childbirth
classes
homebirth focused and midwifery-inspired childbirth classes
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Educate yourself as much as possible. Studies show you’re going to have a higher satisfaction on how your birth goes the more educated you are in the childbirth process.
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Class 01: childbirth education
First class is all about how you can today take steps to improve your childbirth experience during pregnancy. We’ll also cover normal mammal birth and what to expect when you give birth at the hospital.
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Class 02: Sensations of labor
We’re going to talk about the environment we’re laboring in and how we can use our senses to add to the birthing experience. There will also be coaching about the benefits of mama’s movement and partner’s hands on techniques.
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Class 03: New Beginning
Let’s create a healing postpartum sanctuary for you to heal, recover, and love on your new baby. For baby care, we’ll talk about Attachment Parenting and Montessori Baby and how it compliments your experience as a mama.
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class 04: Feed baby
This intensive class covers the initiation of breastfeeding and the importance of each person on your support team and the role they play. Learn all of your feeding and milk options. Then we’ll end the class with introducing solids.
Class structure
These private classes are 2-3 hours long in your home.
Johnson City, TN
Bristol, TN and VA
Kingsport, TN
and other surrounding areas
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Let’s schedule classes
childbirth classes are personalized for you
I love teaching private in-home childbirth classes because we can get deeper into your goals and questions. The class can focus on entirely on your needs, preferences, and concerns. We cover physiological and intervention birth, whether we’re planning to give birth at home or the hospital. We’ll cover the potential tools you might encounter so you’ll be aware and educated in the event that you would need them.
We use our BRAIN accronym for each one so we’ll review the Benefits, Risks, Alternatives, Intuition, and Next steps. Learning about these topics in a low pressure environment can help reduce the fear of the unknown as you get closer to going into labor and giving birth.
Also, I’ve been attending births in the surrounding hospital monopoly for almost a decade. I’ve worked at the location you’re giving birth at and there’s a chance I’ve worked a birth with your OBGYN or midwife before and can share stories of what I’ve witnessed.
My goal for childbirth education is to help you reach YOUR goals, whatever they may be.
We can practice the different movements and massages and jiggling and squeezing in the comfort and privacy of your own home. It’s a great way to envision yourself in labor. What labor during the different phases might look like. Uses your home and the belongings you already have as tools. The different considerations of where you might place the birth tub. Maybe some additional tools you can get so you’ll have on hand for your birth team to best support you. Private in-home childbirth classes are highly personalized and catered to you. We’ll take the pace that you need. Slowing down and giving the space to have more in-depth conversations about topics that you’re most interested in learning more about and breeze through the topics that you’re less interested in learning.
We’ll schedule the childbirth classes during a time that’s convenient for your schedule, too. These classes are perfect for busy parents, experienced parents, or you’ve “waited too late to start learning” parents.
My childbirth classes are the perfect recipe for more confidence, less fear, and better birth outcomes.
Classes are $175 each. Bundle 2 classes in one day to save!