Jennifer Averill Moffitt, CNM, MSN, MBCPTc, is the Perinatal Services Manager at the Family Health Center of Worcester in Massachusetts. She also serves as the Director of Community Partnerships and as a senior faculty member at Mindful Birthing. Jen has been a midwife since 2003 and has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) since 2014, following intensive training with MBCP founder Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA, MBCPTc. 

As a Fulbright scholar and experienced perinatal professional, Jen has dedicated her career to working with high-risk, marginalized, and underserved populations. Her passion lies in the intersection of mindfulness, birth, early parenting, and health equity—as both intervention and prevention. This passion drives her ongoing commitment to training and mentoring perinatal and mental health professionals to deliver the MBCP program around the world. 

Learn more here: http://mindfulbirthing.org 

00:00:00 - Jennifer Moffitt introduces herself, students introduce themselves
00:12:39 - Jennifer introduces the topic and guides a brief mindfulness practice
00:29:07 - The impact of mindful birthing on birthing outcomes
00:39:29 - The nature of pain and its role in transformation
00:46:49 - Mindful birthing teachers versus doulas or midwives
00:54:58 - An overview of the mindful birthing teacher training program
01:08:44 - The mindful birthing course structure
01:19:02 - Certification and where mindful birthing is taught
01:25:38 - Mindful birthing and the value of accepting uncertainty