Our most in-depth, comprehensive, and community-building class.

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15 hours, $525

• Week One: Intro to birth, understanding labor discomfort, breathing and relaxation techniques

• Week Two: Stages of labor, your body’s innate skills, the power of visualizations, how doulas can help

• Week Three: Your senses in labor, practice hands-on comfort techniques and labor positions

• Week Four: Interventions, understanding inductions, what to expect from and how to communication with your care team, pain medication options

• Week Five: Assisted delivery, complications, birth visits, communication with your team

• Week Six: Postpartum recovery, your newborn, review & practice, blessing

• Every class includes hands-on practice, time for connecting with other parents, and a reunion after our babies have arrived!

Fast-paced weekend class that provides an overview of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum.

6 hours, $295

Get an overview of:

• Stages of labor, physiologic birth

• Labor positions and comfort measures

• Birth choices, informed decision-making, and advocacy

• Pain medication options

• Postpartum recovery

Hands-on workshop focused on learning - and practicing - comfort techniques and labor positions.

3 hrs, $120

We cover:

• Baby’s position & pelvic dynamics

• Breathing & vocalization

• Massage, acupressure, and touch

• Affirmations and visualizations

• Labor and pushing positions

Focused on helping parents get off to a good start with breast/chestfeeding right from birth. Partners and support people are encouraged to attend! Taught by the experts at East Bay Lactation Associates.

2.5 hrs, $75

Topics include:

• Building a robust milk supply

• Achieving comfortable breastfeeding

• Understanding newborn feeding cues

• Strategies to prevent/address common difficulties

• Ways to support breastfeeding parent

We’ll focus on the skills and knowledge you need to be prepared for your first weeks at home with your little one.

4 hrs, $175

Topics include:

• Newborn appearance and temperament

• Communication and feeding cues

• Baby behavior

• Diapering

• Bathing

• Swaddling

• Dressing

• Crying and soothing

• Safe sleep

• Feeding

• Baby gear

• Health concerns: what to watch out for

And much more!

Interactive workshop emphasizing labor support techniques and tools for the birthing person and birth team.

3 hours, $100

Topics include:

• Debriefing the first labor/birth

• Goals for the second (or third) birth

• Overview of birth process the 2nd/3rd time

• Breath work, sounding, staying in the moment

• Comfort techniques and labor positions

• How pushing is different the second time

• Role of support team

• Wise use of medications

• Plans for older children during and after birth

Explore your feelings and learn how a cesarean birth can be a joyful birth experience! If you have discovered that your baby is breech or there are placenta problems or other reasons necessitating an unexpected cesarean delivery, please contact us even at the last minute so we can help you prepare.

2 hrs, $75

Topics include:

• Your concerns and fears

• Suggestions for transitioning into baby’s birth

• Protocols and procedures

• Options such as the parents viewing the baby as they are born, skin to skin contact, and breast/chestfeeding in the OR

• Contributions of a birth team or doula

• Ways to make the experience as fulfilling and comfortable as possible

• Plans for breast/chestfeeding and postpartum recovery

• Simple stress reduction techniques for surgery preparation and for parenting

Our VBAC workshop is for pregnant folks who have had a cesarean birth and are considering a vaginal birth for the next baby.

3 hrs, $100

Topics include:

• Risks of both cesarean and VBAC to birthing person and to baby

• Advantages of vaginal birth to birthing person and baby

• Feelings about both repeat cesarean and trial of labor

• Emotional hurdles

• Ways for birth team to provide positive reinforcement and support

Workshop includes a refresher childbirth prep class. We will learn and practice coping techniques for labor, discuss how to build your support system, and develop strategies to maximize the chances of having a vaginal birth. Be empowered with education, practice, and support!