Natural Childbirth Education classes for home or hospital births. Learn what your body and brain goes through in labor to help you tap into your childbearing sources. Get informed of your ethical rights. Understand risks and benefits of intervention. More topics that are covered include: what to do with the placenta, how your partner can support you, water birth, home birth supplies, birth plans, reality of the postnatal period, breastfeeding and newborn care essentials.

Natural Childbirth Education Series

PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND PARENTING PARTNERSHIP

Classes are for those who are pregnant & their supporters, and anyone who wants to deepen their connection to birth and parenting. Whether you choose to birth at home or hospital, education is empowering.

BELIEVE…

  • in the intelligence of nature (physiology) and natural law

  • that each baby and every birth are sacred

  • all women have the innate power to claim their labor and birth

  • that childbirth and parenting are a dyad, they go hand in hand

EXPECT…

4 wisdom packed classes to optimally prepare for your birth that will change your life. This is an opportunity to reclaim, shift and understand yourself and your partner in your pregnancy, labor, birth, and newborn journey.

Class 1: Nutrition. True Informed Consent. Freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives. Unwished for surprises.

Class 2: Labor and what is ALL involved in it. Tools and guidance to prepare your body, mind and heart. How your partner can show up.

Class 3: Navigating Birth and tools for an easier birth. Newborn care and needs. Parenting starts in the womb. Notice how you were parented and what your beliefs are.

Class 4: Breastfeeding tips and bonding support. What the postnatal period looks like, receiving care and help for your recovery.

GOALS for these classes are to…

  • expand on the wisdom we all have around pregnancy, birth and parenting, and shed the myths

  • empower you to develop full trust of self and own your birth with full confidence

  • know the concept of freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives

  • understand informed consent, create respect for personal choice

  • body ready method of aligning your body and baby to prepare for optimal birth experience and recovery

  • techniques to lengthen, release, improve and balance your pelvis, breath, core, pelvic floor and movement

  • understand that all of these goals weave together in pregnancy, birth and parenting, and it will bring peace to our world

Contribution $500 for 2 people

$150 non-refundable deposit holds your place. Venmo @Mieko-Aoki and please email info@aokibirthingcare.com with your Name(s), phone number and your venmo name. Once your spot is secure, we will forward you instructions to obtain a worthwhile prerequisite to bring to class and other important information!

Limited class space, waiting list available.

 

MIEKO AOKI STEWART, CPM, LM, AS, BA, CH, Home Birth Midwife, Certified Herbalist, Practitioner of the Traditional Maya Way of Healing for Women/Abdominal Care, Body Ready Method Pro