Birth & Babies Signature 10 Week Series
The most comprehensive prenatal and postnatal experience. Classes run for 10 consecutive weeks, beginning about 6 to 7 weeks before your due date and continuing beyond birth. A celebration is held on the last class.
Ideally, your baby is born between weeks five and seven of the series, then you and baby come back to class. If you select a class that begins too early, or too late, you will not get the full benefit from the classes and full participation.
By setting up a log-in and account with your due date, this will help you to register for the best Birth and Babies Signature series to match your due date. If there is more than one series available at that time, select the most convenient location.
Prenatal topics week 1 to 5
- Signs of labour
- How labour progresses
- When to go to the hospital
- Breathing, relaxation, positioning, and other comfort measures
- Medical procedures
- Pain medications
- Decision-making
- Breast/chestfeeding
Prenatal topics week 6 to 10
- Baby care basics
- New parent tips
- Community resources
- Communication and relationships
- Getting out and about with baby
- Infant massage
- Travelling with baby
- Home safety and health
$235
Birth & Babies Essentials Series
Discussion, multimedia presentations, and practice sessions are used to help you prepare for labour, birth and parenting.
Topics include:
- Signs & stages of labour
- How labour progresses
- When to go to the hospital
- Breathing, relaxation, positioning, and other comfort measures
- Community Resources
- Pain medications
- Decision making
- Medical procedures
- Breast/chestfeeding
- Baby care basics
- New parent tips
Birth & Babies Essentials is offered in a variety of formats to meet your needs. Choose from:
Birth & Babies Essentials Weeknight (6 weekday evenings – 2 hrs) $145
Birth & Babies Essentials Weekend (4 Saturdays – 3 hrs) $145
Birth & Babies Essentials Weekend (2 Saturdays – 7 hrs) $145
Birth & Babies Essentials for Midwifery Clients (6 classes – 2 hrs) $145
This series, intended for those receiving midwifery care, builds on the support and information you already receive from your midwife. You will have an opportunity to understand how you can work with your body’s own ability to labour, birth, and breast/chestfeed. The emphasis is on coping, comfort, and support techniques useful for late pregnancy, labour, birth, and the early postpartum period. Includes baby care and feeding baby.
Birth & Babies Essentials for Young Adults (4 classes – 2 hrs) FREE
These free classes are for pregnant individuals 20 and younger. They are two hour classes held one evening a week for four weeks. The participant is welcome to bring a support person to class.
Twins & Triplets Birth & Babies Essentials (7 classes – 2 hrs) $145
This series builds on the regular Birth & Babies Essentials with emphasis on the impact of having multiples. Information on premature birth, the care of preterm babies and practical strategies for feeding and caring for your babies is covered. Don’t forget to sign up for your free Twins, Triplets and More class presented by TTMAC that is included with your purchase of a Twins and Triplets Birth & Babies Essentials series.