Knowledge/Skills Practice
Private Birth Class

'ROOKIE' PARENT?
Breastfeeding - Baby Care Class

Natural Beginnings Perinatal Classes
Pregnancy - Natural Birth - Breastfeeding - Parenting

My statistics show with 545 Birth Class Students over the last 28 years:

92.5% (530) delivered vaginally
7.5% (54) delivered by cesarean

Clients gave birth in the following choice of location:

55% (300) In Hospital 34% (185) At Birth Center 11% (60) At Home
85% (463) - of our vaginal birth deliveries had no medications
15% (82) - of mothers used medication (for labor, delivery or repair)

Natural Beginnings’ records show, of our clients with midwife attended
births, 95% had vaginal births. (whether hospital, home, or birth center)
97% of midwife attended vaginal deliveries had no meds for labor or birth

Midwifery care lays the foundation for unmedicated labors & births.

Evidence shows ‘untrained birthing couples’ have increased: pain,
incidence of interventions, medication use & higher cesarean rates.

My own personal breastfeeding and natural birth experiences, the training, specific certifications and my years working as a birth doula, have given me additional insights into the unique needs of expectant and laboring women and their birth partners and families.
It is an honor to provide skills, confidence and empowerment to these new parents. I feel I can bring a personal understanding to my birth education courses, preparing my expectant parents for an active, alert and a positive experience through pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and their period of the postpartum adjustment, as they parent, sooth and feed their newborns!