Topics include:
- What to expect physically from your newborn during the first weeks.
- How to create a safe and secure sleep environment with swaddling.
- Maximizing weight gain techniques.
- Learn the why, how, and strategies for successful burping.
- Trouble shooting the cause and ways to reduce gas.
- How to change a diaper, types of stool, and how to care for umbilical cord, circumcision, and skin.
- Best techniques to create a happy bath time.
- Learn ways to soothe a crying baby and maximize your sleep and theirs.
- How to recognize and treat colic, jaundice, dehydration, and reflux.
$80 for a reservation for each pregnant person and their partner.
Why Take A Childbirth Class?
A Childbirth Education Class can help prepare expecting parents and their support person for the changes that occur during pregnancy and what to expect during birth. Being prepared and having a plan for how you will approach this very important time can help you create a labor and birthing experience in tune with your desires.
Some of the benefits this Childbirth Class are:
- Understand the normal changes that occur in the body
throughout childbirth.
- Become educated on the procedures and interventions that are
common during labor and birth.
- Learn basic support and comfort techniques for the laboring
person.
- Learn different pain management and comfort techniques including
breathing and positioning.
- Address fears and get answers to your questions.
The time spent in class will not only educate expecting parents and their support person, but it will also bring them closer, help them create a plan, and become more confident in their decisions while understanding each other’s roles.
This valuable class covers a great deal of information is a short amount of time.
$150 for the expecting parent and their support person
Pre-registration required. Minimum registration required for workshop to run.
This postpartum workshop will ease your transition into life with your newborn, including ways to support your physical recovery such as padsicles, sitz baths, nipple and breast care, abdominal support and nutritional recommendations. We also discuss the importance of your emotional and mental well-being. This comprehensive class covers everything you need to know and answers questions you didn't know to ask. Our focus is on education and preparation so your focus can be healing, resting, and loving your baby. It is intended that you take the class before your baby arrives, so you can feel prepared for the fourth trimester!
Pre-registration required. Minimum registration required for workshop to run.
$75 per reservation for each pregnant person. Partners are welcome
and encouraged to join.
*This registration is for in person attendance* In person
participation will remain limited. Please have a baby doll or
stuffed animal available for the class.
Preparing to meet your baby is emotional, psychological, and physical preparation that takes courage, curiosity, and patience.
Birthing From Within Birth childbirth classes are designed to meet you wherever you are and however you feel about labor, birth, and welcoming a new baby. These classes offer thoughtful, non-judgmental guidance through questions, reflection, and experiential learning in class.
Inspired and influenced by the landmark books by author and visionary, Pam England - Birthing From Within & Ancient Maps for Modern Birth as well as Ina May Gaskin's Guide to Childbirth, Emily Oesters Expecting Better and many more, Rebecca's classes are solution-oriented, experiential, and useful in guiding parents through what they will need to birth mindfully, no matter what happens.
Classes cover:
- Mindful, breath-centered pain-coping practices, useful to BOTH parents during labor + birth
- The stages of labor + what it might look like emotionally, physically, + psychologically
- Exploring & supporting birth partner's role as the guardian of the birth space including offering ways they may support birthing person and themselves through each stage of the process
- Hands-on practice for physical comfort in labor including labor + birth positions and using a Rebozo
- How to ask questions of + get information from care providers + create a supportive birth environment WITH them by creating a Birth Preference List - learning what it is + isn’t!
- Medical pain-relief, including the Epidural + how to know how to work together to determine when those options might be helpful+ compassionate choices.
- Cesarean birth options + designing a family-centered Cesarean birth preference list
- Birth, pushing + how to use your breath & body to guide your baby out
- The first 40 days of postpartum care for the entire family including designing a postpartum plan
- Weekly emails with extra resources
Investment: $375 for the birthing parent and partner. Minimum registration required. We recommend starting this class no later than 32 weeks.
Prenatal Partner Yoga is a unique and nurturing practice designed to strengthen the bond between expecting parents while preparing for the journey of childbirth. This supportive class combines gentle yoga poses, breathwork, and mindfulness techniques that couples can practice together to enhance physical comfort, emotional connection and mutual understanding.
Partners play an active role in assisting with poses, offering stability, and helping alleviate tension, making it a shared experience of relaxation and teamwork. Prenatal Partner Yoga also provides tools for labor and delivery, such as breathing exercises and supportive positions, fostering confidence and trust in as you approach the transformative moment of labor and delivery together.
Some of the benefits include:
* An increase in body awareness and ability to breathe through the
moment.
* Helps increase confidence in birth partners and their ability to
support the birthing mom.
* Partner assists allow for deeper release in yoga poses, allowing
for more effective relief from common issues that arise in the
pregnant body such as back pain, sciatica, leg cramps, leg
swelling, acid reflux, exhaustion, stiff muscles, and/or
insomnia.
* Releases oxytocin, which assists in shifting out of fight/flight mode and into the parasympathetic mode, thus increasing feelings of safety, relaxation, pleasure, and connection.
* Brings awareness to multiple areas of the body at once, helping to diffuse mental tension and refresh the nervous system.
* Creates a fun, expressive experience of unity and trust between partners, and creates a nurturing time and space to connect with your new baby.
This class is suitable for all levels and offers a beautiful way to connect with your partner and prepare couples with practical tools, building confidence as they approach birth as a team. *All participants must be registered separately.