YOUR EMPOWERED BIRTH
Welcome to the childbirth education course you've been looking for. The one that allows you to tune into your inner voice and primal wisdom. Our immersive birth prep course, Your Empowered Birth, has been carefully curated to equip you with the tools, resources and confidence to have the empowered birth you desire. This course is equipped to give you everything that the hospital courses promise but never deliver on.
Whether you’re birthing unmedicated at home, at a birth center or with or without medication in the hospital, this class is for you. We've offered guidance to families from first-time to fifth-time parents. Our warm and welcoming space allows us to dig deep as we talk about the raw and real aspects of birth. We guarantee you'll walk away feeling relaxed, excited and prepared for your birth all in the support of a likeminded village! We’re dedicated to raising the bar for better birth outcomes, and it starts here with the right education.
This course is offered as a single-day in-person group class, private in-home personalized class or private virtual class. You can take this course as early in pregnancy as you'd like, but we often find the second trimester to be the sweet spot for families as this gives you plenty of time to continue your birth prep beyond class. Topics we’ll cover but are not limited to choosing your ideal birth team and environment, hormones at play in labor, your birth choices, understanding hospital inductions, how to best prepare for labor, natural induction techniques, what to expect throughout the stages of labor, challenges that can arise in birth, what to pack for the hospital, how your partner can be involved throughout, coping and comfort techniques, labor tools, what to expect in delivery and postpartum, decisions for your baby and more!
We provide you and your partner with over a dozen helpful PDFs infused with our many years of doula experience that will continue to support you beyond the class leading up to your birthing time. Birth shouldn't feel fearful; it was designed to be easeful, powerful and primal. We're here to put you back into the center of your birth by giving you the love and support you deserve.
YOUR EMPOWERED FOURTH TRIMESTER
Birth is only 5% of the journey and postpartum is the other 95%. There's so much that our society doesn't talk about when it comes to postpartum, and we're dedicated to educating on this delicate time so that it becomes an easeful transition into your parenthood journey. It truly takes a village to support a new family in their early postpartum months, and we want to be an important part of your village by setting you up for success before your baby arrives. We’ll teach you to care for your new baby and for you to be care for as this new version of yourself as a mother.
This immersive fourth-trimester course is a personalized in-home or virtual course for you, your partner and your immediate family. When you reach out, we’ll coordinate a time that fits into your schedule. Topics we’ll cover but are not limited to: our favorite postpartum products, what to expect for mom’s recovery, postpartum care and nutrition, how partner can best support mom, recognizing postpartum disorders, setting up for successful feeding, how to hold, swaddle, bathe and diaper your baby, understanding baby’s sleep, car seat safety, vaccine choices and much more! Beyond the personalized class, we'll provide you with over a dozen local resources and PDF takeaways specifically designed to equip you throughout your fourth-trimester journey.
When you finish class, we promise you'll feel more confident and at ease entering into this incredible new life chapter. We take the fear and unknown out of postpartum, so that you can soak in all the joy, love and magic that comes with it!
WHY TAKE CLASSES WITH US?
Educating expecting families is our passion and our purpose. We've thoughtfully curated classes for each phase of your sacred journey. With over ten years of experience as birth and postpartum doulas, we bring this robust knowledge into the classroom space. We're general childbirth educators meaning we bring in influences from different birthing techniques, which allows you to find which tools work best for your unique self. Our classes are interactive, fun and engaging for both mom and partner. We genuinely love what we do, and we leave every class saying "that was our favorite class yet"!
The single-day group format and private personalized courses work great because it allows you to fit the classes into your busy schedule without feeling like it's another chore to add to your pregnancy to-do list and without missing any of the important aspects of your birth and postpartum prep. Our families always come back and tell us how prepared and confident they felt going into their birth and postpartum (just check out our Google Reviews and read all the wonderful feedback we've received from dozens of students like you). An added benefit of our group classes is it gives you the opportunity to meet other wonderful families on similar journeys.
We're continually updating our curriculum based on your feedback and always improving for you. We get comfy, cozy and personal. We meet you at your level to provide information and support that makes a meaningful impact. The space we create is warm and intimate, which allows for raw and real conversations about birth and postpartum. We take time for personalized education while sitting with your questions and apprehensions. You'll walk away with valuable takeaways and local resources that go beyond our class and continue to support you on your special journey. We come together as a community and we want you to start as our student and stay as our friend. In fact, what differentiates us from other classes and online curriculum out there is that we don’t go away after our class is finished. We make ourselves available to you; you can text us any time questions come up. We're forever apart of your village!
We know the true value of sharing quality resources, hands-on tools and evidence-based information in a safe and supportive environment. We believe deeply in creating positive birth and postpartum outcomes through education because we’ve first-hand seen the positive impact our classes have had on so many families' journeys.
UPCOMING CLASSES
OUR SINGLE-DAY IMMERSIVE IN-PERSON "YOUR EMPOWERED BIRTH" CLASSES ARE HOSTED AT CALAHAN CHIROPRACTIC IN LAGUNA HILLS
All classes are $500 per couple for group dates (Soul Shine Clients receive a $50 discount) or $175/hour for customized private in-home classes
AVAILABLE CLASS DATES:
Sunday, March 30th (full)
from 8 am-4 pm
Sunday, July 20th
from 8 am-4 pm
If these dates don't work for your family, please inquire about our private in-home or virtual availability.
