Childbirth Prep

with Natalie Evans

Please visit our workshop schedule to find upcoming sessions of Childbirth Prep.

Join Natalie in this fun, creative workshop that will empower you to have a family-centered birth in the hospital or home setting. Birth is neither an illness nor a traumatic ordeal that one must get through in order to get a healthy baby. Everyone's birth can a beautiful, poignant event. Natalie will provide you with the resources and support you need to confidently and consciously prepare for birth and your transition to parenthood. Each week's class will focus on a particular topic such as comfort measures for labor, how to address fears and concerns, and how to care for your beautiful newborn. Included in this series is our comprehensive Breastfeeding Basics class taught by Malik Turley, a doula and lactation specialist. The final session will be a potluck celebration and time to ask any remaining questions. Childbirth Prep is appropriate at 20 weeks and beyond. Register here.

Summary of Workshop Series:
First Class:
Introductions, exploring feelings around birth, a brief history of birth in the Western world, cultural aspects of birth, birth visualization exercise.

Second Class:
Nurturing yourself & your baby, comfort exercises, optimal fetal positioning, sexuality in pregnancy & birth.

Third Class:
Breathing/ focus exercise, understanding the process of birth, comfort measures & tools for labor and birth, psychological aspects of birth.

Forth Class:
Breathing/ focus exercise, partner support & communication, working with back labor, routine procedures & interventions, epidural birth.

Fifth Class:
Breathing/ position exercise, birth plans, cesarean birth & prevention, having a family centered cesarean, complications & variations of labor.

Sixth Class:
Breathing/ position exercise, common fears surrounding birth, birthing through fear exercise, working with unexpected outcomes.

Seventh Class:
Parents’ postpartum experience, postpartum depression, newborn procedures & common appearances, newborn care.

Eighth Class:
Breastfeeding basics with Malik Turley

Ninth Class:
A celebration of pregnancy & birth, birth blessing, potluck dinner with couples & their babies from past classes.

Natalie is a certified Childbirth Educator and has also enjoyed the rewarding work as a doula for over two years. She has attended a wide variety of births in the home and hospital setting, including Cesarean and VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) births.

Read Natalie's full bio here.

Cancellation Policy:

Full payment reserves your space. No refunds are given for cancellations. If you cancel more than 24 hours prior to the beginning of the workshop, your payment is applied to a studio credit that you can use for any Bloom Yoga Studio product or service. Studio credits expire one year from date of purchase. If you cancel less than 24 hours prior to the beginning of the workshop, you forfeit your payment. In the event that Bloom must cancel a workshop a full credit or refund will be issued.