RECOMMENDED CLASSES SCHEDULE

Between Weeks 4-12

So You're Pregnant, NOW what?

Between Weeks 4- Delivery Date

Prenatal Yoga

Prenatal Fitness Education

Between Weeks 15-20

Prenatal Massage

Between Weeks 20-30

Infant and Child CPR Class

Between Weeks 28-30

Childbirth Education Classes

Between Weeks 30-35

Baby Care Basic

Between Weeks 32-37

Breastfeeding Class

Between Weeks 35-37

Prenatal Massage for delivery

Between Weeks 35-37

Daddy Boot Camp

BABY ARRIVES!

Baby is Week 1 Old

Private Lactation Consultant

Baby is 2-4 Weeks Old

Happiest Baby on the Block Class

Baby is 3-5 Weeks Old

Back to Work/ Pump For Success

Baby is 6 Weeks

Mommy and Me Yoga

Baby is 1-6 Months Old

Infant Massage Class

Baby is 5 Months +

Tot Playgroup

Baby is 6-24 Months Old

Childproofing Your Household

CLASSES

So You’re Pregnant, NOW What?
The stick says you're pregnant, now what? This class will focus on those first few weeks of finding out your pregnant until you have the chance to head to your appointment with your OB or midwife. It will be based solely around how to choose your care provider, putting your birth team together, nutrition, vitamins, exercise, books titles, bonding with your unborn baby, minimizing pregnancy discomforts, what is normal vs. danger signs and dad’s important role and feelings. This class will help to answer questions you wish you had time to read in all those great books everyone keeps telling you about. No need to worry, this 1 hour class will help answer all of your questions. Bring a notebook.
Instructor: TBD
Date: Please call Sweet Beginnings for upcoming dates
Time:
Cost:

Childbirth Education (4 week series)

This class will give you the knowledge you will need to prepare for the choices you'll be making during your childbirth experience. This fun and interactive childbirth class that meet for four weeknights is an evidence based curriculum that will cover:

- Birth philosophies

- Stages of labor

- Comfort measures

- Medical interventions and pain relief

- Practical information for your support person

- Newborn care

- Brief look at breastfeeding - we recommend that you attend the Breastfeeding Class offered at Sweet Beginnings for a more in-depth experience.

Participants will also receive handouts and the book "Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn" by Simkin, Whalley, and Keppler.

This class will provide you with the knowledge to make informed choices for the birth of your baby.

*Minimum 2 couples per class

*Maximum 6 couples per class

Instructor: Kirsten Dehmlow, CCCE

Dates: Oct 30th, Nov 6th, 13th, 20th

Dec 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $125 includes a book and handouts

Childbirth Express
This one-day class is for those who are unable to attend a regular childbirth education series. Although we recommend a longer class, this one will help you if you are short on time. Homework and reading will be given to fill you in. If this is not your first pregnancy, you may want reminders of what is available to you, how to participate fully, and what your support person can do to help during the labor and birth. Since baby care and breastfeeding issues are not covered you are encouraged to attend one of these classes for a review. There will be an update on pain relief options and hospital practices. This class will provide:

Practice in labor and pushing techniques
Overview of labor and delivery
Childbirth choices
Active birth
Communicating with caregiver
When to go to the hospital
Tried and True Comfort Measures and Support Techniques
Comfort measure practice
Relaxation and visualization practice
Overcoming challenges in labor

Participants will receive a workbook and additional handouts. Please bring some pillows and snacks for the day. You may bring a lunch or order from any of the several restaurants in walking distance during the break. Three hour follow-up practice and Q+A class available.
Instructor: Nikki Wellensiek, LCCE, CHBE
Date: Please visit the calendar for upcoming dates
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $125 per couple

VBAC Class
Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) Class is for couples who have previously delivered by Cesarean and are exploring delivery options for an upcoming delivery. Clarify your birth concerns and expectations, learn about VBAC safety statistics and incorporate your past birth experience(s) into your plans for this upcoming birth. Review of labor and delivery process. Previous birth experience discussion and reframing exercises Is VBAC for me?

Exploring your options
Building a birth team
Communicating with your caregiver
Relaxation and visualization practice
Overcoming challenges of labor
Increasing your VBAC opportunity
Various homework assignments, games, videos
Finding your resources
Childbirth Refresher Class also suggested

Instructor: TBD
Date: Please call Sweet Beginnings for upcoming dates
Time:
Cost: $75 per couple

HypnoBirthing®
The HypnoBirthing® Advantage: * Eliminates the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome before, during and after birthing. * Eliminates or greatly reduces the need for chemical painkillers. * Eliminates fatigue during labor, leaving mother fresh, awake, and with energy for actual birthing. * Promotes family bonding. * Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience nature intended. * Creates a more integral role for the birthing companion. You Will Learn: * Relaxation and self-hypnosis techniques to eliminate the fear and tension that cause long labor and pain, replacing them with confidence, calm, and comfort Other techniques to produce a shorter, more comfortable labor. * How the mother’s body is designed to work in neuromuscular harmony with nature throughout labor. *

For more information and to sign-up please visit www.hypnoBirthing.com
Instructor: Jacie Gonzales, CLD

Date: This is a 5 week class and are held on Tuesday evenings.
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Cost: $300 per couple, includes a book and 2 cd's

Bradley Method®
As you are considering which childbirth class will work best for you, I would like to give you some information about my philosophy and what you will learn during the series. These classes will provide preparation for natural childbirth while cultivating acceptance of all outcomes. I will present to you a consumer-oriented, woman and family centered approach, which emphasizes meeting challenges and nurturing yourselves and your baby for the best possible start in your child’s life. This course focused toward couples who want to educate themselves about the birth process and whose goal is a natural childbirth.
Classes focus on:
~Exercise and Nutrition
~Stages of Labor
~Trusting your body during the labor process
~Relaxation and Visualization
~Pros, cons and alternatives to medical interventions
~Creating a birth plan
~Preparing for unexpected situations
~Breastfeeding
~Circumcision, immunizations and standard treatments

For more information and to sign-up please contact Sweet Beginnings for instructor information
Instructor: Jill Burbach, AAHCC, CLD
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Cost: $300, includes workbook, handouts and lending library

Meet the Doula's Night
"Meet The Doula's Night" is a casual meet-and-greet with several doulas. Join other new and expectant parents in learning more about the benefits of birth and postpartum doula services. You will also receive an overview of what it is that doulas do, understand how dads/partners and doulas work together, and discover how to find the right doula for you.

What to expect?
The doulas will be available to answer questions, offer personalized referrals, and represent some of the wonderful variety of people, backgrounds, and skills you can find in birth and postpartum doulas. Time is also given for brief “get acquainted” interviews with individual doulas, typical doula costs,

What is a doula?
Doula is an ancient Greek word for "a woman experienced in childbirth who serves another woman during her childbirth time". She is dedicated to serving and supporting the mother in whatever way is needed, from helping to focus on breathing and relaxation, to comforting massage during labor, to teaching/reviewing the birth process in discussions. She adds to the mother and partners education, and boosts confidence by her warm and caring presence. The Doula does not replace the partner, doctor, nurse, or midwife, but works together with them to ensure that the mother has the optimum birth experience. A doula is a woman who helps women and their families through labor and birth. Here are some of the statistical changes in a birth that a doula makes.

Benefits of having a trained Doula:
During labor: *50% reduction in the cesarean rate *25% shorter labor *60% reduction in epidural requests *40% reduction in oxytocin use *30% reduction in analgesia use *40% reduction in forceps delivery
After birth: *Improved breastfeeding *Increased time spent

Date: Please call Sweet Beginnings for upcoming dates
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Happiest Baby On The Block
Sleepless nights, crying baby, marital stress? Learn an extraordinary approach to calming your baby. New parents will learn step-by-step how to help babies sleep longer and how to soother even the fussiest infant in minutes…or less! The class includes: the missing 4th trimester, the calming reflex, the 5 S’s and the Cuddle Cure. Open to expecting and new parents.

Instructor: Nikki Wellensiek: LCCE, CHBE
Date: This class is currently being offered the 4th Saturday of each month.
Time: 10-12pm
Cost: $50 per couple, includes DVD and soothing sounds CD.

Daddy Boot Camp

Boot camp

The Best First Gift a father can give...
his baby, his family, himself.

At Boot Camp for New Dads, expectant fathers explore and experience fatherhood by engaging with “veteran” dads and their 3 – 5 month old babies. Veteran dads bring their babies, and share their recent experiences from before, during and after child-birth. They share their wisdom, their mistakes, their triumphs and their frustrations. Expectant, or “Rookie” dads bring their unique questions and concerns to a 3-hour session structured by a Boot Camp coach to provide as much information and interaction as possible. The time is well spent. This course equips “rookies” dads to take the life-changing step of fatherhood very well, and prepares them to avoid dozens of mistakes, head-aches and general regrets along the way.

Instructor: Schuyler Totman
Date(s): This class is offered once a month. Currently, the dates are as followed:

October 23rd
November 13th
December 18th

Time: 6pm-9pm
Cost: $30 per Dad

Baby Facts
Will our lives ever be normal again? This class will cover common concerns to build your confidence as new parents. Topics covered include:

Finding your pediatrician
How to prepare for the end of life as we know it
Newborn appearance
Newborn talents
How to hold your new bundle
How to soothe a fussy baby
Secrets to a good nights sleep
Diapering and bathing 101
How to tell if your baby is sick
Tracking your babys weight
What to do about bossy (but well-intentioned) friends and relatives
What babies want

This class will cover the first weeks at home with your newborn. There will also be tips on equipment and supplies, including a list of stuff you donâ€™t really need. When the stork arrives, you'll be ready!

Instructor: Marylyn McCullough and Madelaine McCullough
Date: November 8th
Time: 10am-12pm
Cost: $55 per couple

Prenatal Yoga

In Prenatal Yoga, we focus on postures, breathing, and meditation to help ease pregnancy, delivery and the after effects of birth. The classes create flexibility, focus, strength, and awareness through a gentle practice that is designed especially for the pregnant woman's needs. Prenatal Yoga classes provide a safe and supportive environment for expectant mothers and are a wonderful way to connect with other mothers-to-be. The classes are appropriate for both new and experienced yoga students.

Please wear clothes that are comfortable and that you can move and breathe easily in. I recommend you bring your own yoga mat, however, I do have a few available to borrow.

What to bring: A note from your doctor, 2 pillows, water, towel, and, if you have one, a yoga mat.

Class size is limited, so please register early.

Instructor: Mandi Thompson, RN, BSN, CYI

When: Please visit the calender for upcoming dates

Time: Friday's 5:00pm-5:45PM

Fee: $10.00 Drop-in Rate

$45.00 - 5 Pack Session
$80.00 - 10 Pack Session

* With the purchase of a Pack Session, your first yoga visit is FREE!

Pre-Natal Fitness Education

Finally! A class that gives moms the chance to take charge of their fitness while pregnant. Exercise during pregnancy is not only safe, but is recommended for healthy moms. This education class is taught by an Advanced Personal Trainer who is certified to train Pre and Post-Natal clients. The class will take an in-depth look at how exercise benefits the mother and child and discuss some of the FAQ’s and myths associated with exercise and pregnancy. Other topics that will be covered:

-Proper abdominal exercises

-How muscles are affected during pregnancy

-Proper duration, frequency and intensity at which you should workout

-Specific exercises and stretches to help prevent or manage symptoms associated with pregnancy

-Understand how hormones affect exercise

-The Do’s and Don’ts of exercise during pregnancy

-Current ACOG Guidelines

-Much, more…

Whether you are a beginner, recreational or competitive athlete, this class will help you understand how to properly exercise while pregnant so you can reap the health benefits of exercising during pregnancy. Handouts and personal workout advice will be given during the class.

Instructor: Celeste Goodson, B.S., ACE AHFS

Dates: Mon. Nov 17th, Thurs. Dec 4th

Times: 6-8pm

Cost: $50, includes Handouts

* Please sign up for this class by calling Sweet Beginnings @ 303-317-5795 <back to top>