Gillian uses her background of teaching childbirth education for the past seven years, combined with a strong love of current research, to look beyond method based approaches, and instead bring something completely new to you in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

What is a Comprehensive Childbirth Education Series?

First, we explore the myriad of topics you’d expect, including: nutrition, positions, labor stages, anatomy, coping skills and strategies, breathing, and partner support. However, we’ll along delve into the intricacies of mental imagery, the emotional (i.e. hormonal) component of birth, as well as postpartum prepartion and recovery.

Further, we’ll explore what the difference is between an intercession and an intervention, that is, we’ll explore epidurals, inductions and augmentation, and family-centered cesarean births.

Thus, making this a class appropriate for homebirthers and planned natural births alongside planned medicated or high risk births. As a result, you’ll make friends in a supportive environment without judgement to birth labels, and instead focsued on your birth outcome.

Finally, in Class 6, you’ll take a full Breastfeding Class, which has also been designed based on research into outcomes, with input from years of students, by a Certified Lactation Counselor.

All students also have access to a password protected portion of this site with extra information, articles, and videos.