The Essentials of Labor / The Essentials of Birth
The Essentials of Labor is a 4 hour comprehensive labor preparation class:
- Spinning Babies for Labor and Birth
- Understanding the Phases and Hormones of Labor
- Comfort Measures for labor
- Productive resting positions
- Epidural essentials for healthy fetal progress
The Essentials of Birth is an 7 hour Comprehensive Birth Education Class that covers all of the above plus the understanding risk, fetal monitoring, induction, interventions, assisted birth and cesareans and how to choose a provider.
This class combines Spinning Babies® essentials for labor and birth with a full overview of labor phases and comforts. Gain deeper knowledge of the phases of labor, how to use massage, tens units, water immersion, fascial release and movement to support yourself (or your partner) through labor. This class will help you deepen the understanding of the hormones of labor and how they affect you, and help you better understand what to do and when to do it, in your labor journey.
The Essentials of Labor is a 4 hour class and the cost is $225 per couple (class size is limited)
The Essentials of Birth is $325 and includes a meal break (please bring your meal!)
Mongan Method Hypnobirthing® Series
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free birth. This amazing program teaches you, along with your birth partner, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant, and therefore lessen, or eliminate, discomfort and the need for medical intervention. When you are properly prepared for childbirth and when the mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other mothers in nature. Through self-hypnosis and special breathing and visualization techniques, HypnoBirthing teaches you to release fear and to trust your body’s ability to birth instinctively. (for more info about HypnoBirthing go to https://hypnobirthing.com/course/)
Cost is $350 per couple (add Essentials of Labor on for 1/2 price)
- Please only register one time per couple (single birthing people welcome – same cost)
- Class Series are 5 weeks in a row from the start date of the class unless otherwise noted!
In Person Classes are taught by Bonnie Rovics from Boston Hypnobirth.
Virtual Classes are taught by Karen Zelinsky from Boston Birthing. Email Karen at karen@bostonbirthing.com to register.
Newborn Care
Learn From the Birth Savvy Nurses!
This class will cover Newborn Care Essentials Such As:
- Diapering, bathing and swaddling
- Umbilical Cord Care / Hygiene
- Safe Sleep Practices
- The emotional adjustment to new parenthood
- Hands on practice with baby dolls
Lactation & Infant Feeding
Learn From the Birth Savvy Nurses!
This Class will cover Breast / Chest and Bottle feeding basics
- Feeding Overview
- Bottle, Chest and Combo
- What’s normal vs. When to call the pediatrician
- Building a sustainable newborn routine