Childbirth Preparation Classes

Birthing Again

Birth Story Workshop

Upcoming Classes

Discover Your Way to Birth: Childbirth Preparation Classes

This 6-week series is based on the book “Birthing From Within” by Pam England and Rob Horowitz. The class combines practical information with multi-sensory exercises. This holistic approach allows you to explore your questions, fears, and strengths around birth. Learn pain coping practices for labor that you can use in your daily life. Receive preparation in giving birth to your baby and birthing yourself as a new mother or father.

Childbirth and parenting preparation which engages your body, mind and spirit~ Topics include:

• Understanding the process of labor.
• Preparing a post-partum plan.
• Getting information about interventions and options during labor.

• Telling our stories of labor and birth.
• Celebrating birth as a rite of passage.

• Listening to your body.
• Adapting to the changing sensations of giving birth.
• Coping with pain.
• Using drugs and epidurals with compassion

Birthing Again

This class is for experienced parents. Review and learn from your previous birth(s). Dust off old-pain coping techniques that worked and learn new ones. Prepare siblings for the birth and a new baby. Take time to enjoy your pregnancy.

Birth Story Workshop

Giving birth is a profound life-changing event in which we birth our children and we birth ourselves as parents. New mothers may not have good places to tell their stories of their experience in a place where they can really be heard and validated. This can make it hard for her to integrate her experience and can hamper her ability to be present to the task of mothering.

This workshop is for women who would like to share and learn from their birth stories. This workshop is geared for those who may be troubled by parts of there birth and want to move toward healing. Both sharing and introspective exercises will be included.

The workshop is for anyone who has given birth who would like the opportunity to share her experience regardless of how and when you birthed.

Upcoming Classes

Birthing From Within: Weekend immersion class January 16 & 17, Saturday & Sunday 9:30 - 5:00 pm; Freeland, MD (25 minutes North of the Baltimore beltway; 20 minutes South of York, PA); Cost is on a sliding scale $110 - $250, $50 - $100 deposit to reserve spot.

Birthing From Within: Weedend Immersion September 19 & 20; 9:30 - 5:00 pm; Baltimore, MD; Cost is $175, $100 deposit needed to reserve spot in class.

Birthing From Within: Six week series, October 5 - November 8, 7:00 - 9:15 pm; Baltimore, MD; Cost is $175, $100 deposit needed to reserve spot in class.