Private In-Home classes: Birth + Postpartum 

Choose a class on a topic of your choice and enjoy learning about birth + postpartum alongside a partner or loved one from the comfort of your home.

I love to share evidence-based information along with anthropological and evolutionary-focused perspectives in clear and easy-to-understand ways. I hold a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in writing, rhetoric and discourse. My experience in research, writing, and sharing complex information in uncomplicated ways combined with my passion for birth has created an engaging series of classes designed to help you feel prepared for the exciting months ahead.

I highly recommend all classes are taken during your pregnancy. The newborn care class could be taken in the first couple weeks post-birth. 

All classes are:

  • Private and available in the comfort of your home 
    • Virtual options also available
    • Additional meeting spaces available if preferred

  • Two-hours and include a packet with notes and key takeaways, as well as a follow-up email with resources and referrals discussed.
    •  With time during each class to ask questions and go deeper on topics that are of interest

read more on each class offering below…

Preparing for a Physiological Birth (Home or Hospital): Understanding Labor, Hormones + Coping

Take an in-depth look at labor and how you can best support a physiological birth in this private class for you and your partner. This class is available for those doing home or hospital birth.

During our two-hour class, you will learn:

  • The complex hormonal interplay that initiates and propels labor
  • How oxytocin + adrenaline affect labor
  • Ways you can support your body’s birth process
  • Birth and labor preparation in the months before
  • Coping with labor at the different stages
  • Ways your partner can best support your labor
  • What happens with your body and with your baby in immediate postpartum
  • And more!
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Birth Planning + Hospital Prep

Let’s talk childbirth at the hospital! Learn some basics behind childbirth, labor and comfort measures and how to best support your hospital birth.

 In this two-hour, private class you and your partner will learn:

  • When to leave for the hospital
  • Labor signs and the stages of labor
  • Coping strategies for laboring at home and at the hospital
  • Birth preparation in the months before birth
  • What to pack for the hospital and what essentials to have at home
  • What to expect at the hospital from check-in to triage to post-birth
  • And more!
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homeBirth Planning + Prep

Let’s talk childbirth at home! Learn some basics behind childbirth, labor and comfort measures and how to best support physiological birth at home.

 In this two-hour, private class you and your partner will learn:

  • The complex hormonal interplay that initiates and propels labor
  • How oxytocin + adrenaline affect labor
  • Ways you can support your body’s birth process
  • Birth and labor preparation in the months before
  • Labor signs and the stages of labor
  • Coping strategies for labor
  • Birth preparation in the months before birth
  • What essential items to have for the birth and postpartum
  • And more!
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Creating a Healing Postpartum Period: Support, Nutrition, Rest, Warmth

Each family deserves a healing and restful postpartum period. Take time to learn how you can create and support a sacred postpartum space for bonding, rest and nourishment.

In this two-hour, in-home class, you will learn:

  • Why support, rest and bonding are essential to the health of the family
  • The ways traditional cultures around the world treat the postpartum period
  • How to rest in today’s world
  • How to look at sleep differently
  • Ways to use warmth to promote healing
  • Key foods for optimal nourishment and what foods to avoid
  • How to handle family challenges and encourage “helpers” instead of “visitors”
  • About hormone fluctuations and changes during this time after birth
  • And more!
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Newborn Care in the First Weeks 

This class is a parent favorite. Spend an evening talking about and dreaming of your newborn and what those first few weeks will be like!

In this two-hour private class, you will learn about:

  • The first hours post-birth and what to expect from your baby
  • Your baby’s immature and developing systems
  • Infant digestion and how to best support this new system
  • Skin changes that occur in the first weeks and how to care for your baby’s skin
  • The ways sleep changes from the first days to the second month and beyond
  • The nervous system and how it affects how your baby moves and responds to soothing
  • Why the first three months of life are called the “fourth trimester”
  • Your baby’s reflexes and how you can use these reflexes to soothe and calm your baby
  • And more!
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Understanding + Troubleshooting Newborn Sleep 

Infant sleep is a multi-million-dollar industry and keeps growing for a reason. It’s something many of us struggle with and despite millions spent we have still not uncovered how to “fix” infant sleep. But what if how our babies sleep isn’t actually broken? In this two-hour private class, you and your partner will learn the biological reasons behind sleep and how to best support sleep from birth on.

You’ll also learn:

  • The research that shows frequent waking is biologically protective and necessary
  • How humans never slept in long stretches until recent human history
  • What your newborn sleep cycles are like and when they change
  • About establishing a circadian rhythm for your newborn
  • Why swaddling from birth to three months is a key sleep tool
  • How keeping the nervous system calm helps baby soothe more easily
  • Creating an environment that best supports sleep (for the whole family!)
  • And more!
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