Approach your birth with calm and confidence.
Pregnancy and childbirth are the most intimate and transformative experiences in a woman’s life and should be prepared for as such. You’ve planned all the details from the crib sheets to the car seat to the diaper brand. Now it’s time to focus on how your baby will meet you Earth-side. The power to make informed decisions backed by evidence-based research leaves you in control of your body and your baby, so that you can give birth your way.
I offer group childbirth education classes in-person at various locations in Northern Virginia and via Zoom for families all over the United States. I teach an evidence-based curriculum designed to educate, inform, and empower parents to make choices that are right for your unique family. The purpose of this curriculum is to inform parents of what labor looks like at different stages, coping and comfort measures during labor, common interventions used in hospital settings, options you have as they pertain to you and your baby’s care, establishing birth preferences, the transition into postpartum, and an introduction to breastfeeding. I am also a Professional Member of Evidence Based Birth, giving my childbirth education students an enhanced experience with access to tons of online resources.
A standard childbirth education class is held over four weeks, lasting three hours per session. I also offer condensed versions of this class periodically or at the request of my clients. The full series is outlined below.
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
Childbirth education classes are best recommended for the second and third trimesters.
Please see the Investments page for condensed class offerings and further details.
Upcoming Classes
12-Hour Full Series Class
best suited for late second trimester or any time in the third trimester. it is never too early or too late to get informed of the options available to you to enhance your birthing experience.
I have no upcoming in person classes scheduled for 2024.
Self-paced virtual classes are available by emailing me.
All class registrants will receive 2 educational newsletters, a 140 page student workbook, access to my private client portal full of resources and literature, recordings of all four-classes, a private 45 minute birth preferences planning meeting, unlimited text and email support for the duration of the class, and weekly exercises and homework.
Self-paced Virtual classes:
is your due date rapidly approaching and you missed your chance to take live, in-person classes? do you work shift work and cannot facilitate Sunday afternoons? is your partner traveling for work and you need to work through these classes from different computers or time zones?
have no fear! just send me an email and request the recordings from a prior class. you’ll receive your very own google drive link to access all the same content students who attend live do, homework included! plus you’ll get a 1 hour zoom call with upon class completion to create you birth plan and answer any questions you have!
Cost: $350.00
send an email to Lauren@fairfaxbirthcare.com to request this option.
BONUS CLASSES
PREPARING FOR POSTPARTUM
your guide to navigating “the fourth trimester” at home with your baby.
Pre-recorded virtual webinar offering.
If you’ve been wondering what postpartum will be like, or if you are transitioning from one to two or more children, this webinar is for you!
In this two hour webinar, we will be discussing the physical, emotional, and mental recovery after birth; diet, nutrition, and rest needs; relationship changes; transitioning from 1-2+ kids; boundary setting; building your postpartum support team, and more!
$45 gets you 30-day access to this webinar, 6 postpartum worksheets to prepare you for the best postpartum experience, plus printable freezer meal recipe cards and parenting affirmation cards!
EMAIL me to register for this webinar.
lauren@fairfaxbirthcare.com
INFANT CPR + FIRST AID CLASS
Do you know how to respond if your infant or child is choking or needs CPR?
please email Karen Holland at gr8scotkh@gmail.com to set up a private in-home class!
Private, in-home childbirth education
A premium for busy family who cannot attend group classes, need a condensed version, and still desire the in-person experience.
This class is entirely customizable because it’s just your family, in your home! Upon booking, we will schedule a 30 minute Zoom call to navigate exactly what you hope to pull from your private class. I will leave with a better understanding of your birth vision and goals and then tailor the curriculum to the set number of hours we have agreed upon.
In addition to your private, in-home education experience, you will receive a myriad of online resources and supplemental educational material. We will schedule a one hour Zoom call to draft and review your Birth Plan and answer any questions you have. You will have unlimited email and text communication with me up to your labor to answer questions and brainstorm.
I offer private classes in 4 or 6-hour sessions.
4 hour class = 1 session
6 hour class = 2 sessions
Investment: starts at $500.
Inquire for availability and additional information via email.
Please email lauren@fairfaxbirthcare.com to sign up for classes.
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