Be involved in your care. Advocate for yourself and baby. Feel confident about childbirth.
Be involved in your care. Advocate for yourself and baby. Feel confident about childbirth.
Enlightened Beginnings
Join Taylor, RN, BSN, from Blissful Birthing and Abbey, RN, BSN, IBCLC from Mal’s Milky Way for a comprehensive pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding preparation course. This course will give you all the information you need to feel empowered about your decision making.
Upcoming course will take place on Tuesdays at 5p-7p starting April 8th-29th.
Investment: $300
This course will take place over a 4 week period. Classes are 2 hours long.
We recommend taking this course towards the end of the 1st Trimester or the beginning of the 2nd trimester.
Included in this price is a booklet which the class content will follow.
What You’ll Learn
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Risks, Benefits, & Alternatives
Informed consent is essential. We will teach you about all the risks, benefits, and alternatives of common interventions.
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To Intervene or Not
We will discuss the benefits of natural childbirth without medical interventions or interruptions.
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Pain Relief Options
Learn breathing techniques, labor positions, birth affirmations, pain medication, and massage/counter-pressure to help manage pain.
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Informed Decision Making & Self Advocacy
Learn how to respectfully advocate for yourself and your baby. You have the right to be involved and informed regarding your care.
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Expectations After Birth & Postpartum
What will the first couple days with baby be like? All questions about postpartum and more will be answered.
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Everything Breastfeeding
Abbey, IBCLC, will teach you about baby-led feeding, infant intake and output, skin to skin, expression, bottle feeding, and more.
Other classes I offer…
These classes are more focused and not as extensive as the 4 week course. These might suit your needs if you are only looking for a specific subject to take a class on!
Birthing with Confidence
For the mamas who want to be informed and confident going into childbirth!
This class will focus on the basics of childbirth. We will discuss the benefits of natural childbirth, how to limit interventions, pain relief options, breathing techniques, non-medicated coping strategies, common medical interventions, and more!
HSA/FSA eligible!
Investment: $65
Next Class: Wednesday April 2nd 5-7pm
Big Sibling in Training
This class will cover age-appropriate descriptions about pregnancy and the birthing process, building confidence and understanding in what it means to be a big sibling, and safety behaviors around the baby. Children will practice swaddling, diapering, feeding, dressing and holding baby dolls. We will also discuss understanding mixed feelings, regressive behaviors, or communication difficulties that are common and normal when becoming a big sibling.
We will end the class with a fun craft your child can make to give to baby when they come home!
*parent must accompany child*
Investment: $35
Next Class: Saturday March 29th. 10-11:30a
Safe Start
This class will focus on how to keep your baby safe and what to do in case of an emergency. We will discuss safe sleep, choking, bath time, falls, car seat safety, and how to perform CPR on an infant.
This is NOT a CPR certification course. I will just simply be demonstrating and explaining how to perform CPR and the Heimlich.
Investment: $65
Next Class: Monday April 21st 5-7pm
Why Blissful Birthing?
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I am in the process of becoming a certified Birth Educator through the International Childbirth Education Association. ICEA’s mission is to educate, certify, and create a community of professionals working to increase global access to safe, culturally respectful family-centered perinatal care.
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The content for this class is all derived from evidence based research. Evidence-based research is a method of conducting research that relies on a systematic and transparent review of existing, credible studies to inform new research, ensuring that the questions being investigated are valid, efficient, and answerable with the best available evidence.
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I am a Registered Nurse with my BSN. My experience comes from Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum. I also dabbled in Lactation Consulting. I like to incorporate my own experiences into my teachings as well as evidence based research.