WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

The In-Person Birth Village Class has six sessions that are designed to thoroughly prepare you and your support person for birth and the newborn/postpartum time.

Class 1: Preparing for Birth

preparing your mind and emotions for birth
preparing your body for birth
understanding labor pain
choosing your birth team
identifying your birth philosophy

Class 2: How Birth Works

the process of labor and birth
what you can do to help labor progress well
how to support a person giving birth
comfort measures for labor
positions for labor and birth

Class 3: The Medical Side of Birth

using your senses to cope with labor pain
what evidence-based care is and why it can be hard to get
common medical interventions in labor and birth
medical pain relief options
making decisions about interventions
communicating effectively with your health care team

Class 4: After Baby is Born:

how to soothe a newborn
the benefits of skin-to-skin contact with baby
newborn procedures
getting to know your newborn
caring for your postpartum body
safe sleep

Class 5:

Feeding your baby

Class 6:

labor rehearsal
review
building your tribe

(The Self-Paced online class is condensed into 4 Classes that cover the content for classes 1-5)

This class is designed to prepare anyone for any kind of birth. It offers robust preparation that will help get you ready for an unmedicated, all-natural birth, if that's what you want, but it will also help prepare those who know already that they want pain medication. The goal of this class is to help you feel confident and to help you take ownership of your birth. You can do it! And we can help you be ready.