Birth Preparation
🌿✨ Experience a calm, confident, and secure birth! ✨🌿
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As a postpartum doula, I offer birth preparation classes for couples or small groups to support you, future parents, on this incredible journey.
With clear and compassionate guidance, you will gain essential knowledge to understand the birth process, navigate the different stages of labor, and make informed choices. This preparation will bring you peace of mind, confidence, and security, allowing you to welcome your baby with greater ease and assurance.
I also provide practical tools to help you experience this moment with serenity: breathing techniques, positions to ease pain, relaxation methods, emotional management, and partner involvement.
My goal is to offer you a space for listening and sharing, where you can ask all your questions and learn to approach this experience with more confidence and gentleness.
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✨ Together, let’s prepare for a birth filled with confidence and serenity. ✨​​​
Why Take a Birth Preparation Class?
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Feeling Safe: Understanding the birth process and its different stages helps you approach labor with more confidence.
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Building Confidence: You will be physically and emotionally prepared, enabling you to make informed decisions and fully embrace this unique moment.
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Involving the Co-Parent: They will have an essential role and will know how to support you effectively on the big day.
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Learning Relaxation Techniques: Breathing, movement, pain management—valuable tools for a calmer and more positive birth experience.
Topics Covered in Your Birth Preparation
My birth preparation classes are designed to provide you with essential knowledge and practical tools to help you experience this journey with confidence. Here are the topics we will explore together:
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1. The Role of Hormones in Labor
Understanding the role of hormones (oxytocin, endorphins, adrenaline…) and how to support their natural function for a smoother and more peaceful birth.
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2. The Stages of Labor
We will go through each phase of labor and birth, covering:
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What happens in your body
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Possible sensations
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Tips for pain management for both the mother and the co-parent
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3. Baby’s Movements During Birth
Babies are not passive during birth! We will explore how they move and navigate their way into the world and how you can support them in this process.
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4. Understanding and Managing Contractions
We will discuss how contractions work, their purpose, and effective tools to cope with them.
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5. Breathing and Sound: Key Tools for Labor
Learn how to use breathing and sound techniques to relax, conserve energy, and support labor progression.
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6. Acupressure Points for Labor Support
Discover acupressure points that can help relieve pain, stimulate contractions, and promote relaxation.
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7. Birth Positions and Resting Positions Between Contractions
Explore postures that aid the baby’s descent and help you relax between contractions.
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8. Additional Tools for a Smoother Birth
Warm baths, massage, rebozo, relaxation, visualization… We will go over natural methods to support your labor experience.
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9. Keys to a Calm and Confident Birth
How to create an environment that supports a physiological birth while respecting your own rhythm.
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10. The Importance of the Co-Parent’s Role
Providing support, reassurance, and practical help to create a safe environment and accompany the mother during labor.
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✨ Personalized Support for a Calm and Confident Birth ✨
Every couple is unique, which is why my classes are tailored to your specific needs and desires. My goal is to equip you with the knowledge and tools to approach birth with more confidence, security, and ease.
The preparation
This birth preparation class lasts 3.5 hours and can be taken in a small group or as a private session at home.
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You can book your session from week 30 of pregnancy, ideally before week 37
Prix:
in a small group
1750 sek / couple
875 sek / personne *
in private
3000 sek / couple *
*For in-home treatment, I move around Göteborg and the surrounding area. For distances over 15km around örgryte, an additional 10 kr per km will be charged.