Topics covered in class through lecture, hands on practice, and expiremental learning:
• Love and Relaxation: Guided relaxation, partner communication and the hormones of labor• Optimal Fetal Positioning: Preparing your pelvis and baby for birth • Moaning and Moving: Evidence based healthy birth practices, from vocalizations to opening the pelvic floor, breathing, massage and affirmations• The Landscape of Labor: Understanding the physiological and emotional process of birthing your baby, contraction by contraction• The Role of the Partner: Cultivating Trust and Safety and hands on skills• Advocacy and Collaboration: Positive Communication with Providers• Understanding Interventions: Build a toolkits for decreasing unnecessary interventions and increasing vaginal birth options• After-Birth: After Birth Options, The Micro-biome, Mental Health and The Sacred HourEach class is kept to six couples or less, as this allows for individual and hands-on attention from the instructor. We encourage participants to bring pillows, a birth ball, snacks and other items that will allow them to get comfortable and relax. We'll practice massage and positions for birth, so wear clothing that allows for squatting and movement!
We take an hour lunch break as well, and are just down road the block from the Altamont, Howard's Station and the Bohemian Market.
Each ticket is for two people; pregnant person and partner.
If you need to contact me, please do not contect me through Eventbrite, instead, email me at writekgray@gmail.com. Thank you!
