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, ICCE 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 May 6th-27th.
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.
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 physiologic birth process, how to limit interventions, pain relief options, breathing techniques, labor and pushing positions, non-medicated coping strategies, common medical interventions, and more!
HSA/FSA eligible!
Investment: $75
Next Class: Wednesday May 7th 5-7:30pm
Newborn Academy
Do you ever wish that they sent you home with an instruction manual on how to take care of your new baby?That's where I come in to help! Join me as I teach you all about the basics of newborn care!
This course will cover feeding, diapering, soothing, bathing, clothing, sleep habits, and illness.
By the end of class, you will be leaving with confidence about caring for your newborn baby!
Investment: $75
Next class: Tuesday April 29th 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 May 3rd 10-11:30am
C-Section Prep Course
This C-Section preparation class is geared specifically towards those with a scheduled cesarean section that do not plan to trial labor.
This course will cover what to bring to the hospital, pre-op, procedure overview, what to expect in the operating room, post-op recovery, your baby after a c-section, and long term recovery.
Investment: $75
Next Class: Monday May 19th 5-7pm
Birth Partner Boot Camp
This course is a complete guide to childbirth for partners or support people!
You will learn about the last weeks of pregnancy, stages of labor, comfort measures for labor, strategies for challenges during labor, tests, interventions, and procedures, complications in labor and delivery, medications for pain, vaginal and C-section birth, postpartum, and an intro to feeding your baby
Investment: $75
Next Class: Thursday May 22nd 5-7:30pm
VBAC Prep Course
This VBAC preparation class is geared specifically towards those planning for a vaginal birth after previously having a c-section.
This course will cover VBAC risks and benefits, optimal fetal positioning, stages and phases of labor, labor progression, labor positions, labor coping skills, medications available during labor, how providers manage VBACs, warning signs of uterine rupture, preventing unnecessary repeat c-section, and how you can advocate for yourself.
Investment: $75
Next Class: Thursday May 15th 5-7pm
Why Blissful Birthing?
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I am 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.