1 session, $75
1st Saturday of each month 9am-5pm
(Classes held at her home in Athens)
Contact: Barbara Steppe (423) 746-2860
This class acknowledges the rite of passage that birth is for women. During the course of this class, women and their partners will experience the modern "need to knows" like: Comfort measures, stages of labor, effective pushing, and how to recognize and cope with early labor while cementing these processes into their everyday lives with multi-sensory activities, including: birth art, sculpting, and the "Next Best Thing" game.
12 sessions, $200 (includes course workbook)
Tuesday Nights at LRBWC 7-9 pm
Contact: Marcia Bailey 932-2269
The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth is an intensive 12 week childbirth preparation course that emphasizes prenatal nutrition, labor preparation exercises and relaxation techniques to manage labor pain.
1 session, $25
Contact: Susan Nalls, LCCE 690-9216
The refresher class is designed for women who have given birth previously at the birth center or for women who have given birth in the hospital without the use of an epidural. The class highlights the many comfort measures available to women at the birth center. Comfort techniques include the use of visualization, relaxation, deep breathing, position changes, water and others.
6 session, $60
Contact: Cindy Stair C.D., ICBCLC 579-3714
In Lamaze Prepared Childbirth classes, the woman and her partner learn to actively respond to labor contractions and to find comfort through walking, rocking, rhythmic movements, position changes, massage, relaxation, deep breathing, heat and cold therapy, slow dancing, visualization, and the use of water. The partner learns to support the laboring woman emotionally and physically, responding to her needs. The class also covers the stages of labor, anatomy and physiology, pushing, postpartum and newborn care. Taught by a Lamaze International Certified Instructor.