Woman in labor on birth ball in hospital with doula

Birth Boot Camp 6 Week/Hospital Class Outline

Prepare for your in or out-of-hospital birth birth mentally, emotionally, and physically by studying the physiology of labor, relaxation techniques, comfort measures, variations of labor, transfer expectations, induction, cesarean birth, epidurals, and more. Watch and experience all birth including home and birth center birth through beautiful, newly updated videos. Each class runs about 2 hours.

This class is hospital, home birth, and Beginnings Birth Center approved.

Class 1 – Your Amazing Birth

– Anatomy & physiology of birth
– Contractions and re-framing pain
– Stages of labor/signs of labor
– Communication in labor
– Comfort measures
– Birth video

Class 2 – Relaxation and How to Cope

– Importance of relaxation
– Top 10 Tools for Partners
– Pain management options
– Comfort measures
– Labor positions
– Birth video

Class 3 – Navigating Your Birth Experience

– Informed consent/refusal and BRAIN
– Policies and tests that impact birth
– Due dates
– Induction (natural and medical)
– Comfort measures
– Birth video

Class 4 – Meeting Your Baby

– Stage 2 labor (pushing)
– Stage 2 expectations, mechanics, what partners can do
– Stage 3 labor (birthing placenta)
– Comfort measures
– Birth video

Class 5 – Preparing for the Unexpected

– Cesarean birth (necessary vs. not necessarily)
– Variations of labor
– Transfer expectations
– Unplanned, unassisted birth
– Labor scenario practice
– Comfort measures
– Birth video

Class 6 – Your Birth Plan & the Immediate Postpartum

– Birth planning
– Immediate newborn procedures
– Immediate postpartum expectations
– Fourth trimester
– Comfort measures
– Birth video