Build Confidence: By knowing the facts about pregnancy, labor and
birth the mother and her partner can feel fully confident in her ability to
give birth and trust in the natural process. By having basic breastfeeding knowledge and understanding normal newborn behavior, families can set themselves up for breastfeeding success and a smoother transition to new family life.
Give Your Baby a Healthy Start: Pregnancy matters. Birth matters. Both your pregnancy and type of birth your baby has affects his/her health and well-being for a life-time. Having a birth with the fewest interventions/medications possible helps your baby to have a very good start in life. When interventions or a cesarean are necessary, knowing what to advocate for to help your baby get the best possible start and a smooth transition to life outside the womb is invaluable.
Empower Mama with a Good Birth: Birth is a profound rite of passage that affects the new mother physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. A Bradley class is a safe space for the mother to explore her feelings about her upcoming birth and develop a deep sense of trust in her body, her baby and the process of birth.
Give Your Partner Power Tools: Bradley totally stands apart from other birthing
classes in helping new fathers/co-parents know exactly what to do for their partners
during pregnancy, labor and birth, and post-partum. Partners who know how to
support the pregnant and birthing woman feel more involved and confident. The special focus on
fathers/co-parents helps the partner to know exactly how important their role really is.
Be in Charge: Most of my couples can have the natural birth they
desire. Sometimes a couple has a labor that requires medical intervention; couples taking my class have felt that the course prepared them with the necessary
understanding, skills and terminology to dialog with their medical caregivers
and make informed decisions to have the very best birth possible.
Create Community: A Bradley class is a terrific place to meet other
like-minded parents who have similar goals to yours. In class we share,
discuss, question and support one-another on this unique and wonderful journey. Many of my couples continue to get together long after the series ends.
Benefit from Personal Attention: Bradley Method classes are intentionally small and intimate in order for each couple to receive the personal attention and support they need during this special time in their lives. Birth and parenting are about relationships -- having a positive, nurturing and real relationship with their prenatal instructor helps give expectant parents the support and confidence they need as they transition into life as a new family.
A Bradly Method series is...