Childbirth & Newborn Education

Individualized Childbirth:  Education & Empowerment
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Birth is a powerful event in your life as a mother and new family. This comprehensive class will help to eliminate fear by educating you about your body’s design for birth and the process of labor to meet your baby. Leave with resources, evidenced based research and mother-centered information.
Topics:

• Your rights as a childbearing woman
• Your anatomy and body’s design for birth
• Signs and stages of labor
• Purpose of contractions and the power of hormones
• Comfort measures, coping skills, relaxation tools
• Options, and choices for all stages of birth
• All the ways to meet your baby: natural, medicated birth, VBAC, Mother-Baby Friendly Cesarean
• Medical procedures and interventions- benefits and risks
• Important role of your birth team, setting and care providers
• Breastfeeding, and skin to skin bonding --the first hour with your baby
• Newborn procedures and first days with your baby

Details: Workshop is for pregnant mother and one labor support person or partner. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water bottle/ snacks. Snacks provided and lunch break @ 1 pm. Workbook and materials provided.
Recommended in 5-8th month of pregnancy
Instructor: Holly Flanagan, a birth doula and postpartum educator trained with Birthing Gently, Birth Arts International, BACE and Dona International.   www.growbirth.com
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Preparing for Baby:  The 4th Trimester

The 4th Trimester- What to expect your first 12 weeks together as a family

This interactive workshop is designed with hands-on strategies to help build your confidence in the "new normal" post birth--newborn care, bonding and soothing, breastfeeding and pumping, physical and emotional changes, sleep, baby wearing, and maternity leave/ transition to work.

Be prepared and connect with others in the same exciting but challenging stage of parenthood.

Instructor:  Holly Flanagan 
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When:  September 20th at 5:30pm
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Investment: $75 (mother plus 1)
$15 each additional family member or friend
**$225 for both Childbirth Education and 4th Trimester workshop - please mark in notes at checkout and a discount will be applied.​

Includes the 3 hr workshop, your first class at New Baby group, a binder with class handouts and resources and a postpartum gift bag with lactation tea, herbal bath and nipple cream.

Suggested time- 3rd trimester of pregnancy to newborn 0-3 months.

Led by a birth/postpartum doula and local mother of a toddler and a newborn.

www.growbirth.com


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