The hospital class is more geared towards explaining their policies and their way of doing things. People who take hospital birth classes don’t learn tools for advocacy, and often don’t learn what all their options actually are. It’s unlikely that a hospital class will teach you how to exercise self agency, honor your birth preferences, or give you any tools to prepare emotionally for birth. 

Here’s the thing — your partner probably doesn’t understand how much easier their life is gonna be if you have a better birth and a faster recovery time. Birth has the potential to bring partners closer together, to deepen intimacy and leave the person birthing feeling happy and proud of themselves. If you have a challenging birth, your mental and physical wellbeing can be impacted. 

Challenging births lead to longer recovery times, which significantly impacts intimacy between partners. If it’s a money thing — the investment upfront that will help you prevent unwanted interventions is a micro fraction of the amount of money unwanted interventions cost. 

The best thing your partner can do for you and themselves is invest upfront in the birth, so they don’t have to invest in resolving the long-term mental and physical challenges that can result from a difficult birth.

If you haven’t taken a full, comprehensive childbirth class yet — this is your chance to give yourself the knowledge and support you need to embrace birth confidently. Learning this stuff now can truly be the difference between a challenging birth and a peaceful one. 

Taking a childbirth class at the end of pregnancy means that all the information will be fresh.

We want your experience to be interactive and personal, so we limit each group to a maximum of 20 participants. This gives you plenty of opportunities to ask questions and interact with one another.

Other courses are tethered to a specific birth plan — I’ve seen courses for people planning an unmedicated birth, courses for people wanting an epidural, courses for hypnobirthing, and more. The thing is — by only educating yourself on one specific birth plan, you significantly limit your ability to be flexible and adapt to other options if needed.  

Ask yourself this — what if my epidural doesn’t work? What if I get to the hospital and it’s too late, so they won’t give me one? This happens all the time. Since that person only educated themselves on an epidural birth, they now have no idea how to cope and deliver a baby without one. 

On the flip side — what if you get an epidural even if you weren’t planning on it? Would you know all the best ways to support labor progress and prevent tearing if you took an unmedicated birth class? Probably not.

Rather than focusing on one specific path for birth, I teach a simple method anyone can use, no matter where or how they plan to birth. The Peaceful Birth Method can only be found here.

Yes - there’s so much to learn when planning an epidural that can make your birth experience so much faster and decrease your risk for tearing.

The thing is — epidurals come with risks and benefits, and they come with many more options for interventions that you need to be aware of. Lots of providers say things like “lets get these monitors on you” once you get an epidural. But — did you know there are multiple options for monitoring, each with their own risks and benefits? And - you get to choose which options feels best for you.

Providers will also say, “great you’re 10 cm, let’s get you on your back for pushing,” but did you know that there are certain positions for pushing you can assume that decrease the risk for tearing, even with an epidural? And to take it one step further, I cover epidural positions to support labor progress.

By doing these positions to support your baby as they move through the pelvis, your risk of needing a cesarean will dramatically decrease. I cover everything you need to know to feel empowered and informed during birth with an epidural.

So far, my VBAC students have a 100% success rate — and here’s why. So many people decide to plan for a VBAC, but they don’t have a full understanding of all the tools they can use to decrease their risk of cesarean.

I hear all-too-often the same story, where the provider will “let someone” attempt a VBAC, but they don’t give them any support, counsel, or resources. Usually, the provider is planning on giving them a cesarean after a short trial of labor.

Many people are unaware of how to find a truly friendly VBAC provider who operates under evidence-based policies, and they don’t know which policies or options are best for them, based on the research we have today. My course covers everything you need to know to decrease your risk of cesarean, and will help you understand what a truly VBAC friendly provider looks like. 

I care about your birth, and I want my course to be accessible to you. This is why I offer a payment plan for those who need to break up the payments. Here’s the thing — interventions are super expensive, and good quality childbirth education decreases your risk of receiving them. So investing just a few hundred dollars upfront could save you thousands long term. 

Childbirth education improves outcomes for both the parent and the baby, decreases cesarean rates, decreases the risk for tearing, shortens recovery time, improves breast and chest-feeding success rates, and more.

And let’s be real - a faster recovery time means less money you’ll have to invest in recovering. Having the education you need to feed your baby from your body, if that’s what you want to do, will save you hundreds every month on formula. I could go on but you get the jist.