erythromycin but accept vitamin k, to decline pitocin post birth and be able to deliver my placenta also drug free, and my favorite picture above, to ask and assert myself and be the one to give my daughter her first bath. Thank you so much.
Amy Boutiette
Amy Boutiette
Thank you for sharing your wisdom & knowledge during these crazy times. I had my first home birth experience with our second son. I know every pregnancy and birth experience is different (even for the same mama) but I felt much more prepared. Even though my first was also a natural birth (just in the hospital), this time wasn't as scary or painful. Thanks for giving me (and all women) the confidence to feel empowered during my birth experience.
Joya Elmore
Joya Elmore
I went from planning a hospital birth with all the pain meds to switching to midwifery care at 20 weeks and embracing the idea of natural birth. Aviva Romm, I could not have done this without your online classes. This feels like such an accomplishment for me and I can’t thank you enough for the beautiful gift you have given myself and countless other mamas. You are an angel.
Mallory Quinn
Mallory Quinn
I went into labor feeling so empowered and confident because of you and I’ll be forever grateful for your wisdom and support. I was in labor for 25 hours and had a natural birth and such a positive hospital experience, I’ll look back on it forever with positive (& painful) memories! I had always wanted a natural birth but was scared, I feel I was able to do that because of your guidance and insights. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
Sandra Letenzi
Sandra Letenzi
Dr Aviva your prenatal classes were key to us having the birth experience we dreamed of! ❤️ heartfelt thanks to you and your team.
Tiffanie K. Rainville
Tiffanie K. Rainville

Meet Dr. Aviva

Aviva Romm MD is a world-renowned midwife and herbalist who also happens to be a Yale-trained MD and Board Certified Family Physician with specialties in Integrative Gynecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics. A long-time home birth pioneer and birth activist, Dr. Romm is keenly committed to patient empowerment, and addressing health inequity, racism, sexism, and other biases in medicine, particularly in women’s and maternal health. She is the author of the textbook, Botanical Medicine for Women’s health, and her latest book Hormone Intelligence, an instant NYT Bestseller, explores the intersection of the world we live in and women’s hormones and health, inviting women into a whole new conversation about our hormones, bodies and health. Her podcast, articles, books, and online programs are wildly popular and successful, helping women take back their health. She practices medicine in both NY and MA, and lives in the Berkshires of Western MA. She's also the mother of four, and grandmother of two, that she had the privilege to midwife into the world.


It’s time to reclaim pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. It's time to reclaim our bodies and power. Join today and let's do this, together.

 

I’m so excited to share The Mama Pathway with you, and to support you on your pregnancy, birth, and mama journey!

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Mama Pathway FAQs

These classes are for anyone in their childbearing years who is looking for preconception, prenatal, labor + birth prep, postpartum, new baby, and motherhood support, resources, tools, and community. And birth workers who are looking to deepen their knowledge and broaden their toolset will gain from these high level classes as well. 

Q&A Sessions with Dr. Aviva are all live. Mama Pathway classes are generally pre-recorded so that you can enjoy at your own convenience and re-watch freely. Special events as they arise, may be live, but will generally be recorded and available later. 

Each class in every Mama Pathway course will be recorded and posted to the course site, so that you can watch (and rewatch!) at your convenience. You will also be able to download just the audio versions if you prefer to just listen. 

Yes, a few different ways! There will be Q+A opportunities after live classes, in monthly Q+A sessions, and in the private community. I can't wait to connect with you.

Yes…and so much more. The Mama Pathway will cover everything you need to know for birth prep – but it is not just a birth prep course. Mama Pathway is your birth education course + 24/7 community of like-minded mamas and birth workers. 

An amazing group of CNMs, IBCLCs, Doulas, MDs, childbirth educators, and others, who have all studied with Aviva are often in the community answering questions, in addition to Aviva and the Mama Pathway Manager. However, answers in the Mama Pathway are not medical advice and do not take the place of a qualified medical provider.

You can cancel your membership’s automatic renewal at any time—just opt-out in your account settings. However, if you don’t find the tools and support you need within the first 14 days, please reach out to [email protected] and we will offer you a full refund.