Education is Important. You Deserve Support.

Navigating Your Birth: Labor is a supportive, evidence-based class designed for expectant parents who want to feel confident, informed, and empowered throughout their labor and birth experience. This interactive class guides families through the physical, emotional, and practical aspects of the childbirth process, equipping them with tools to approach labor with calm and clarity.

What You’ll Learn:

• The Stages of Labor: Understand what happens during each phase of labor—from early signs to the golden hour—and what you and your support person can expect physically and emotionally along the way.

• Comfort Measures for Labor: Discover a wide range of techniques to manage labor sensations, including breathing patterns, massage, visualization, hydrotherapy, and more.

• Labor Positions: Learn and practice positions and movements that support your body’s natural process and help reduce discomfort and improve labor progress.

• Advocacy and Communication: Explore real-life birth scenarios and role-play how to advocate for your preferences, ask informed questions, and work with your birth team—even when the plan needs to change.

This class is designed for busy families who need an accelerated childbirth class, and experienced parents seeking a refresher course. Whether you're planning a medicated or unmedicated birth, you'll leave this class with greater confidence, tools, and a deeper connection to your birth vision. Partners and support persons are encouraged to attend!

Navigating Your Birth: Interventions is a deep-dive class for families who want to feel fully informed and confident about the medical options that may arise during labor and birth. This class offers a more detailed exploration of common interventions, how and when they are used, and how to navigate those decisions while staying centered in your values.

What You’ll Learn:

• Your Rights in Childbirth: Understand your legal and ethical rights during labor and delivery, and how to advocate for respectful, consent-based care.

• The Power of Informed Decision-Making: Learn how to use the B.R.A.N.D. framework (Benefits, Risks, Alternatives, doing Nothing, and Discuss/Decide) to evaluate options and make choices that feel right for you.

• Custom Learning on Interventions: You’ll choose which interventions to focus on—such as induction methods, epidurals, continuous fetal monitoring, cesarean birth, vacuum/forceps delivery, IV fluids, or membrane sweeping—and together we’ll explore:

  • What the intervention is and when it’s typically used

  • The potential benefits and goals

  • The known risks or side effects

  • Realistic alternatives or supportive options

This class is ideal for families who want to go beyond the basics and feel truly prepared to navigate unexpected changes or medical recommendations during labor. Whether you're hoping for an unmedicated birth or are planning to use certain interventions, this class supports you in making choices with clarity, compassion, and confidence. Support people are encouraged to attend and participate.

Class Description:
"Navigating Your Birth: Postpartum" is a thoughtful and empowering class designed to help expecting families prepare for life after birth—often called the fourth trimester. While birth is a major milestone, the early postpartum weeks are equally important, and this class provides the knowledge and tools you need to navigate those first 12 weeks with greater ease, confidence, and support.

What You’ll Learn:

• Normal Postpartum Recovery: Understand what physical and emotional healing looks like for the birthing parent in the first 12 weeks, including what’s expected, what’s uncomfortable but normal, and what may need attention.

• Newborn Behavior Basics: Learn what’s typical for sleep, crying, frequency of feeding, and bonding in the early weeks—so you’re not caught off guard by what’s truly normal.

• Support Person Tools: Gain practical skills and communication strategies for partners or support people to provide meaningful, respectful care during this transition—and stay connected as a team.

• When to Call for Help: Know the red flags for both parent and baby that indicate it’s time to reach out to a healthcare provider, so you can act quickly and confidently if concerns arise.

This is an accelerated class is for families who want to feel more prepared for the emotional, physical, and relational changes that come after birth. With gentle guidance and practical advice, "Navigating Your Birth: Postpartum" helps you enter parenthood feeling supported & informed. Partners and support persons are strongly encouraged to attend.

Get empowered with a Childbirth Class you and your partner will LOVE! Get mentored by Joyce, your own Evidence Based Birth® Instructor! Learn about evidence based care, comfort measures, and advocacy. Get prepared, get answers, get empowered. Start learning evidence-based info today in this unique mixed format childbirth class, part in-person, part online—register now! Only 6 spots available per session, do not wait to register!

Your Childbirth Class includes:

• Mentorship from Joyce, experienced EBB Instructor

• Six live classes to practice your labor skills

• Five weeks of online videos for you and your partner to watch together

• E-Workbook

• Three months of access to the EBB Childbirth Class website

• BONUS: Breastfeeding and newborn care videos

• BONUS: Earn points throughout the class to redeem for prizes at the end!

• OPTIONAL: Add-on a printed workbook shipped to your door

• OPTIONAL: Upgrade to six-months access to EBB Childbirth Class website

Latch & Learn is an engaging and empowering breastfeeding class created for pregnant families who want to understand how breastfeeding works from the very beginning. This class offers a clear, supportive look at what to expect—starting in pregnancy, through the early days with your newborn, and into the weeks that follow—so you can feel confident, prepared, and supported as you begin your feeding journey.

What You’ll Learn:

• Before Baby Arrives:

  • How your body prepares to make milk during pregnancy

  • Understanding breast anatomy and changes to expect

  • The role of hormones and how milk production begins

• The First Few Days:

  • What’s normal in the early days of breastfeeding

  • Establishing a good latch and exploring various feeding positions

  • Infant reflexes that support feeding (like rooting and sucking)

  • Recognizing effective milk transfer and feeding cues

• Troubleshooting Basics:

  • How to identify and relieve engorgement

  • Understanding how milk supply works—and how to protect it

  • Basics of infant oral anatomy and how it impacts latch and comfort

  • When to ask for help and who to turn to

• Looking Ahead:

  • What to expect as baby grows and feeding patterns shift

  • Pumping, storing milk, and returning to work

  • Introducing a bottle (if needed) and combining feeding methods

This class is perfect for expectant families who want a well-rounded, evidence-based introduction to breastfeeding and chestfeeding. Whether you’re committed to exclusive breastfeeding or exploring your options, Latch & Learn equips you with practical tools, realistic expectations, and a clear understanding of how to support a healthy feeding relationship. Support partners are encouraged to join and learn how they can be an active part of your breastfeeding success.