Childbirth Education
LivingMom Childbirth Education Courses
These classes are a 4 part (8 class) series that take a holistic approach to childbirth education. In these courses, I will be addressing the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of conception, pregnancy, birth and parenting. Whether your planning to deliver in a hospital, birth center or at home, COME and LEARN how and why you can create the birth experience you’ve always wanted.
Course Descriptions
Primal Pregnancy
Learn: What is the BEST diet FOR YOU during pregnancy and how to start implementing healthier eating habits? What effects poor dietary habits have on your health/energy levels and vitality during pregnancy? What effects poor dietary habits have long term on your unborn baby? How your diet effects your babies brain to help proper growth patterns? Learn how to make green smoothies, my DELICIOUS Red Raspberry Tea, & AMAZING kale chips and realize the INCREDIBLE benefits for you and your unborn baby!
BlissfulBirth
Learn: How to take responsibility for your pregnancy and birth experience. How to EMPOWER yourself to believe in YOU and the natural process of pregnancy/birth. How your imprinting from your birth experience with affect the birthing experience of YOUR child. What an orgasmic birth is and how to create a pain free birth. How to become enlightened by learning the myths vs facts surrounding birth so as to fully understand all your options….
Conscious Creation
Learn: How can you create the pregnancy/birth experience you’ve always wanted. How your infant is created and formed in all aspects. What is limbic imprinting and how it FOREVER effects the emotional, physical and psychological health of your unborn child? What is the significance of the father’s role in the pregnancy / birth / postpartum environment? What are the effects of the mother’s emotional / psychological self on her baby in utero? The importance of understanding birth trauma and how it can have a negative effect on your birth experience.
Peaceful Parenting
Learn: The importance of deep connection and bonding IMMEDIATELY after birth. How to create the environment that stimulates that deep connection and bonding for your family as a whole. What delayed cord clamping, breastfeeding, Kangaroo care, Attachment parenting and Non Violent Communication can do for the healthy physical and emotional growth of your newborn.
“Giving birth is so much more than a physical phenomenon-it engages parents-to-be in a transformational experience, a key life event full of emotion and meaning.”
— DONA Website
What to Expect
These classes are a gathering of my 27 years of experience, education and understanding in the birth world.
You will leave the classes with a wealth of knowledge, along with a LARGE binder full of statistical/educational information relating to wide variety of subjects during the childbearing years. It doesn’t matter if this is for 1st pregnancy or your 9th, you will glean NEW wisdom and gain insights you’ve never learned before.
My hope for all who attend is that you leave the classes feeling EMPOWERED, INFORMED and at PEACE so that you can make future choices that benefit you, your spouse & your growing family. Also, that you always remember that as a woman you OWN the wisdom INSIDE YOU that you can create your BLISSFUL birth.
If you are interested in the classes but can’t do any given date or time, don’t hesitate to contact me. I want to work with those who’d like to participate. I am open to creating new dates/times and/or holding private classes. Please RSVP ASAP if you are interested in attending the classes. They can fill up rather quickly. Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. Email me at rachel@livingmombirth.com.
You leave the classes feeling empowered, informed and at peace.
Why Childbirth Education
My interest in birth really did start as a small child. I still remember the naps I would take with my mother where she recounted my personal birth story over and over to me. My passion for all things birth really grew 28 years ago when I became pregnant with my first son. In 1999, I attended the DONA conference in Kansas City, Kansas and went on to then practice as a doula. I spent the next 6 years attending births of family and friends, while delivering 2 more children of my own, also, reading, studying and taking classes on all things related to conception, pregnancy, and birth.
In Jan. of 2005, I began my apprenticeship as a midwife. I have been practicing as a homebirth midwife since 2008. I keep my education up and current by attending as many birth classes and conferences as possible and reading newly published pregnancy and birth related information regularly! In January 2008, I attended a 2 week apprenticeship birth shop with Elena Tonetti (www.birthintobeing.com)and am a certified member of the Sentient Circle.
Along with being a midwife, I am also an herbal practitioner, a nutritonal educator and emotional healing facilitator. I have received training in many healing modalities. In 2000, I became certified as a Nutritional Herbologist and soon thereafter began teaching classes on nutrition where I taught such subjects as whole foods, raw foods, vegetarianism, veganism, cleansing, supplementation and overall physical and emotional health and well being. As I no longer support a raw food, vegan or vegetarian diet, I have knowledge and personal experience on almost every current dietary fad. I am a wealth of information and experience on what is the healthiest way for a pregnant and postpartum mama to eat and care for her pregnant body.
I have since spent the last 28 years researching and educating myself in many matters relating to all forms of holistic and alternative therapies. I have worked with many people to help them facilitate their own personal healing and wholeness. I spent many years as part of the Native American church participating in their indigenous ceremonies and learning from many native leaders how to honor and utilize the many gift given to us by our Mother Earth.