Mindful Birthing Class Series

Evidence-Based Childbirth Education for families planning or considering a natural birth.
Weekly themes include: Choices, Creation, Connection, Trust, Acceptance, and Metamorphosis.

Held three consecutive Wednesday evenings from 6-8:30

*Begins on the 2nd Wednesday of the following months: Feb., April, June, Aug., Oct., Dec.

Class 1

Choices & Creation
Introductions: Names and other information Discussion: Long term impact of the birth experience on a woman and family

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 & Trust
Discuss both partners emotions & fears around labor and birth

Emotional needs of birthing women

Emotional response to pain
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
Discuss common labor variations, stalling at various stages and non-medicated solutions

Back Labor

Class 3

Acceptance & Metamorphosis
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
Becoming a Mother/Father

Postpartum recovery of mom and baby

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

Newborn care, sleep patterns

Review all coping techniques

Reunion (Scheduled after all babies are born)
Potluck Meal

Birth stories

Group picture of all babies and families

Class Fee: $250/couple (+$50 discount to midwifery and doula clients)

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

*Check the calendar page for upcoming class dates and times!*