Combine your Birth Class with a weekend getaway, and book a stay in Downtown Truckee!

Leave this two-day childbirth preparation workshop feeling refreshed, confident, and ready for your positive birth experience.

Enrollment is limited, so secure your spot today.

NEXT OFFERING: January 18&19, 2025 in Truckee, CA

This Fall retreat is best suited for expectant couples, partnered persons, or a single person with a friend due in Winter 2024 or early Spring 2025. Cost is based on two persons attending.

This Birth Class Weekend Retreat is located in Truckee, California just 15 minutes from Lake Tahoe:

3.5 hours from San Francisco, CA

1.5 hour from Sacramento, CA

35 minutes from Reno/Tahoe airport

Who is this retreat for?

• Expectant Couples * partners encouraged to attend

• Single Birthing person with a friend/support person

• First time birthing OR Birthing again. Families who are birthing for the second, third, or more times love this retreat because it’s a way to designate time focused on this pregnancy and prepare for this new experience.

What is included in the retreat?

• Comprehensive childbirth preparation workshop where you will learn everything you need to prepare for your late pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum time.

• colorful informative workbook

• GentleBirth course “your positive birth begins here!”

• mindful movement, Guided meditation, and optional self-hypnosis for deep relaxation in Labor

• practice positions for labor, comfort measures, and Pain coping techniques

• dedicated Postpartum workshop

• lactation and infant feeding workshop

• Partner tips and training, so your birth team is ready to rock.

• Deep work in preparing for birth and parenthood together. The benefits of this will be long lasting.

• connection: Meet other families on the same path

• Closing circle before departure on the final day

Investment:

Sliding scale (Pay what you’re comfortable within this range:)

$370-$650

This covers two participants (partners are encouraged to attend along with the birthing person) and includes a colorful workbook for the class to accompany the 2-day comprehensive childbirth prep workshop, guided movement and meditation, and 2 self-hypnosis sessions for deep relaxation.

Enrollment closes December 30, 2024

In an effort to make our classes accessible, please send an email to place a request for payment plans or partial scholarships should payment feel like a stretch.

Why attend this retreat?

• Take a weekend off with your partner and immerse yourselves in learning.

• Learn from local birth doula Andrea Schwartz, certified GentleBirth Childbirth Educator. In her class you’ll gain not only a comprehensive education on labor and birth, but you’ll also learn ways for tuning your mindset using mindfulness, meditation and self-hypnosis techniques.

• Experience in-person, hands-on training for comfort measures for labor and birth. (Partners! this is especially GREAT for you- you’ll learn ways to connect and support your laboring person with confidence for birth and also the important postpartum period.)

• Meet other couples that are also on this journey. Make new friendships. Share your stories and learn from each other.

• Take the opportunity to deepen your connection and intimacy with your partner as you both prepare to welcome a new addition to your family. Spend quality time together and disconnect from the everyday grind.

• Experience the beautiful Lake Tahoe area and Downtown Truckee. Lake Tahoe is only 15 minutes from Downtown Truckee where our class is hosted.

• The energy of the forest, soothing lakes, fresh mountain air, and nutritious meals will help you relax, renew and nurture your mind, body and spirit.

• Leave more confident and prepared for your positive birth experience!

Interested in learning more?

“Every expecting family should participate in this Birth Class Retreat. Not only is it informative, but it also gifts expecting people and their partners time disconnected from the distractions of every day life to really focus on each other, meditate, enjoy nature, and eat delicious food. You will get all of this and the kindness of the ultimate caregivers from the wonderful doulas who run the retreat, Andrea and Marissa.

I will absolutely be returning again when we are expecting our second kiddo!”

-Birth Class Retreat guest Fall, 2022

“Andrea was an amazing guide through the gentle birth course. She is engaging and very informative. She was very good at involving the participants of the class to share which is always a plus! She did a wonderful job covering what to expect in birth, birthing options/preferences, different techniques during labor, as well as gave us a great tutorial on what happens when baby is here. She is full of resources as well which is so helpful! She also focused on meditation and hypnobirthying practices. I would recommend this course to any mom (first timer or one who has a couple of kids)!”

-mom of two, Gentlebirth student, 2022

“Andrea’s intelligence surrounding the birthing process is as comprehensive as it gets. On a professional level, she is well informed and up to date with current research, offering a multitude of information that we found very helpful. On a personal level, Andrea is a highly intuitive individual with age old wisdom and a knack for just getting things right. The combination of these qualities is what makes her special. We feel blessed to have had Andrea with us along this awesome ride and couldn’t imagine doing it differently.”

~Heather & Larry, 2019