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How to Have a Bad-Ass Birth

Concise, practical, evidence-based, fun, casual, no-nonsense childbirth classes for all pregnant people and their chosen partners. 

I get it

Does this sound familiar?

  1. I don’t know my options and I am nervous about being taken advantage and falling victim to all the default medical processes.

  2. I want as few interventions as possible, but I don’t really know anything about birth or how to cope in such an intense experience.

  3. I don’t know how to trust my body. I am scared and want to tap into “intuitive wisdom” everyone is always talking about.

  4. I just want to feel as prepared as possible for birth, labor, and delivery and life after!

 
 

candid, intimate, and conversational childbirth class. Bring your note taking skills and let’s get to work.

 

What you’ll get in this class

  • Info about due dates

    Labor positions

    Birth plans

    What to pack

    How your partner can help

    Oral fluid and food intake during labor

    Quick guide to Epidurals

    Screening for gestational diabetes

    Water breaking

    Fetal monitoring

    “Big baby”

    “Failure to progress”

    “Cord around the neck”

    How to find a VBAC friendly provider

    and so much more including a prenatal yoga sessions for any students local to Portland!

 

What’s Included?

  • Part 1

    Pain management, anatomy, how to choose a provider, what to pack, birthing partner tips, meditation and advocacy

  • Part 2

    Stages and phases of labor, timing contractions, when to leave for the birth location, meditation and more advocacy

  • Part 3

    Building a birth plan, labor preferences, routine interventions, variations and complications of labor, even more advocacy

  • Part 4

    Comfort measures, labor positions, labor rehearsal, more meditation, and of course - as always - a bunch more advocacy