VANCOUVER PRENATAL, BIRTH AND PARENTING CLASSES
I teach online Zoom and in-person birth prep and parenting classes. Contact me for more details, to register, and make e-transfer payment. All classes can be held privately in your home or on Zoom. Private rate $65/hr applies.
Breastfeeding Education
Expectant parents learn the basics for establishing successful nursing. Content: breastfeeding fundamentals, common challenges, nighttime nursing, and supplementation.
Location: Mt Pleasant Community Center, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver. Register directly with center. (604) 257-3080 (press 1)
Date: Sunday Nov 30 https://anc.ca.apm.activecommunities.com/vancouver/activity/search/detail/569004?onlineSiteId=0&from_original_cui=true
Time: 930am-12 noon | 2.5 hr
Investment: $85 per couple | 1 session
Birth Partner's Support Class
Support persons and those expecting) learn about childbirth as a rite of passage, and how to facilitate this transformational experience. To understand how normal physiology aids labouring women to work with 'life giving' pain, and how that and pleasure hormones play significant roles to optimize healthy childbirth. Support persons and their pregnant partners learn what conditions are beneficial to promote a comfortable, safe and satisfying birth experience.
Location: Mt. Pleasant Community Center, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver. Register directly with center. (604) 257-3080 (press 1)
Date: Sunday Dec 14 https://anc.ca.apm.activecommunities.com/vancouver/activity/search/detail/568768?onlineSiteId=0&from_original_cui=true
Time: 930am-12noon | 2.5hr
Investment: $85 per couple | 1 session
Practical Newborn Care Class
Parents (expectant and new) learn baby care skills. This class is particularly suited to those who have little to no experience with newborns. Practice bathing, swaddling, comforting, holding, burping, diaper changes and baby wearing. (Bring baby gear items along with a doll or teddy bear.)
Location: Mt. Pleasant Community Center, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver. Register directly with center. (604) 257-3080 (press 1)
Date: Saturday Nov 8 https://anc.ca.apm.activecommunities.com/vancouver/activity/search/detail/569002?onlineSiteId=0&from_original_cui=true
Time: 930am-1130am | 2 hr
Investment: $85 per couple | 1 session
Educational Webinar Series
These informational online series explore topics relating to pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Each unique series dives deeply into current evidence based material that will aid you in your choices and with decision making.
The medicalized model of birth with its over use of interventions and technology is explained, alongside ways to work within that system to optimize healthy, safe birth.
Series One: Postpartum: Life with Baby, Normal Infant Sleep, and Science of Attachment. Tuesdays November 18, 25 and Dec 2.
Series Two: Navigating Your Pregnancy Journey, Birthing Pleasure Hormones, and Birth Setting Options. Tuesdays January 6, 13 and 20, 2026.
Series Three: Physiological Birth, Epidural, and Induction. TBD.
Time: 7pm-815pm. Recordings will be provided, if unable to attend live session.
Investment: $45 per series
'Conscious Birth' Series
Prenatal Series of 8 Weekly Classes
Preparation for childbirth, breastfeeding and postpartum. Classes are comprised of interactive exercises, brainstorming discussions in small groups/pairs, as well as incorporating relaxation/breath awareness, practicing comfort measures and mindfulness.
2025 Fall Series: TBD
Time: 7pm-9pm | 2hr (classes 3 & 5, 2.5hrs)
Investment: $375
Privately taught series can be tailored to meet your specific needs, and condensed to cover exactly what you wish to learn. For example, a weekend course of 4 or 6 hours. Contact me for details.
Ecstatic Birth™
This 3 hour online class delves into birth: the history, our cultural beliefs, and the social messages about childbirth pain, to examine how this impacts the birth experience. Participants will gain eye-opening insights that reframe birth as a potentially pleasurable and ecstatic experience, and discover ways to access pleasure in birth.
Investment: $195
Can be taken as a private or group Zoom class.