Fall Childbirth Education Workshops (Sept - Dec)
Birth and the Postpartum Journey: From Inner Knowing to Informed Action + Restorative Recovery
This holistic and evidence-informed series offers birthing people and their families a grounded and expansive preparation for labor, birth, and the early postpartum period. Whether you’re a first-time parent or deepening your knowledge for another birth, each session invites you into a place of empowerment—blending practical tools with deep trust in the body’s wisdom.
Together, we explore the anatomy and physiology of labor, informed decision-making in hospital settings, personal values in planning your birth, and restorative care for the tender transition into postpartum life. Each workshop stands on its own, or can be taken as part of the full arc.
This series centers you—the birthing person—and honors birth as both a biological process and a sacred rite of passage.
For descriptions of each individual workshop in the course series, please check the dates of the workshop.
These 2-hour sessions run on a seasonal cycle, each focusing on a specific stage of the birth and the postpartum journey.
Each workshop of $55–$75 sliding scale per person, with 15% off for Unlimited Members.
No refund if canceling within 24 hours of the workshop. Any other cancellation request will be a fund transfer to your Momence account for future use or a rescheduling to a future workshop. Please plan mindfully and communicate as needed.
🌀 The Innerworkings of Birth: Anatomy, Physiology, and the Rite of Passage
Sunday, September 28, 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Together, we’ll explore:
the stages of labor and their unique physical and emotional markers, the role of hormones and how they support labor progression, signs that labor is approaching, baby's active role in labor (there are no passengers in this experience!). Fetal positioning, the vital role of the placenta, the importance of early bonding and close contact for newborn regulation and body/breast feeding and more.
This workshop weaves clinical knowledge with deep respect for childbirth as a sacred rite of passage, helping participants feel more informed, attuned, and connected to the process of giving birth.
🧠 Informed & Consensual Birth: Navigating Your Options in Hospital and Birth Center Settings
Sunday, October 5 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Join Leonora for this essential workshop designed to help you better understand your rights, options, and choices within the hospital setting. We’ll explore:
Common labor and postpartum interventions—what they are, how they’re used, and why they’re often routine
The evidence behind practices like induction and augmentation (especially in light of the ARRIVE Trial)
Tools for informed decision-making and advocacy, so you and your birth team can confidently navigate your care
What to expect as labor nears (around 36 weeks onward), including:
Cervical exams and fetal heart monitoring
Saline locks and artificial rupture of membranes
Pain relief options (epidural, nitrous oxide, IV meds, and more)
Early newborn care decisions—cord cutting, skin-to-skin, and routine wiping of the baby
Whether you're a first-time parent or a doula, this workshop supports you in reclaiming consensual, respectful, evidence-based care at one of the most significant times of your life.
Partner Prenatal Yoga w/Labor Comfort Measures
Sunday, October 12
12:30 - 2:30 PM
Participants of a birth team duo will learn how to center and support the birther in breath, connection to self, relaxation, movement and positions easing labor pains and conducive to move through labor in all its stages. The workshop focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, massage techniques for relaxation and labor encouragement and counter pressure to help ease the sensation of surges. This workshop is held monthly and is great for birthing folks to take from week 33 onward, but peple can take this mutliple times whenever they're looking to connect with their partner in pregnancy and in preparation for baby's arrival.
🗺️ Mapping Your Birth: Values, Preferences & the Power of Planning
Sunday, October 19, 2025 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Birth rarely unfolds exactly as planned—but that doesn’t mean planning isn’t worthwhile. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create a birth map—a flexible, values-centered approach to birth planning that can help guide your decision-making before and during labor.
Together, we’ll review some of the information from the previous workshop regarding Navigating Your Options in Hospital Settings to know and understand what core values, feelings or outcomes matter most to you, knowing your north star:
Clarifying your birth values and communicating them effectively
Making room for flexibility and the unexpected
How to talk with your provider about your preferences
Creating supportive roles for your birth partner or team
Knowing your non-negotiables and where you’re open to shift
Whether you’re birthing in a hospital, at home, or at a birth center, this session helps you prepare from a place of clarity, calm, and connection to your own inner authority. You will receive a few templates for birth plans that you can use to build your own and take into the hospital with you and share with your care providers.
🪷 Preparing for Postpartum with Intention
Sunday, October 26, 2025 12:30 - 2:30 PM
While much of birth preparation focuses on labor and delivery, the early postpartum period is equally deserving of care, foresight, and community support. In this workshop, we’ll gently guide you through planning for your first 40 days postpartum—what many cultures consider a sacred window for healing and bonding. Together, we’ll explore:
Setting expectations for physical recovery and emotional shifts, building your postpartum care team and asking for help, meal planning and nourishment for healing, navigating newborn care while caring for yourself, creating rhythms of rest, bonding, and connection, ways to involve and support partners or co-parents. You’ll leave this session with a plan for postpartum care plan and a deeper sense of how to center your own wellbeing as you center your baby's during this powerful time of transition.
👶 Newborn Feeding & Feeding Care
Sunday, November 2, 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Caring for a newborn is both profound and full of new learning. This 2-hour workshop is designed to give parents and families the tools, confidence, and perspective needed for those first tender weeks. Together, we’ll explore:
Newborn Basics: bathing, diapering, cord care, soothing techniques, safe sleep guidelines
Feeding Foundations: chest/breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and combination feeding options
Hunger & Satiety Cues: how to recognize baby’s signals and establish feeding rhythms
Digestive Health: burping, spit-up, reflux, and supporting baby’s comfort
Bonding & Regulation: skin-to-skin contact, baby-wearing, and responding to newborn cries
Partner/Family Roles: ways your support team can nurture both baby and parent during the early weeks
This session blends hands-on practicality with evidence-based information, while holding space for your questions and unique family circumstances. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what newborn care really looks like, how to navigate early feeding, and how to approach this time with confidence and connection.
Partner Prenatal Yoga w/Labor Comfort Measures
Sunday, November 9 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Participants of a birth team duo will learn how to center and support the birther in breath, connection to self, relaxation, movement and positions easing labor pains and conducive to move through labor in all its stages. The workshop focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, massage techniques for relaxation and labor encouragement and counter pressure to help ease the sensation of surges. This workshop is held monthly and is great for birthing folks to take from week 33 onward, but peple can take this mutliple times whenever they're looking to connect with their partner in pregnancy and in preparation for baby's arrival.
Partner Prenatal Yoga w/Labor Comfort Measures
Participants of a birth team duo will learn how to center and support the birther in breath, connection to self, relaxation, movement and positions easing labor pains and conducive to move through labor in all its stages. The workshop focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, massage techniques for relaxation and labor encouragement and counter pressure to help ease the sensation of surges. This workshop is held monthly and is great for birthing folks to take from week 33 onward, but peple can take this mutliple times whenever they're looking to connect with their partner in pregnancy and in preparation for baby's arrival.