We meet on Zoom over four sessions; two hours each. We schedule our time together when it works for you. We reschedule if something comes up (which inevitably happens in life). If you get too tired or oversaturated, we stop and pick up where we left off at our next session. You can wear what you want, eat while we work, let your dog out, meet my dogs (Baloo & Keeper) and use your own bathroom. Sounds pretty great, right?
Our time together can be the difference between a birth experience you feel really good about or an experience you just get through.
Everyone’s goal is obviously a healthy mother and a healthy baby, but a good birth also includes a healthy experience. You come away feeling good about yourself, your partner and your birth, even if things didn’t go the way you thought they would.
A good birth experience starts with you. Taking a look at what you know about your expectations, your fears, your needs and your own coping strategies. You’ll learn about evidence-based birth, your options and how to advocate for yourselves with your team. This all leads to an experience that fits you, rather than fitting yourself into some version of an institutional experience.
Take a look below for more details on all that we cover.
“What month in pregnancy should we start Good Birth Class?”
I figure the sooner you start learning about the birth process, the sooner you can start discussing what comes up for you with your care providers, get clear around what you need and how to set yourselves up to have that in place.
Click for what we’ll coverTopics include:
- Creating your Collaborative Birth Team: who do you want with you for support at your birth?
- How birth works, recognizing labor, what to do at home in early labor and when to leave for the hospital or birth center
- Understanding Informed Consent and advocating for what you need
- Laboring in a way that works for you, even when things don’t happen the way you envisioned
- Customizing strategies for labor (positions, breathing, relaxation and rituals) based on what you already do in your everyday life
- Pain Medication: your expectations, your fears, choosing the medication/s and dosage that’s right for you (not just what you’d be given) based on what’s going on in your labor and what you need the medication to do
- Laboring in bed with an epidural as though you don’t have one to keep your labor moving forward
- Cesarean Birth: why it happens, avoiding an unnecessary Cesarean and Family Centered Cesarean
- You and baby just after delivery