CHILDBIRTH
EDUCATION
Connect - Identify - Equip
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Flourishing Families (formerly Your Birth Experience, or YBE) is NOT a method of childbirth – it is a holistic system designed to inspire individuals to connect with what is most important to them, identify their needs, and become equipped to create memories that they will cherish for a lifetime.
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YBE helps you understand the physiological process of Normal Physiologic Birth, while also offering non-biased information about interventions and options you might encounter in your birth setting. Whether you plan to birth at home, in a birth center or hospital, medicated or unmedicated, Your Birth Experience allows you to create your own positive and memorable experience.
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The Flourishing Families curriculum includes Your Birth Experience, Your Baby Experience, and Your Breastfeeding Experience classes.
We will explore guided visualizations, personality styles, decision making, nutrition, exercise, writing birth plans, body balance, and relaxation, so that you can prepare in a way that works for YOU! YBE is designed to equip you with tools to help you learn in the moment and have confidence to go with the flow of expected and unexpected variations.
Private or Group Classes Available!
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The curriculum of all 3 YBE classes
follow the same structure:
* Envisioning Your Experience
* Understanding the Process
* Preparing for What Matters
* Understanding Your Options
* Communicating Your Preferences
PLUS each class includes a YBE Parent Guide packed FULL of unbiased,
evidence-based information!
Do you have a Health Savings account (HSA) or Flexible Spending Account (FSA)?
Childbirth classes are eligible for partial reimbursement with your FSA or HSA. Contact me for more information!
Private Classes
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Understand the process, envision your experience, understand your options, prepare for breastfeeding, and learn how to communicate with your partner.
* Envisioning Your Experience
* Understanding the Process (anatomy, terminology, stages of labor)
* Preparing for What Matters (nutrition, exercise, birth plans, body balance, relaxation)
* Understanding Your Options (building your birth team, birth environment, comfort measures, pain relief, interventions, positioning, and more)
* Communicating Your Preferences
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Includes Your Birth Experience Parent Guide
($50 value)
* Envisioning Your Experience
* Understanding the Fourth Trimester (birth, the “golden hour”, newborn procedures, postpartum recovery, initiating breastfeeding, returning home, and more)
* Preparing for What Matters (physically, mentally, and emotionally)
* Understanding Your Options (newborn procedures, bathing, diapering, feeding, sleeping arrangements, swaddling, sibling help, tummy time, baby wearing, and more!)
* Communicating Your Preferences
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Includes Your Baby Experience Parent Guide
($50 value)
* Envisioning Your Experience
* Understanding the Process (milk production, composition, initiating feeding, hunger cues, positions, latching, and more)
* Preparing for What Matters (physically, mentally, and emotionally)
* Understanding Your Options (after delivery, postpartum, sleeping arrangements, pumping, and more)
* Communicating Your Preferences
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Includes Your Breastfeeding Experience
Parent Guide ($50 value)
Save $300 when you take all 3 classes!! (Typically scheduled over 2 sessions.)
Understand the process, envision your experience, understand your options, prepare for parenting, and learn how to better communicate with your partner.
We take a fresh look at birth, breastfeeding, and baby care, so that you can prepare in ways that actually work for you!
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Includes YBE Complete Parent Guide ($100 value)