Throughout your life, you prepare for events that matter: education, career, and marriage, for example.  Giving birth should be no exception.  These traditional classes are an alternative to HypnoBirthing® for those couples who are unable to commit to a five-week course.  The classes assist you in preparing for the birth of your child and the post-partum period. You will become aware that childbirth is a special, joyful experience, and gain confidence in your body's ability to give birth.  

The following is an outline of the class content.  Please understand that each class is individually designed and may not follow this exact order.

Class 1

• Listen and connect with your body:  focus on flowing with your body. Become more aware of your surges/waves (contractions).
• Functions of the uterus: dilation / effacement / station / position of the baby
• Spiral of baby: baby drops into the pelvis
• Labor warm-ups
• The power of the mind: you set the tone for the experience you will have, regardless of the outcome.  You allow yourself to open to the "marrying" of the physical and the mental, thus eliminating fear
• The Convincer: a practice meditation

Class 2

• Talk about fears: how fears entrap us and stagnate the birth process
• Strip away fears: replace fears with positive imagery, including a drawing of one's ideal birth
• Nourishing the body: a benefit for both mother and child

Class 3

• Combining positive thoughts and imagery with knowledge of the body. Practice labor with ice for 30/60/90 seconds
• Comfort measures
• Newborn care: essential information for going home with your newborn
• Breastfeeding
• Post-partum care: involution and more