Childbirth Prep Intensive 3-day: In-Person

• CLASS DESCRIPTION
• DETAILS
• FACILITATOR(S)

The non-member rate for this 3-Day Intensive is $429 and the member rate is $343. The registration fee includes two caregivers of the same child.Click here to purchase your membership today.

• Class Description

  We strongly recommend that you complete your prenatal education no later than your 36th week of pregnancy. Starting this course between weeks 28-32 will allow you time to comfortably integrate the content into your birth preparation and further explore topics that spark your interest.

  Note: Many classes fill up quickly! The earlier you register, the more options and flexibility you’ll have regarding class dates and times.

  More than just a condensed version of our 5-week class, the 3-day intensive outlines the labor process and uses it as a guide for experiential learning while catering to parents who may not be able to meet for five consecutive weeks. Our intensive meets three times, rather than once or twice, in order to give you time to absorb the information, come back with questions, and create more lasting relationships with other parents. We also allow for some flexibility in the curriculum to better engage parents at their level of knowledge and interest in the given topics.

  This course educates parents so they can make informed decisions around the birth of their child and maintain comfort during labor and birth. We draw from a variety of preparation methods to give a holistic and well-rounded approach. Parents get to experience what works best for them. While many of the pregnant people taking this class will go on to have unmedicated births, our real focus is on “normal” or physiologic birth. We define “normal birth” as birth with confidence and joy, rather than with fear guiding decisions or actions. Our goal is to create a nonjudgmental and safe environment where everyone feels welcome and can participate.

  Aside from educating pregnant people and their partners on the physiology, hormones, and emotions of birth, we practice a variety of comfort and relaxation techniques and positions that enhance the progression of labor. Our 11 hours of class time includes:

  -Videos
  -Discussion of informed choice
  -Common interventions
  -Pain relief options (pharmacological and nonpharmacological)
  -Hospital and home birth options.

  Please Note:

  -Content covered in these sessions is included in the Details section below.
  -The course fee includes a supplemental digital booklet filled with supporting information and resources.
  -The registration fee includes a partner/support person.
  -This class is intended for pregnant people. If you are not pregnant or you are interested in attending as a professional, please contact us at classes@ for more information.
  – You may be eligible for full or partial reimbursement for this course through your insurance. Click here to view more details.

  
  IMPORTANT IN-PERSON POLICY: If health and safety concerns warrant it (uptick in COVID-19 infection, poor air quality due to wild fires, etc) all in-person classes may be moved to a virtual format. Refunds and rescheduling, would not be offered in these circumstances. By signing up for in-person classes you are agreeing to this stipulation. We reserve the right to make this change at our discretion
  

• Details

  The outline listed below is intended to serve as a loose guide for your class time pending the interests of each cohort. Our facilitators skillfully prepare for each cohort by reading through student submissions before the start of session 1. You will receive a welcome email 5 days prior to the Intensive with the link to the questionnaire.

  Your facilitators welcome feedback throughout the course to ensure they are meeting student expectations while presenting accurate and up-to-date information.

  Day 1: Sunday, 9:30am-1:30pm

  -Understanding the Anatomy and Physiology of Labor & Birth –Preparing in Pregnancy
  -First Stage of Labor Positions Practice
  -When to call your provider/go to the hospital
  -Tips & Tools for Connection, Comfort and Making Choices

  Day 2: Wednesday, 6:00-9:00pm

  -Comfort Measures
  -Pain Theories & Coping Practices
  -Hospital Routines
  -Birth Plans

  Day 3: Sunday, 9:30am-1:30pm

  -Review of Material Covered
  -2nd & 3rd Stages of Labor
  -Pain Management Options
  -Cesarean Birth
  -Your Newborn
  -Newborn Routines
  -Early Postpartum

• Facilitator(s)

  Reise Tanner is a seasoned doula, educator, Certified Life Coach for moms, helpers and healers, Advanced Birthing From Within Mentor, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and mother who has worked with hundreds of families on their birth journeys. She believes that each birth has the power to be transformative and meaningful for everyone involved and that those who support new parents deserve support, as well. Her mission is to change the world by shifting the culture around birth, making it friendlier to mothers, babies and the next generation.

  She is currently completing a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and certification in Eco-Psychology, writing about birth and mothering, and facilitating new mom groupsincluding her signature programs: Wild Return and Wild & Rooted. She has attended many midwifery and birth-related trainings in the US and abroad, spoken publicly on several panels and presented to the medical community. She has also been a yoga instructor since 1997, a holistic women’s health practitioner certified in The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy for pregnancy, postpartum and newborns, and a Lactation Counselor.

  Reise first began birthwork after attending the Natural Resources doula training (just for fun) and is a longstanding member of the core education team. Her classes blend practical information, up-to-date research, fresh insight, traditional wisdom, story-telling and experiential learning that engages mind and body in a sacred and supportive space.

  Lauren Miller Brown is a San Francisco Bay Area native who specializes in providing nurturing, connective, therapeutic massage, doula services and childbirth education classes. She has been a birth doula for since 2007 and feel very fortunate that she is so passionate about her work and that she found it at such a young age. Her work continues to inspire her to this day and she can’t imagine doing anything else.

  Lauren’s road to birth work began after taking a Doulas of North America training in 2007. After completing her Doula certification she enrolled in Alive and Well! The Institute of Conscious Bodywork in Marin County. Lauren completed her massage training in 2008 and has been working as a bodyworker ever since. After massage school, Lauren worked as a massage therapist at The Mindful Body in San Francisco from 2009-2015, focusing on prenatal massage in particular, as well as with a wide variety of clients, including athletes, yogis, and San Francisco’s tech community.

  Nile Nash MSN, RN, WHNP-BC, CNM is a mama of two little boys and currently offers postpartum midwifery care packages and sleep consultations. Nile is also a certified as a Child Passenger Safety Technician through Safe Kids Worldwide and will renew her certification every two years. Nile’s technician number is SKID #T839019. Her practice, Mama Lion, was born in 2005 when she started out as a DONA Doula and Birthing From Within Mentor before attending UCSFs MEPN Masters program from 2007-2010 to become a nurse midwife. Mama Lion Midwifery thrived in San Francisco for 9 years in the beautiful community of homebirth midwives in the Bay Area. The last few years have been consumed by birthing and raising two little ones during the pandemic and tending to her family. The newest chapter of her calling as a midwife has focused Niles professional role on the fourth trimester postpartum period. Mama Lion now cares for families who birth in the hospital but have the wisdom to set up a postpartum plan. Nile is thrilled to be working with the Natural Resources family as the newest facilitator of the New Mothers Circle and the Pregnant Together Circle. www.mamalion.org