Childbirth Classes

Our bodies were designed to give birth. And, in many cultures, birth is viewed as a natural and normal event. Women in those cultures are raised surrounded by the event, understanding it and viewing it from a young age - how to birth is innate knowledge. Not so in our culture.

As such, childbirth classes from an independent childbirth educator can help a woman reclaim that knowledge and understanding of their amazing body, this amazing ability to give birth, and how to care for their amazing newborn!

I offer many different childbirth education courses:

A complete and comprehensive childbirth education program, this course examines what research shows to be safest and most effect for pregnancy, birth, and the newborn. It is broken down into 6 classes. Through hands-on learning, education, and interesting activities, workbook course work, videos, and demonstrations, women and their birth partners will learn valuable information and relaxation techniques to help them gain confidence in themselves and their births.

This course covers the following information:

• Nutrition and Exercise
  
• The Physical, emotional and mental attributes of each stage of labor
  
• Medications and interventions
  
• Natural comfort measures and positions for labor and birth
  
• How to choose a birth team and birth place
  
• How to communicate with your birth team and write a birth plan
  
• Variations, unexpected situations, and emergency childbirth
  
• After baby arrives, what to expect of your body
  
• Breastfeeding and newborn care

Help in making the best choices in childbirth is the best preparation for a safe and healthy birth. $210

Wonderfully Made Christian Childbirth Education - 

A complete and comprehensive childbirth education program, this Christian course examines what the Bible says about pregnancy, birth, and the newborn. It is broken down into 6 classes. Through hands-on learning, education, and interesting activities, workbook course work, videos, and demonstrations, women and their birth partners will learn valuable information and relaxation techniques to help them gain confidence in themselves and their births.

This course covers the following information:

• Nutrition and Exercise
  
• The Physical, emotional and mental attributes of each stage of labor
  
• Medications and interventions
  
• Natural comfort measures and positions for labor and birth
  
• How to choose a birth team and birth place
  
• How to communicate with your birth team and write a birth plan
  
• Variations, unexpected situations, and emergency childbirth
  
• After baby arrives, what to expect of your body
  
• Breastfeeding and newborn care

Healing Birth Options - 

This is a 6-hour course designed to equip women planning to VBAC with the tools specific to besting their chances at a successful VBAC. This class covers:

• Healing birth through touch and talk
• Your Birth Team
• Your Labor and Birth
• The ample pelvis
• Hurdles of the VBAC and how to overcome
  
• Relaxation techniques and practice

This course is completed in one workshop. $100

Weekend of Relaxation - 

This in-home, private, intensive weekend course is designed to equip couples with practical tools to help them navigate the journey into parenthood when they have chosen a home birth. The class covers:

• Basic anatomy of pregnancy
• Stages of labor and their emotional/physical signs
• Needs of a laboring woman
• Natural labor and active birthing techniques for coping/assisting the process
• Massage
• Relaxation through imagery, progressive relaxation, and conditioned/cued response
• Developing a birth vision
• In the event of a transport
• Birth Teams, roles and responsibilities, and how to cope with un-supportive family and friends

After the class, we keep in contact through a community group to offer encouragement and birth stories. $150