Preparing for Birth

A prepared birth is the best birth.

As your certified BEST childbirth instructor, I teach you everything you need to know to make informed, confident decisions about your birth and journey into parenthood with BEST’s Preparing for Birth curriculum.

Preparing for Birth is where intuition meets evidence-based birth. Our comprehensive birth course is for every birthing person. Physiological, medicated, vaginal, and cesarean birth are all included in this course. Preparing for Birth will leave you excited and ready for whatever birth you are planning.

My goal is for you to feel prepared, confident, and calm for your best birth. Partners love the course because every session includes partner tips and hands-on practice.

This course includes your Preparing for Birth Course Journal and a comprehensive two-hour infant feeding course, Prepared Feeding. This will help you continue preparing for your birth between our course sessions. Course meditations are also available

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Preparing for Birth.

A list for Session One with topics on childbirth and self-care, including who we are in birth, affirmations, checking reality, growing uterus, care providers, birth options, caring for body and baby, sitting and stretching, establishing touch, and calming meditations.
Agenda for Session Two with topics on nurturing ourselves, pregnancy journey, stages of birth, coping, connecting with baby, partner stretching, hips and belly comfort, guiding colors, and birth rehearsal.
A slide titled 'Session Three' listing topics: communication, policies, tests, procedures, birth plans, informed consent, the care of me, inductions; sections on being well (standing), comfort (sacrum and knees), and meditations (passion flower, active progressive relaxation).
Slide titled "Session Four" with topics including "where my baby lies," "my labor journey," "cesarean birth," and sections on wellness, comfort, and meditations.
A beige-colored poster listing topics for 'Session Five,' including pushing your placenta, first moments of postpartum, baby's first moments, care plan, breastmilk, healing after birth, and sections on being well, comfort, meditations, and meeting your baby.
A schedule for session six of a postpartum or parenting program, listing topics like relationships, adjusting to a new life, good babies, power of touch, baby needs, sleep, postnatal mental health, and self-care. It also includes sections on being well with restorative postpartum poses, comfort with booty and sits bones, and meditations with stepping stones. 
Preparing for Birth

Preparing For Birth is a 6 session comprehensive course designed for those wanting a low intervention hospital birth or those wishing to have an out of hospital birth. Each class lasts approximately 2-3 hours.
Also available as a private class.

Included:
12-15 hours of course material 
Exercises and movements to prepare for labor and birth
Comfort measures for you and your partner
Preparing For Birth Journal
Access to Prepared Feeding

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Preparing for Birth MINI

This Mini 2 day, weekend class is designed to help you prepare for your labor and birth!

Come learn the ins and outs of the labor process as well as how you might be able to cope. Classes are 4 hours

Included:
8 hours of course material
Comfort measures for you and your partner
Preparing for Birth Journal
Access to Prepared Feeding

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A spiral-bound pregnancy prep course journal titled "Preparing for Birth" with a white floral pattern on a gray textured surface, surrounded by teal yarn and knitting materials.