Childbirth Education Classes
A steady place to prepare for the journey ahead
Women have led to believe that birth is inherently dangerous and something to fear. We're taught to question our bodies, worry about our babies, and expect birth to be painful, traumatic, or overwhelming.
But birth doesn't have to be approached with fear. Your body was designed with the innate ability to birth, and you deserve to feel informed, supported, and empowered as you prepare for this life-changing experience.
This is where childbirth education matters. When you understand the birth process, learn your options, and learn how to work with your body rather than against it, fear can begin to shift into confidence.
Knowledge helps you make informed decisions, advocate for yourself, and approach birth with trusting the process rather than dreading it.
You are made to birth, and with the right education, tools, and support, birth can become more than something you fear — It can be an experience that strengthens your confidence, deepens your connection with your body, and transforms the way you see the journey into motherhood.
Classes We Offer
✧ 4-Week Comprehensive Group Class (Coming Soon!)
✧ 2-Day Essentials Group Class
✧ Private Childbirth Classes
✧ Online Essentials Birth Class (Coming Soon)
✧ Comprehensive Online Birth Class & Live Coaching (Coming Soon)
✧ On-Demand Online Prenatal/Postpartum Nutrition & Fitness Class (Coming Soon)
The Informed Harbor Series
Comprehensive Childbirth Education Classes
This series is a more in-depth slower paced class for those wanting to take time to absorb the fundamentals and the details of evidence based childbirth. There will be time to make connections with families in the same season of life, an opportunity for birth partners/dads to be equipped with the tools to support mama, as well as time to ask any questions or talk through scenarios.
This class is comprised of four, two-hour meetings -- each going through each stage of pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and baby care in a clear and concise way.
$350
What we'll explore:
✧ Week 1: Preparing for the rest of pregnancy & birth-- Nutrition and movement during pregnancy, choosing your care provider, understanding OB and midwifery care, and building your birth support team.
✧ Week 2: Understanding Labor and Birth-- The stages and physiology of labor, induction methods, pain management options, and common interventions.
✧Week 3: Comfort, coping, and confidence-- The fear-tension-pain cycle, coping with labor sensations, comfort measures, movement and positioning, formulating birth plan and practical tools for working through labor.
✧ Week 4: Postpartum and the Fourth Trimester-- Preparing for recovery, creating a flexible postpartum plan, breastfeeding education, newborn and family adjustment, rest, pelvic floor health, and knowing what support may be helpful
Dates: Coming Soon! Contact us for more info
The Harbor Essentials
Focus and tools over two sessions
The Harbor Birth Essentials is an engaging, two-day childbirth education class that brings the most important information together in one supportive learning experience.
Between two three-hour sessions you'll gain a practical understanding of labor and birth, explore your options for your comfort and prenatal care, and learn how to communicate your preferences with your care team, and more!
A focused, simple way to gain birth confidence on a busy schedule
$250
What we'll explore:
✧ Overview of nutrition & movement in pregnancy
✧ Communicating with your care team and advocating for your preferences
✧ Stages of Labor: A clear roadmap of what to expect
✧ Comfort toolkit: Proven coping methods and positions
✧ Pain relief options and common interventions
✧ Birth preferneces and creating a flexible birth plan
✧ C-section birth and understanding your options
✧ Practical postpartum recovery & physical healing
✧ Breastfeeding basics
✧ Newborn care
Contact us for dates!
Your Harbor, Your Birth
In-Home Private Class
Your Harbor, Your Birth is a personalized, five-hour childbirth education expeirence taught in the comfort of your home. We'll cover the foundations of labor and birth, comfort measures, interventions, birth prefernces, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, and newborn care, while tailoring our time together to the topics that matter most to you.
Whether you're prepareing for a home birth, planning a hospital birth, navigating a previous birth expeirence, had a previous c-section and wanting a vbac, we'll make space for your questions and help you better understand your options.
This is your oppertunity to slow down, learn at your own pace, and prepare for your birth with information that is relevant to your growing family.