Empower your birth journey with a comprehensive Childbirth Education

This childbirth series combines the wisdom and practice of GentleBirth and Birthing from Within. In this course, you will learn all the nuts and bolts about labor, birth, and postpartum, with an emphasis on mindfulness, deep relaxation techniques, and partner support.

Leave feeling calm, confident, and in control for your positive birth experience.

 

Next offering: JANUARY 18 &19, 2025

Our popular two-day weekend workshop in January

at the Peace Offering. Downtown Truckee, CA

chose your investment between $370-$650

Cost covers two attendees (you+partner or other support person) a comprehensive childbirth education, postpartum prep (infant feeding and how to prepare for the early weeks). You will also receive a colorful comprehensive and interactive workbook complete with a postpartum guide. Neither lodging nor food is included in this price.

partners are encouaraged to attend

REGISTRATION 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.

Heads up: This course tends to fill up due to limited space, so enroll sooner rather than later to ensure your spot.

ABOUT GENTLEBIRTH EDUCATION

GentleBirth combines holistic guidance, brain science, birth science and technology to empower your positive birth through preparation.

Mental Preparation

Building confidence in your mental and emotional resilience is learned and improves with instruction and practice.

Navigating Your Options

Understanding your options for navigating your birth preferences allows you to feel calm and in control.

Physical Comfort Measures

Learning advanced comfort measures and having a full toolkit of strategies is important for you and your partner.

WHO IS THIS Course 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 2-day workshop?

  • COMPREHENSIVE CHILDBIRTH PREPARATION WORKSHOP WHERE YOU WILL LEARN EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR YOUR LATE PREGNANCY, LABOR, BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM TIME.

  • GENTLEBIRTH COURSE “YOUR POSITIVE BIRTH BEGINS HERE!”

  • PRENATAL YOGA, GUIDED MEDITATION, AND 2 SELF-HYPNOSIS sessions 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

YUP, There’s an App for that!

Brain Training Mobile App

The GentleBirth App provides everything you need for a more relaxed positive pregnancy, birth and parenting journey. Each day you’ll be guided through our unique brain training program tailored exactly to your circumstances. You’ll learn simple effective breathing, mindfulness and medical hypnosis techniques that you’ll use long after your baby arrives.

get it HERE for Apple

get it HERE for android

Also Included in Workshops

  • Physiology of the normal birth process

  • Fear Vs Relaxation in during birth - keeping adrenaline at bay

  • Sports psychology techniques for pregnancy and birth

  • The neuroscience of a GentleBirth - rewiring your brain from fear to confidence

  • Facilitating the perfect balance of hormones in labor - undisturbed birth

  • Breathing techniques and Comfort measures

  • Advanced comfort measures for labor and birth (what you and your partner can do at each stage)

  • Active birth including the use of the birth ball, peanut ball, and water immersion

  • What happens when you get to the hospital: Communication with care providers, solutions and interventions, medicated birth information

  • Golden Hour and the first newborn moments- care tips and best practices.

  • Breastfeeding and Chest-feedingbasics

  • Newborn Care, Local Resources for additional support if needed.


“This class is for you if You want to learn tools to access during labor and practical tactics for your partner to support you along the way.  

you want to have a positive birth experience. That looks different for everyone, and that’s okay.

Andrea goes into detail and shares ways to best use our minds and bodies so we can optimize the power we have had all along.  She presented the material in a fun and often HUMOROUS way while still holding space for the serious depth of this experience.”

-GentleBirth Mama 2020