Penny is on an extended leave of absence from teaching. During her absence, her classes will be taught by her long-time assistant, Katie Rohs. Katie has been a doula and childbirth educator for over 10 years, and is overjoyed to carry Penny's wisdom forward to expectant families.
Join us on Wednesday nights for a comprehensive eight week series to fully prepare yourself to give birth in an out of hospital setting.
Weeks 1-3 will meet in conjunction with families who are planning a hospital birth, and go over all the topics of late pregnancy, the onset of labor, and working with physiologic birth. Week 4 will meet on Tuesday, and break out the home birth families to talk about hospital interventions in the context of a transfer. (The hospital class will meet on Wednesday.) Week 5 will have a special bonus class on Tuesday that is devoted just to practicing comfort measures, to thoroughly prepare you for working with labor contractions. Join the full cohort on Wednesday of Week 5 for a discussion about pain medications and cesarean birth. Wrap up your time with us on Week 6 discussing postpartum topics, and having a labor rehearsal. Weeks 7 & 8 are taught by a breastfeeding and newborn care specialist.
You will come away from your series feeling confident and prepared with skills to work with labor outside of the hospital, ask key questions about your care, communicate your preferences for birth, and transition to your new role as parents of a new tiny human!
Note: for this series, in order to accommodate instructor schedules, the breastfeeding class will take place during Week 3 of the series. Regular birth content resumes the 4th week of class, and the final class will be newborn care. See detailed schedule below.
