Mindful Birthing Class Series

Evidence-Based Childbirth Education for families planning or considering a natural birth.

Weekly themes include: Creation, Connection, Trust and Metamorphosis.

Held on Wednesday evenings for four consecutive weeks.                Please call for specific dates and times.

 

Class 1 Creation

Introductions

Birth Options: Understanding how birth works and making choices that support the process

Anatomy & Physiology of Late Pregnancy

All about labor and birth-how to know when you're in labor, stages of labor, natural labor coping techniques

 

Class 2 Connection

Discuss both partners emotions & fears around labor and birth

Emotional reposponse to pain and needs of birthing women

Importance of partner connection and support though the entire birth process

Connection with unborn baby on birth process

Importance of conscious communication with partner and birth team

Review stages of labor and natural coping techniques

 

Class 3 Trust

Dicuss slow to progress labors, back labor and other common variations of labor

The hospital: what to expect; electronic fetal monitoring; intravenous fluids; immediate procedures after birth for mom and baby.

Intervention Umbrella: induction & augmentation medications; pain relief with epidurals and narcotics; Instrumental delivery

Cesarean birth

 

Class 4 Metamorphosis

Becoming a mother/father

Postpartum recovery of mom and baby

Breastfeeding (positions, latch, diaper counts, pumping breast milk)

Basic newborn care

Review all coping techniques

 

Reunion (Scheduled after all babies are born)

Class Fee: $199/couple

Bring your pregnancy journal or a blank notebook to all our classes to start a log of your transformational journey through pregnancy into motherhood.    

Contact Kate for registration   707.483.7061