Educational Courses Taught by UP Family Doula
BirthWorks Educational Course
Complete Childbirth, Pregnancy and Newborn Care Course
What Will We Cover in this Course?
- How to choose your birth team and birthing location
- Optimal pelvic positioning and pelvic bodywork
- How our beliefs and hormones affect our birth experiences
- Understanding how grief can impact labor and parenting
- Education on options and choices available to you and how to choose the best option for you and your family
- Labor, pregnancy and postpartum comfort measures
- Breastfeeding and newborn care
- Nutrition before / during pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Understanding and working with your body during labor
- Providing exercises for you and your partner to do together that encourages personal growth and provides conversation starters
- Helping families to create a good postpartum support system and plan
- AND of course SO much more!!
This class meets once a week for 3 weeks. Many of the families that have taken this course said that they wish the class was actually longer because they enjoyed it so much!
BirthWorks can be taken at any point in your pregnancy journey, even before you see the two pink lines! It's also perfect for expecting parents with previous vaginal and cesarean birth experiences.
We can all learn, support and share with each other in our small group class setting.
! FREE !
Thanks to sponsorship of the UP Health Care Solutions & Region 1 Quality Perinatal Collaborative!
Prep4Birth
This 4th Trimester Fitness® Method clinic is a complete prenatal Birth Ball & Labor prep class to help you learn optimal positioning and comfort measures during pregnancy. Understanding and working with your pelvic floor and more. These can be used at home and in the hospital. You'll also learn exercises to strengthen your body and pelvic floor. These exercises can help with common pregnancy pains and discomfort. As well as support your bodies postpartum recovery. Classes are usually around 3 hours long.
Costs: $50
Free with MI Medicaid and Birth Doula Class Package
We can also provide you a Birth Ball if you don't have one.