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Available Classes, Workshops, and Events:

Natural Birth & HypnoBirthing Classes

Sibling Classes

Grieving and Healing

Beginning Parenting Classes

Birth Day's Monthly Open House

All classes are held in Needham, Massachusetts (approximately 20 minutes west of Boston).

Natural Childbirth Classes and HypnoBirthing

Many childbirth classes do not adequately prepare women to actively, confidently, and joyfully give birth. Instead, they train women to be passive, compliant patients. Many couples "graduate" from their "prepared" childbirth classes feeling anxious and fearful and still very much unprepared. These classes are FUN. They are dynamic, informative, irreverent, entertaining and empowering. They are taught with enthusiasm and heart. They are never, never, boring!

Classes include information on:

Creating a positive birth experience and following your natural birthing instincts
Choosing care providers and the place of birth
Natural childbirth - why bother , what's all the fuss, etc.
Medical interventions - their consequences and appropriate uses
Cesarean prevention
Techniques of deep relaxation to achieve a safer, easier and more comfortable birth
The source of the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labor
How your body is designed to create it's own natural anesthesia
How you and your companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene, and joyful
To birth with confidence, calm, and comfort
Other techniques to produce a shorter and more comfortable birth experience
How the mother's body is designed to work in neuromuscular harmony with nature throughout labor
Birthing Techniques to bring your baby into the world consciously and without violence
VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) Safety
Complications and emergencies - how to prevent them and what to do if you have one
Postpartum, Breastfeeding, Raising Healthy Children, and Becoming a Family
Prenatal Care and Nutrition
Parenting in the new millennium and much, much more.

PREREQUISITE: read our online article on "How Babies are Born"

WHEN: The classes are given four times each year, and are eight weeks long. They are held on Monday or Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:30. I recommend attending the classes as early in the pregnancy as possible - you are then invited to come back to any of the classes, or to take another complete series, later in the pregnancy - free of charge - if you so desire.
FOR MORE INFO: Call (781)449-2490 or email pregNANCYmidwife@gmail.com
** Individual classes also available.

Sibling Classes

Pregnancy and birth are times of wonder, change, and anticipation. This 90-minute class is designed to provide general information, answer questions, and to celebrate pregnancy, birth, babies, and children! Children from the ages of 2-12 (and beyond!) are invited to bring their parents and have a lovely morning. Through pictures, song, slides, and demonstrations, participants will have an opportunity to learn more about birth and newborn babies. this class is appropriate for children who will be present at birth, as well as for those who will meet their new sister or brother soon after. A snack will be served.

WHEN: Classes available throughout the year
FOR MORE INFO: call (781)449-2490 or email pregNANCYmidwife@gmail.com

Grieving and Healing After a Disappointing, Upsetting, or Traumatic Birth Experience

How women integrate their childbearing experiences into their lives affects how they feel about themselves, hoe they "live in their bodies", how the "walk in the world", and how they mother -- for the rest of their lives. This workshop will assist women who are grieving about a distressing birth experience. It will help them to move toward increased self-esteem, empowerment, and wholeness.

This seminar is relevant for women who are grieving or working through a traumatic birth, and for childbirth educators, midwives, nurses, family members, friends, counselors, and other interested in birthing women and families.

WHEN: Private session available by phone and in person
FOR MORE INFO: call (781)449-2490 or email pregNANCYmidwife@gmail.com

Beginning Parenting Classes

Sleep? What's that?!?....
Sex? It's been so long I can hardly remember......
What have I been doing all day? Nursing my baby, that's what!!
Dinner now consists of peanut butter sandwiches, and that's on a good day!
I used to manage an entire department, but I can't figure out how to manage one eight pound "bundle of joy"!

A relaxing evening workshop for anyone who has a baby and is feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, dazed, frazzled, hassled, and/or confused, or, for those expecting babies who would like to learn a little "preventative medicine". A discussion on the challenges of having a new baby in the house and beginning parenting.

WHEN: several times a year on a week night, from 7:00 -9:30 p.m.
FOR MORE INFO: Call (781)449-2490 or email pregNANCYmidwife@gmail.com

Birth Day's Monthly Open House!

Come on, time to show off your baby, offspring, or belly if you're pregnant! Let us see how he/she/they/you have grown - or shrunk, as the case may be!! C'mon, get out of the house (or the office- take a day off!) and spend a few hours relaxing (remember what that is?) drinking (juice, herbal teas, and water that is) socializing, bragging (this is the place to di it!) and talking about birthing, nursing, pregnancy, parenting......whatever! Friends and relatives welcome!

WHEN: 3rd Thursday of every month from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
WHAT TO BRING: yourself, your pregnant belly, your children, friends and family
FOR MORE INFO: call (781)449-2490 or email pregNANCYmidwife@gmail.com
Important: Please call each month before you come to make sure that the open house will be held as scheduled. If you hear a regular message, come along. If you hear "I am at a birth", do not come - the open house will be postponed until the following month.