EARLY PREGNANCY CLASS
If you just found out you are pregnant and can’t wait to learn about yourself as a mother, what you need to eat to grow a healthy baby, and how your baby is growing…This is the class for you! You don’t have to wait until you’re seven months pregnant to take a class! Take time out now to get answers to important questions, sometimes through thoughtful reflection. Enjoy learning prenatal exercises and connecting with other new parents.

CHILDBIRTH PREPARATION
Typically our classes meet as small groups of three to six couples in a comfortable, nurturing class environment. You will learn lots of practical information about labor and caring for your newborn through thought-provoking dialogues, memorable exercises and interesting videos. Read more about our BIRTHING FROM WITHIN^® Childbirth Classes. Classes may be offered as a six-week series; four 3-hour Saturday classes, or weekend intensives.   

  • Reflect and learn from their previous birth
  • Dust off old pain-coping techniques that worked & learn new ones
  • Take time to enjoy this pregnancy
  • Connect with this baby through interesting and enjoyable journaling and art.

All experienced parents are welcome: parents who took, and those who did not take, a BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Class during a previous pregnancy, can sign up for Birthin’ Again.

POSTPARTUM CONNECTIONS
Every parent knows that prenatal classes and giving birth are not the end, but the beginning of their journey as a parent. That’s why many BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Mentors offer postpartum classes that provide new parents with reassurance, helpful information, and rewarding connections with other new parents.

BIRTH STORY CIRCLE
When thinking about the birth of their child, mothers and fathers often have mixed feelings of joy and grief, guilt, anger or depression. Especially when the baby is healthy, most people discount the importance or validity of a parent’s negative feelings about the labor or birth. Left unresolved, negative feelings and beliefs undermine the joy and confidence of parenting, and can negatively affect relationships with partner, baby, friends and work.
If a Mentor in your area is offering BirthStory Circle, and your past birth experience is interfering with your peace of mind or positive anticipation of an upcoming birth, then don't wait. Change the way you feel about your birth in a BirthStory Circle.

Private sessions can often be arranged.

Pam England offers Birth Story workshops for the public, and private phone consultations as well.

CESAREAN HEALING & INFORMATION™  (CHI™)
This class is a must for all expectant parents seeking to birth-in-awareness, and for expectant parents who have already experienced a cesarean birth.

You will learn:
•  What you need to know about cesareans: up-to-date research 
•  How to know when cesarean birth is necessary
•  How to "Give Birth" by cesarean
•  How to transform fear into coping
•  What fathers and partners can do at a cesarean birth

Even when parents do everything "right", even when they do everything humanly possible to avoid having a cesarean, sometimes a cesarean is necessary. Holistic childbirth preparation is not limited to birthing normally; it also includes practical preparation for coping with the unwished-for events of labor. If you are pregnant now, and gave birth by cesarean before and feel traumatized, also attend a BirthStory Circle.

If you have other questions about Birthing From Within Classes, or you are wondering how our approach is different from other methods, your questions may be answered on our Frequently Asked Questions page.