Mindful Childbirth / Holistic Pregnancy Class

Prepare for your successful natural birth with an integrated technique to natural labor with a comprehensive natural birth curriculum, yoga techniques, visualizations, relaxation techniques and labor rehearsals.

These classes provide women with the information they need to be prepared for the adventure of birth. Additionally, by allowing women and their partners to feel comfortable with normal labor and birth, and to gain an understanding of the physical changes that occur in pregnancy, women become confident and empowered to take on the challenges of childbirth.

Our natural childbirth preparation classes are designed to offer couples a well-rounded, accessible curriculum. You will learn what possible things to expect, develop an understanding of what the normal range of labor is, how to develop a birth plan that works for you, how to communicate positively with your birth team to achieve the birth experience you would like.

You will acquire information about the birthing process and will feel prepared to respond positively to whatever their journey turns out to be.  In addition to being able to successfully birth your baby, it is of the utmost important to remain "in tact."  We will discuss and explore ways to prepare for this process so you will have these options as well.

An Integrated Approach to Childbirth Education

Our curriculum is a compilation of the best parts from the most popular methods (Bradley Method, Hypno Birthing, Birthing from Within, Lamaze and more!). There is no one right way to labor. We stand by the philosophy that birth is a normal process and hope to inspire confidence in the couples that we teach. It is our goal to teach the full spectrum of options a woman has when preparing for her birth, and then to support her unconditionally. The most important way to approach your birth is with confidence and relaxation.

What Will We Learn?

Class is a blend of lecture, video, demonstration, and practice and will include, but not be limited to:

• Gestation and Anatomy
• Preparing your Body and How to Adapt To Its Changes
• Signs and Stages of Physical and Emotional Signposts of Labor
• Pain Management Techniques including breathing, relaxation, position choices, massage techniques, pressure points, hydrotherapy, aromatherapy options, vocalization, and much more...
• Birth Plans/Birth Preference Sheets/Birth Vision
• How to work with your birth partner / labor coach
• Labor Support--who to have at your birth
• Risk and Benefits of Common Interventions and Induction
• Cesarean Birth and Prevention
• Postpartum Health and Breastfeeding]

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