Welcome to the Birth and Baby University Program!
Parenthood begins long before your baby arrives — and feeling informed, empowered, and supported can shape your entire experience. The Birth and Baby University Program is a thoughtfully curated collection of private, 90-minute Zoom classes designed to guide you through pregnancy, birth, and early parenting with clarity, confidence, and care.
Each session offers personalized education and holistic insight, blending evidence-based information with soulful preparation. You can book individual classes à la carte or combine them with Blissful Pregnancy Coaching for a more expansive, fully customized path.
Whether you're preparing for your first birth or expanding your family, these classes help you move forward with greater calm, understanding, and readiness for what’s to come.
Birth Partner Preparation
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This class is designed for birth partners, to learn how to provide effective and helpful physical and emotional support for you in labor. Birth partners or companions play a pivotal role during the labor process and ensuring a happy healthy birth experience. In this session we will answer your questions and address your concerns regarding the labor process to help you feel more at ease during birth.
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- The basics of childbirth and what to expect
- Understanding your role
- Overcoming fear and anxiety of seeing your partner in labor
- How to know if labor is progressing
- Physical and emotional comfort measures
- How to best advocate for your partner with the medical team
- The role of a doula and how she can help make your experience in labor better
- Tips on how to support your partner in the early postpartum period with breastfeeding and recovery
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Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
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This in-depth, private, 90-minute class helps expectant families be ready to start their breastfeeding journey with confidence in the early days and weeks after birth. Learn all you need to know about breastfeeding successfully and have all your questions answered!
This class is best taken prenatally between 30-36 weeks.
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- How to get breastfeeding off to the best start
- How to help your infant latch on and correct positioning
- How to know if the baby is getting enough milk
- Hand Expressing
- Essential breastfeeding supplies
- Nutrition for healthy lactation
- Nipple care
- How to avoid common lactation problems and when to call a lactation consultant
- Natural remedies
- Strategies to increase your milk supply
- Alternative feeding methods
- When and how to supplement
- Understanding common pitfalls to avoid in the early days
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Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Best taken between 30 and 36 weeks pregnant.
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In this class you will learn all about the postpartum period, what to expect and how to prepare for it physically, emotionally and mentally! The postpartum experience can be joyful, sacred and smooth, thinking about the postpartum period prenatally is the first step in the right direction.
This class can be taken at any point during pregnancy.
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Topics Include:
- Supplies you need to heal your body after birth
- Understanding the emotional landscape postpartum and signs of baby blues and postpartum depression
- How to maximize sleep
- Postpartum foods to assist your recovery and promote optimal health and lactation
- Tips for a faster recovery and self-care including vaginal or c-section recovery
- Traditional postpartum healing based on Mexican, Malaysian, and Moroccan midwifery
- How to maximize your maternity leave/ bonding with baby
- Resuming exercising and sex/ intimacy after birth
- How to create a postpartum plan including options for support
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
This can be taken at any point during pregnancy.
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Do you want to get a head start in understanding how you can support your newborns’ growth and development? This class will help you understand the stages and milestones of your baby’s development in the first year of life and provide tips and activities to stimulate your baby for optimal cognitive, emotional and physical development.
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-Understanding your Newborn
-Decoding your Babies Cues and sleep regressions
-How to promote Brain Development
-How to play with and stimulate your baby
-When and how to do Tummy time
-Recommendations for toys and developmental tools
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
This can be taken at any point during pregnancy.
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For all the moms who are expecting again, this class is for you! In this class you will learn what to expect when you’re expecting number two. The key to a smooth transition from 1 to 2 is preparation.
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- How to balance being pregnant with an older child
- How to prepare your older child for their sibling and strategies to help them cope mentally and emotionally
- How and when to make changes that will impact your first child
- Understanding sibling rivalry
- How to differentiate your experience from your first pregnancy and birth to this one
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
This can be taken at any point during pregnancy.
Child Birth Education
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In this comprehensive two-session class you will learn the ins and outs of childbirth so that you feel prepared for the big B day! Whether you are planning a home birth, birthing center, or hospital birth, epidural assisted or natural, after this class you will be ready for any direction your birth journey takes you!
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- Where and with Whom Birth
- Physiology of Labor and Birth
- Signs, Stages and Emotional Signposts of Labor
- Introduction to Comfort Measure and Pain Medication Options
- Labor Positions
- Understanding Birth Options
- Types of Labor Support–doula care, family, etc.
- Understanding Interventions and Writing Your Birth Plan
- Cesarean Birth and Prevention
- First Moments After Birth
- Placenta Options
- Postpartum Care and Recovery
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Spinning Babies
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Spinning Babies is a cutting-edge program created by Gail Tully that teaches moms how to prepare their bodies for birth by promoting optimal fetal positioning. In this movement-based class, you will learn how to create balance as your body changes and grows, use gravity, and move your body in ways that create more comfort and prepare for an easier more comfortable birth experience.
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- Learn the basic principles of Spinning Babies
- Understand optimal fetal positioning and help prevent malpositioned baby
- Understand how to perform the Daily and Weekly Essentials correctly
- Learn the techniques and positions that help facilitate an easier and faster birth
- Flip a breech or malpositioned baby
- Create a routine that increases your flexibility, creates balance and provides more space for your baby
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
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Prenatal yoga and meditation are key ingredients for a healthy and holistic pregnancy. Studies show that having a regular practice mitigates stress, boosts your immune system and promotes overall health and wellbeing. Prenatal yoga also helps promote faster and smoother labors! These 90 minute private classes, inspired by Kundalini Yoga, are designed to help you create a healthy body, bond with your baby and prepare your mind, body and spirit for birth.
Classes can be taken at any stage of pregnancy!
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- Each Yoga Class Includes:
- Asana Practice and Prenatal Flow
Meditation- Pranayama and Breathing Techniques
-Guided Relaxation
- Education on healthy pregnancy and birth prep
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Co-Parenting Happily
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Prenatal yoga and meditation are key ingredients for a healthy and holistic pregnancy. Studies show that having a regular practice mitigates stress, boosts your immune system and promotes overall health and wellbeing. Prenatal yoga also helps promote faster and smoother labors! These 90 minute private classes, inspired by Kundalini Yoga, are designed to help you create a healthy body, bond with your baby and prepare your mind, body and spirit for birth.
Classes can be taken at any stage of pregnancy!
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- Each Yoga Class Includes:
- Asana Practice and Prenatal Flow
Meditation- Pranayama and Breathing Techniques
-Guided Relaxation
- Education on healthy pregnancy and birth prep
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Infant Massage
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Infant massage is a wonderful bonding tool for new parents, especially for non breastfeeding partners and there are many known benefits to massaging your baby for both you and your baby! In this interactive class, you will learn all the tools needed to feel confident massaging your baby.
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- Benefits of infant massage on your child’s development
- How and when to massage your baby
- Creating the environment for Infant Massage and Supplies
- Various techniques to promote sleep, relieve gas or colic, provide stimulation and give your baby a relaxing massage they will be sure to love!
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Newborn Care
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Whether you are brand new to babies or have experience but want to refresh your memory, this private 90-minute class will help you feel prepared to take care of your little one when they arrive. Newborn Care is designed to help expecting families become familiar with the basics of infant care in the early days and weeks after birth. Take this class prenatally and an ideal time would be between 30-36 weeks.
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- Understanding normal infant behavior, communication, appearance and sleep patterns
- Understanding common newborn procedures in the hospital
- Understanding the basics of safe holding, soothing techniques, diapering, umbilical cord care, bathing, burping, swaddling, safe sleep, addressing gas and colic, & babywearing.
- Newborn warning signs and when to call the pediatrician
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Prenatal Yoga and Meditation
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This class is for parents with young toddlers or soon to be! Parenting and disciplining your baby who is now, walking and talking can be very overwhelming. They are big emotions in little bodies. If you want to take a holistic and child-centered approach to early discipline this class is for you! The toddler years don’t have to be stressful as your baby grows in independence. In this class, you will learn how to foster your child’s growing autonomy while at the same time creating safe and consistent boundaries.
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- Understanding toddlers emotionally and developmentally
- Yes parenting and why it works
- The difference between discipline and punishment
- Why tantrums occur and how to handle them
- Creating structure and routines that stick
- What to do about biting and hitting
- How to make smoother transitions from one activity to the next
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
Dancing for Birth
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Looking to make labor and delivery easier and more fun? Learn dance moves to promote an easier, more comfortable, and joyful birth experience. These labor dance moves will help you stay fit, reduce common aches and pains, and prepare your mind and body for labor. We will explore dance moves inspired by traditional Belly Dance, African, and Modern Dance that will help you use your sensations, movement, and gravity to birth your baby. No prior dance experience necessary just a willingness to move and have fun!
This class can be taken at any point during pregnancy.
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- Where and with Whom Birth
- Physiology of Labor and Birth
- Signs, Stages and Emotional Signposts of Labor
- Introduction to Comfort Measure and Pain Medication Options
- Labor Positions
- Understanding Birth Options
- Types of Labor Support–doula care, family, etc.
- Understanding Interventions and Writing Your Birth Plan
- Cesarean Birth and Prevention
- First Moments After Birth
- Placenta Options
- Postpartum Care and Recovery
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90-Minute Zooms 1:1
Accompanying PDFs
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Partners Welcome!
This can be taken at any point during pregnancy.
