Are you expecting and need some guidance on your choices and options at your place of birth? Curious about pain relief options and how to cope with contractions? Want to prepare for your birth experience and not feel blindsided? Eager to have your partner or support team help you through this vulnerable and transformative time but not really sure what they can do to help? Well look no further! Join me, Kelly Brown, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and doula with ten years of experience for a one-day, comprehensive childbirth class, Pathways to Parenthood.
This class is perfect for first time parents or repeat parents looking for a deep dive into childbirth and what to expect on delivery day. The course covers late pregnancy and pre-labor, labor and delivery, immediate postpartum, coping techniques, and the hard stuff like decision making, “what-ifs”, cesarean birth and so much more.
Lunch and light snacks will be provided. This class is best taken in the third trimester.
August 17, 2024 (August 24 - back-up date)
About the instructor:
Kelly Brown is a certified DONA birth and postpartum doula, Lamaze certified childbirth educator and Evidence Based Birth® Instructor. She is mom to three amazing kiddos and the wife of a firefighter. Kelly's career in childbirth began with the birth of her first daughter - exploring all the ways women can birth. This education opened up a world of possibility for Kelly and she began sharing what she had learned about labor and birth with friends. Planning on becoming a midwife; it was discovering the deep connections a doula can have with a family that changed her course. Kelly brings passion and understanding to her classes and clients and walks alongside them no matter how they desire to birth their baby and transition to parenthood.
