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Birthing From Within®Childbirth Preparation Classes
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The BIRTHING FROM WITHIN®
Parents and birth attendants can influence, but not control how a birth unfolds. BIRTHING FROM WITHIN® is a soulful and holistic approach that gives parents the tools to birth-in-awareness when the journey takes unexpected turns.
BIRTHING FROM WITHIN® classes are unlike any other childbirth classes. Parents learn lots of practical information through thought-provoking dialogues, interesting videos, and memorable exercises. Class by class, parents practice and master a variety of proven pain-coping exercises and build their pain-coping confidence.
In these classes, we take time to celebrate your inner wisdom as parents and your growth, as you prepare mind, body and heart to welcome your little one fully into your life!
A Fresh Approach
The key is the difference between childbirth 'education' and childbirth 'preparation'.... and it is a big difference, indeed! Our classes help you prepare for birthing, as well as for being parents.
Class Size
Smaller classes allow couples to connect on a deeper level and learn from each other. Our classes are introspective and personal, and allow you to look deep within and see what your deepest feelings are about birth and parenting. Accordingly, each class is unique, based on you as a parent, and geared to what the needs of the class are at each gathering.
BIRTHING FROM WITHIN®
Learn to Let Go
There is not one right approach for everyone in childbirth classes, just as there is not one right way to give birth. Parents will learn in our classes how to ‘lose it’ in labour, to let go and do whatever they need to do in order for their baby to be born. Surrendering to the power of birth gives you the power to do what you need to do to birth your baby.
Learn to let go, to honour your birthing process, and to birth in awareness regardless of where your path leads you.
Birthing babies is a lot of work. Women in labour need a variety of ‘tools’ in their birthing bag to choose from during their birthing journey. At every gathering, you will explore and master an array of pain coping practices, and learn which work best for you. Incorporating these skills in everyday life is an excellent way to prepare for our birthing experience, and give you the confidence to use them when the time comes! It’s a good thing pregnancy is 9 months long… that’s a lot of practice!
Dads/Birth Partners Class
Often birth partners feel overwhelmed and are unsure how best to give guidance and assistance to their labouring woman. Our class provides special time set aside for dads and birth partners to gather together with the mentor to ask questions, share information, and learn the importance of their role in Labourland. It is such an important role!
It Takes a Village…
Birth is an amazing rite of passage that is the end of one journey and the beginning of the next. Parenthood comes with its own unique challenges and steep learning curve that is less daunting when shared with other wise women and families. From our classes often begins a group who gathers regularly to share their experiences, their joys, their fears, and their wisdom as their babies grow into toddlers and then preschoolers.
What to Bring to Class
Bring a support person who loves you unconditionally, for this is the foundation we will build on in our classes. Bring your ideas, dreams, hopes and fears, and a willingness and openness to share and to listen and hear what you know already deep within you.
What to Bring to Your Birth
Bring great faith in something beyond your body. Bring great doubt to strengthen your faith. Bring great determination to do what needs to be done to birth in awareness. Bring great love.
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"Through soul-searching and listening more deeply to the women I was working with, I finally understood that women have to prepare for birth in their heart and soul, not their head. And that giving birth is something a woman does in her body, not in her head."
--Pam England - author and creator of the book Birthing From Within - An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation
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