Perinatal Education Services Offered:

childbirth preparation classes | birth options consultation

Wholistic Birth Support and Childbirth Education of Southern California

511 North Avenue 66 , Unit F

Los Angeles, CA 90042

626-388-2191

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Brochure for Wholistic Birth Support and Childbirth Education

Flyer About Birth Preparation Classes

"My intention is to convey to you the true nature of childbirth such that you will perceive the possibility of birth not as a predicament, but as an opportunity for transformation. The journey through childbirth provides you with a possibility of experiencing yourself as capable, magnificent, courageous, trusting,and strong--fully empowered as a woman and a mother."

--Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot, Childbirth Educator

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE THESE CLASSES?

Because we educate about and promote:

• Informed consent and refusal in maternity care--not only is it responsible and ethical, women who felt they had decision-making power during birth had improved self-esteem and bonding with their babies (Goldberg, 2009).
• Alternative choices in childbirth such as homebirth, waterbirth, birth centers and midwife-assisted birth.
• Physiological childbirth--it's natural and normal, and results in healthy outcomes for mothers and infants.
• The lifelong importance of maternal-infant attachment.
• Breastfeeding--it protects and improves maternal and infant health for a lifetime and is also eco-friendly.
• Awareness of spiritual and emotional aspects of birthing.
• Awareness of the influence of the woman's social environment on pregnancy, birthing, and breastfeeding.
• Family involvement in the birthing process.
• Complimentary modalities for pregnancy and childbirth: acupuncture, chiropractic, herbology, etc.
• Attachment parenting as the most sensible way to develop happy and secure children.

In short, we trust birth. We believe in you. We help you develop confidence for birthing, breastfeeding and parenting.

Our childbirth educators and labor support professionals are selected by us for their commitment to service, love of women and babies, intellegence, compassion, sensitivity and intuition.

We help you develop a vision for your birth; we support you to manifest it.

Course Overviews

The Four Week Series

Class One: Understanding Birth

• Preventing premature birth
• Eating right for healthy pregnancy
• Coping with common discomforts of pregnancy
• How your body works in labor and birth
• How labor begins
• The phases and stages of birth
• When to go to the hospital or call the midwife to come to your home (if you are planning a homebirth).
• If planning a homebirth, how to arrange for hospital support and prepare your home.

Class Two: Coping with Labor

• Breathing techniques and relaxation exercises
• Positions for easier, faster and more comfortable labor
• Support techniques for birth partners
• Positions for effective pushing
• Trusting your body's wisdom
• The benefits of natural childbirth or "physiological childbirth"
• Orgasmic birth - how this is possible
• The role of the Doula--your partner in manifesting the birth you desire

Class Three: Making Informed Choices

• Choosing the place of birth: hospital, home or birth center
• Choosing your birth support provider: midwife or obstetrician
• Clarifying your needs and wants for childbirth
• Pain medication options: epidurals and analgesics; risks and benefits
• Advantages and disadvantages of medical procedures (induction of labor, electronic fetal monitoring, episiotomy, etc) and their effect on labor, mother and baby
• Tips for communicating with your doctor, midwife or labor and delivery nurse
• Informed consent and refusal--understanding your rights
• Birth by cesearean and Vaginal Birth After Cesearean
• Creating a birth plan

Class Four: Postpartum, Your Amazing Newborn and Breastfeeding

• Postprtum adjustments: physical and emotional
• Bonding with your amazing newborn baby
• Newborn medical procedures: benefits and risks
• Breastfeeding Basics:
  • Benefits of breastfeeding for mothers, fathers, babies and society
  • How your breasts make milk
• Keeping up your milk supply
• Preventing sore nipples
• Tips for dealing with common issues
• Working or going to school while breastfeeding
• Pumping and storage of breastmilk

Private Childbirth Preparation Classes

Baby's birth day just around the corner? Need last minute classes? Schedule too hectic to attend a series of classes? Prefer individualized instruction rather than group classes? Private childbirth preparation classes are the answer. Customized to suit your interests and budget, taught in the intimacy and comfort of your own home, instructor comes to you and transform your livingroom into a childbirth classroom.

Please review topics in Four Week Series and choose the topics that interest you. Classes are personalized to meet your needs.

Lending library of childbirth books, birth DVDs and VHS are included.

Referrals to midwives, obstetricians, waterbirth centers, freestanding birth centers and doulas included.

Refresher courses for parents who've given birth before, sibling preparation and Breastfeeding education and consultation also available.

Call or email to schedule your classes.

Birth Options Consultations

Private phone, email or in-person consultation available.

This session, which is usually 2 hours, taught in your home or by email or phone, will help you to:

• Decide where to have your baby: hospital, birth center or home
• Compare and contrast the midwifery and medical models of childbirth
• Choose your birth attendant: midwife or obstetrican
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of hospital, birth center and childbirth at home
• Learn about Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
• Learn about the waterbirth option
• Learn how Orgasmic Birth is possible
• Learn about the benefits of Doula Support and Enhanced Doula Support/Monitrice Services
• Learn how complications and emergencies are handled in out-of-hospital birth
• Find out about insurance coverage for childbirth at home
• Prepare siblings for childbirth participation
• Get a referral to doctors, birth centers, waterbirth centers, doulas and midwives
• Get answers to your pregnancy questions

  Call or email to schedule your consutation.

About the Instructor

Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot, MPH, CHES, CCE, CBA

Certified Childbirth Educator and Certified Birth Assistant, accredited by ALACE since 1991, has taught hundreds of couples and attended births as an Assistant Midwife and Doula/Monitrice in hospitals, homes and birth centers. She has a Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Health Education and Promotion/Maternal Child Health from Loma Linda University. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) acredited by NCHEC, the gold standard for professional health educators. She has extensive experience working in the public health arena in Los Angeles. She is also wife to John Cheruiyot and the mother of two home-born children (in 1989 and 1991), Aria Eve Hanna and Dylan Forest Hanna.

"Cordelia is by far the most qualified being on the planet to instruct pregnant women to give birth as they were meant, with dignity, trust, knowledge and joy !! Her years of training as a midwife, doula, and advocate for women's right to have choices in pregnancy and childbirth make her one of the best resources in this area. With love and compassion, she nurtures and inspires expectant mothers and empowers them to create the birth experience they want. She is a promoter of maternal/child health globally, reaching out to all communities and cultures to create safe and healthy birth." - S.G.

PRICING FOR CLASSES AND CONSUTATIONS

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"Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot"

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511 North Avenue 66 Unit F, Los Angeles, CA 90042

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Pay for Classes and Consutations

Private Childbirth Preparation Classes (per hour) $45.00 Birth Options Consultations (per hour) $45.00 Group Childbirth Preparation Classes (per 4 Week Series) $250.00