Labor Live
November 1 to 3, 2026 · Live
Go through labor before you go into labor.
A 3-Day Interactive Birth Simulation
You can read about birth all day long. Labor Live lets you practice it.
For 72 hours, you'll move through one simulated birth in real time. Your water may break. Contractions will change. Recommendations will be made. Plans may pivot. Your phone will ask you to make the kinds of decisions pregnant women usually encounter for the first time while they're actually in labor.
Except this time, you're practicing.
New month. New birth. New decisions. New confidence.
Starts Sunday, November 1 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern. Doors close October 31.
This isn't a course you watch. It isn't a PDF you download and never open. It's a labor that happens to you, in real time, on the same clock as every other pregnant woman in the cohort.
This round runs three days. Labor Live comes back every month with a different birth, because no two months will be the same, just as no two births are the same. Every round, you'll pick up new skills, have new conversations, and learn new questions to ask so you can advocate for what you want, whether your birth goes according to plan or it doesn't.
By the time it's over, you'll have made 24 real decisions. And you'll have said the sentence I hear from almost every student who's been through this:
“I didn't know that was an option.”
You're not underprepared. You're under-practiced.
Here's what usually happens.
You read the books. You take the hospital class. You write a birth plan. You feel ready.
Then at 4 a.m. on a Tuesday your provider says something you've never heard before, everyone in the room is looking at you, and you've got about ninety seconds to answer. Nobody explains your options because nobody has time to. So you say yes.
That isn't a knowledge problem. You knew things. It's a rehearsal problem. You'd never once practiced deciding.
“You have to” is not informed consent. It never was.
Try a Labor Live moment
It’s 11:43 p.m.
Your water broke 45 minutes ago.
Fluid is clear.
Baby is moving normally.
You aren’t having contractions.
Your provider says:
“I’d like you to come in.”
What would you do?
We practice everything else.
- We practice breathing.
- We practice pushing positions.
- We install the car seat before there’s a baby in it.
- We practice swaddling dolls.
- We tour the hospital.
- We pack the bag.
- We write the birth plan.
But somehow, we’re expected to practice making birth decisions for the first time while we’re actually making them.
The move from simply saying “Okay” to “Can you tell me why you're recommending it now? How is my baby doing? What happens if we wait?” won't magically happen when you’re 7cm dilated. It takes practice.
I don’t think that’s good enough.
So I built somewhere to practice.
Labor Live™.
Your birth isn’t the rehearsal.
This is.
Consider it a “practice run” of birth.
It's a rehearsal for the moments nobody warns you about.
For three days, your phone will ask you to decide before you feel ready, and every time, you'll learn what your options actually were.
You open the app and read what's actually happening. You read what the evidence says. You see your real options, laid out plainly, none of them wrong. You read what's worth considering. And then, knowing all of that, you choose.
Then you find out what everyone else chose.
A couple hours later, your labor updates again.
- 24 labor moments across three days, in real time
- 6 debrief videos from me, under ten minutes each
- Notifications that arrive when labor would actually send them, including overnight
- A live community of pregnant women going through the same labor at the same time
- Your own Birth Confidence Score, measured before and after
- Tools you keep on your phone until the day you go into labor for real
Walk in knowing your options.
A live labor, in real time, on your phone.
Day one · Sunday, November 1
It begins the way labor begins.
Quietly, and without telling you what it is yet. Your first updates arrive and you start deciding, before you feel ready, because that's when labor asks.
You won't know what's coming. That's the whole point.
Day two · Monday, November 2
It asks more of you.
The updates keep arriving, day and night. The decisions get bigger, the pressure gets realer, and you practice saying things out loud that most people never rehearse until the room is full.
This is where the reps start to feel like reps.
Day three · Tuesday, November 3
It keeps going after the baby arrives.
There's a whole stretch of decisions on the other side of birth that almost nobody prepares for. You'll practice those too.
By the end, you'll have made two dozen real decisions and you'll know exactly which ones you want more practice on.
What we're practicing toward
Before Labor Live
- “I hope I’ll know when to go in.”
- “I’ll just follow my birth plan.”
- “If my doctor recommends it, I guess I have to.”
- “I know I’m allowed to ask questions…but what do I ask?”
- “I hope my partner remembers what we learned.”
After Labor Live
- “I know what information I need before deciding when to leave.”
- “I know my birth plan isn’t the plan. It’s the starting point.”
- “I can ask why, what happens if we wait, and what my alternatives are.”
- “I’ve actually practiced saying the words.”
- “My partner has practiced right alongside me.”
This round runs November 1 to 3. A new labor every month.
Real-time labor updates. Real decisions. Over and over.
The situation.
What's happening right now, written the way it'll actually feel.
What the evidence says.
Before you choose. Not after. That's the entire difference between this and a quiz.
Your options.
Two or three of them, written plainly, with no correct answer hiding among them.
Things to consider.
The questions worth asking. The things that change the picture.
Your choice.
You pick one. It locks. You don't get to go back and change it, because in labor you don't either.
Then you see what the rest of us chose, and you get the deeper explanation, and you get one question to sit with if you want to.
The whole thing takes about two minutes.
You'll watch yourself get more prepared.
Before November 1, you'll answer twelve questions. Not knowledge questions. Confidence questions. How sure do you feel about knowing when to leave for the hospital? About saying no, or asking for more time?
You get a number. That's your starting point, and wherever it lands is fine.
On November 3, you'll answer them again.
Example
Recognizing labor
BeforeAfterUnderstanding interventions
BeforeAfterCommunication and advocacy
BeforeAfterComfort measures
BeforeAfterImmediate postpartum decisions
BeforeAfter
At the end, you'll see all of your strengths plus the areas that could use more practice. That way you aren't stuck guessing whether you've prepared enough. You'll KNOW you've prepared enough, and you'll have the reps to prove it.
And for the places that could use a few more practice rounds, each month's Labor Live will practice new skills or sharpen the ones you're currently working on.
This isn't a test and there are no wrong answers. I built it that way on purpose. An option earns credit when it reflects gathering information, asking what happens if you wait, or naming what you want. Not when it matches an answer key.
Find out where your score starts.
After November 3, most of this is still on your phone.
Your Birth Bag.
Every tool you collected along the way. The decision cards, the questions worth asking, the comfort measures, the partner script, the golden hour guide. Yours to download.
Your labor, re-readable.
Every moment you went through, saved, searchable, permanent. When you're 36 weeks and a real conversation comes up, you go back and read it again.
Your contraction timer.
Free forever. It tracks duration, spacing, and intensity, and it knows your target pattern.
Your hospital calculator.
Four questions, and it tells you the pattern to watch for based on how far you actually live from your hospital. Also free forever.
Those last two aren't a bonus. They're the reason this app stays useful until the day you actually go into labor.
What is $49 actually buying you?
$49 doesn’t buy you another childbirth class.
That's less than most hospital birth classes and a fraction of a single doula consult. For it, you get 24 real decisions, 6 debrief videos, and tools you keep until delivery day.
- It buys you somewhere to make the wrong call when nothing is actually at stake.
- Somewhere to realize, “I didn’t know I could ask that.”
- Somewhere to freeze.
- Somewhere to change your mind.
- Somewhere to discover what you don’t know yet.
- Somewhere for your partner to practice.
- Somewhere to build confidence before the room is real.
That’s what practice is for.
All of it is included. One price, $49.
This isn't a low-intervention birth simulation. It's an informed-decision birth simulation.
You can choose the epidural. You can choose Pitocin. You can choose to wait. You can ask for more information. You can change your mind.
The goal isn't to teach you what to choose. It's to make sure you're practiced at choosing.
One way in.
Labor Live
Everything included
$49
- All three days, all 24 labor moments
- All 6 debrief videos
- The Birth Room community for the full three days
- Your Birth Confidence Score, before and after
- Your Birth Bag and Birth Passport
- Contraction timer and hospital calculator, permanently
- Your labor archive, permanently
- 7 days of full app access
Doors close October 31. This is a live cohort, so there's no starting late.
Yours forever: the contraction timer, the hospital calculator, your Birth Bag, and your full labor archive. What ends after 7 days: the live updates, the Birth Room, and full app access.
Want more support? You can add VIP at checkout.
Buying for someone? You can send it as a gift at checkout.
Read this part honestly.
This is for you if:
- You're planning a hospital birth and you want to walk in knowing your options
- You want real information, not one-size-fits-all answers citing “hospital policy”
- You're more afraid of being steamrolled than you are of pain
- You're somewhere between 20 and 40 weeks, though any point in pregnancy works
- You want your partner to actually understand what is happening
This is not for you if:
- You want someone to tell you the right way to give birth. I'm not going to.
- You want a guarantee about how your birth will go. Nobody can give you that.
- You can't keep notifications on for three days.
And if you're planning an epidural from the start, you're welcome here. This isn't a natural birth challenge. It's an informed birth challenge, and those aren't the same thing.
Sounds like you? Doors close October 31.
Questions people ask first
Still have a question? Join and ask it inside the Birth Room.
This is a guide, not a medical assessment. Call your provider whenever you have a question, whatever the numbers say. Full terms and disclaimer.
November 1 to 3, 2026 · Doors close October 31 · Eastern time
You're going to make these decisions either way.
Your birth is going to happen whether or not you've practiced these scenarios or these decisions.
Labor Live gives you the tools to deeply think about and practice what you'd do in scenarios like your water breaking, when to leave home, the induction conversation, a Pitocin recommendation, pain relief, changes in your baby's heart rate, pushing, and decisions in the first few hours after birth.
The goal isn't perfection, it's practice. The more you practice making these decisions now, the easier it'll be to have the conversation while you're in labor.