Class One: Birth culture, your birth goals, choosing a provider, nutrition and health, anatomy and physiology of childbirth, the stages of labor, due dates, and what is “evidence-based care”?

Class Two: labor comfort measures, labor coping techniques, breathing techniques and practice, unmedicated pain management techniques, laboring at home, the hospital, and birth center, making the most of pushing, suggestions for the birth partner, use of a doula

Class Three: Shared decision making, informed consent, 3rd trimester medical interventions, medical interventions in labor, labor with an epidural, medical inductions, family centered cesareans, writing your birth preferences

Class Four: choosing a pediatrician, newborn procedures, recovery in the hospital/birth center/home, settling in at home, “the fourth trimester”, life with your newborn, the physical and mental recovery after birth, preparing for postpartum, getting established with breastfeeding

All class registrants will receive 2 educational newsletters, a 140 page student workbook, access to my private client portal full of resources and literature, a private 20 minute birth preferences planning meeting, unlimited text and email support for the duration of the class, weekly exercises and homework, and a discount code for a breastfeeding class taught by a leading IBCLC practice.