How to Prepare for Your Birth So You Can Go Into Labor Feeling Ready, Realistic, and Confident in Your Own Abilities and Instincts

In this unique, interactive, content-packed class, you'll learn:

✓The most important things to know about what's going on in your pregnant, birthing, and postpartum body
✓How labor really works and the essential tips and tricks you and your birth partner will need to help you cope
✓What to expect when things don't go exactly as you planned, and how to avoid some of the most common complications
✓How you can make informed decisions and still feel empowered no matter what

You're going to LOVE this class, especially if you...

✓ Are holistically minded and conscious of what goes into your body and how it can affect your baby
✓ Are up at night thinking about how your birth is going to go and wondering if you will be ready
✓ Have talked to your husband about whether he feels ready to support you through it all, even if labor is long and hard or throws any curve balls your way
✓ Spend hours reading or researching online for how to manage your pregnancy discomforts or labor and birth

The topics we will cover...

  • Introduction to maternity care
  • The physiology of pregnancy
  • Development of the fetus
  • Prenatal and postpartum exercises
  • The physiology of labor
  • Coping techniques for labor
  • Nutrition for pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • What your birth partner / labor coach needs to know: basic things to remember!
  •  Visualization and relaxation during pregnancy and birth
  • Complications during pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and the newborn
  • Common medications and interventions during labor
  • Postpartum physiology and adjustment
  • Newborn physiology and adjustment
  • The basics of parenting an infant and young child
  • The basics of lactation and infant feeding

Nurtured Mommy offers Childbirth Education as an 8 week group series, and as a private 4 week class (private classes run longer).  You are welcome to choose what better suits your needs.  The advantage of a group class is that it gives you the opportunity to get to know other couples who are going through similar experiences alongside you.  The private class is more flexible in terms of scheduling and it is geared entirely towards your specific circumstances, needs, and hopes for your birth.  Both classes have a relatively informal educational structure and both allow time for individual questions and concerns.
Each group series is $300.  Private classes are $600 for the set of four (approx. 3 hrs. each) and private classes can be done in person or via Zoom.