If you're like many parents you're excited, amazed and apprehensive about what this birth thing is all about.  Perhaps you've read all the books, and you're hungry for a place to integrate and practice what you've learned, perhaps you're hoping to tap into your own resources, or you just want to share about what this is about for you. 

Based on the book “Birthing From Within” by Pam England and Rob Horowitz this 6-week series combines practical information with multi-sensory exercises. This holistic approach allows you to learn how birth works while exploring your questions, fears, and strengths around birth. You will learn and experience pain coping practices for labor that you can use in your daily life. Through preparation, you will be prepared to give birth to your baby and birth yourself as a new mother or father.

Topics include:

• Understand the process of labor.

• Prepare a post-partum plan.
• Get information about interventions and options during labor.

• Learn how to honor and share your birth story.
• Celebrate birth as a rite of passage.

• Listening to your body.
• Cultivate pain coping skills to work with the intensity of labor.
• Learn when drugs and epidurals are needed and how to approach them with compassion.

More about the Birthing From With Philosophy

Six week series: Hereford, Md. Cost is $190; $50 deposit needed to reserve spot in class. Sliding scale is available if needed; please let me know. 

Next classes:

February 1 - March 6; Wednesday  nights 7:00 - 9:15 pm

May 23 - June 27: Wednesday  nights 7:00 - 9:15 pm

All day class: February 25; 9:30 - 5 pm; cost $100; Freeland, MD

Register here

"Thank you again for the wonderful class. We learned so much and we employed many of the techniques we learned in the class during labor...We also were able to approach the birth in a unified way. Several times during labor, [my partner] reminded me of a way to breath, focus, and "be" -- whether it was to relax and go to my pain." ~ a mother

Juji's classes "helped him understand better and be more compassionate...helped him understand how to help and be a part of the labor...strengthened our communication and relationship" ~a mother

"I feel I understand the birthing process better & am more aware of what my wife might need." ~ a dad read more...