Waiting to Hatch: Holistic Childbirth Education and Preparation

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​This course is will include the following topics and is customized depending on whether you opt for an in-hospital birth, birth center, or home birth:

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• In-depth exploration of personal motivators and inner resources

• Partner bonding and inter-personal roles

• Preparing your body & labor welcoming techniques

• The physiologic stages and phases of labor and birth 

• Setting sacred space

• Comfort measures and coping techniques

• Building your support team

• Relationships with pain and/or prior trauma

• How to prepare your hospital bag and common reasons for hospital transfer

• Common medical interventions including: labor induction, fetal monitoring, and epidurals

• Emergent and operative birth

• Reviewing normal and expected vs abnormal and concerning

• Postpartum recovery & infant bonding

• Infant feeding including: breastfeeding, pumping, and alternative options

• Perinatal mood disorders during pregnancy and postpartum

• Transitioning to parenthood

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3 hour course - $350