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| Planning for pregnancy, birth or a new baby? This class will help you sort through your options and provide you with a wealth of community resources, coupons & samples. Oh, and we’ll feed you too! The Early Pregnancy Class is for any woman thinking about starting a family, any couple that thinks they might want to start a family and anyone who already has children and wants more education and information. Your questions and needs will guide our discussion of the following topics: Day 1 *Choosing a care provider * Hospital, birth centers and homebirth options * Prenatal classes and services * Nutrition and exercise Day 2 * Pregnancy, labor and postpartum doulas * Healthcare support during pregnancy and postpartum * Baby and new mom essentials * Breastfeeding resources and accessories * Natural Parenting & Eco-friendly baby care Grab bags full of community resources, handouts. coupons, tea and much more will also be provided. Date: October 17th and 18th (Saturday & Sunday) Time: 5:00 - 8:00 pm Where: Nurture 1614 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR 97211 Cost: The fee for this class is based on a sliding scale. $75-$90 for both days. Or $40-$50 to attend just one day. Eats: Dinner will be provided. When registering, please notify us of any dietary considerations Raffle: At the end of the second day a raffle will be held and wonderful, community prizes will be given Contact: Angi Gunther, LCCE confidentbirth@gmail.com 503.890.1361 or Courtney Jarecki courtney.jarecki@gmail.com 503.737.8834 Angi Gunther has been supporting new families in Portland since 2002. She is the mother of three children born in 2001, 2004 and 2008. Her children have inspired her work as a Doula, Breastfeeding Advocate & Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. She believes parents need complete information about their options so they can make truly informed decisions. Angi currently teaches Confident Birthing Childbirth Education classes at Nurture. Courtney Jarecki is owner of Full Moon’s Daughter, a professional doula and pregnancy education service. She tends to new moms and babies at a birth center and is a midwifery student. Courtney believes that every woman can have the birth that is perfect for her if she is aware of all her options. Courtney’s path in life is to guide woman toward motherhood. |
| Workshops |
| Childbirth Education with Angi Gunther, LCCE What is Confident Birthing? Just as a woman’s body is designed to grow and nourish her baby during 40+ weeks of pregnancy, her body is perfectly designed for birth. A woman who is confident will trust her baby to come when he or she is ready. She will rely not only on science, but also on her inner knowledge and trust of the process to make decisions during labor. Confidence in the birth process and in her ability to cope with labor decreases the amount of pain she will feel and increases her satisfaction with her birth experience. This is important because the way a woman feels about her birth will have an impact on other areas of her life. A positive experience will have positive affects on her self-image as a woman and as a mother. Confident Birthing leads to confident parenting! Confident Birthing is a 3-week childbirth education series. We will meet Saturdays at Nurture. Please check the calendar for upcoming classes. We will discuss •pregnancy & birth as a normal yet significant experience in a woman’s life •the role of pain in labor •the emotional and physical needs of the birthing mother •the role of her partner and •birth from the newborn’s perspective. The fee for this class is $125 per couple. This includes class materials and yummy snacks each week! Email me at confidentbirth@gmail.com to sign up. Confident Birthing is based on the principles of Lamaze International and supports Lamaze’s Six Care Practices for Normal Birth. For more information on Lamaze, please visit http://www.lamaze.org For more info or to register for classes, please email Angi at confidentbirth@gmail.com |
| Moving Beyond a Difficult Birth: Embracing Healing and Connecting with Your Baby The experience of birth doesn’t always happen the way we imagine. Intense emotions from a challenging pregnancy or birth can make it feel difficult to be fully present with your baby. These emotions need and deserve to be expressed and acknowledged, before we can allow ourselves to release them and begin true emotional healing. Then we can relax more deeply into a heartfelt, intuitive connection with our children. Part One: Birth Healing through Story and Art Telling your birthing story in a guided, safe, supportive circle of women can be a profoundly powerful experience. In Part One of this workshop, we will share birth stories, while exploring with artistic and body-mind tools to find the roots of emotions such as anger, shame, grief or confusion, as well as sources for deeper understanding and peace. Through expressing and releasing we will invite emotional healing. Part Two: Connecting Deeply with Your Baby What our babies most need from us is heartfelt connection. In Part Two of this workshop, we will explore creative exercises for healing our emotional connections with our babies after a difficult birth experience, helping us bring forth our intuitive wisdom as mothers for welcoming our babies fully and lovingly into our lives. Embracing Healing and Connecting with Your Baby Part I September 12th & 19th, 2-4pm $45 (for both) To register, please choose from the following options:
Sarah Nuxoll: After several years of feeling frustrated as a parent, I began working toward deeper body-mind clarity and emotional and spiritual healing. Now I feel excited about helping myself and others to engage life, move with our creativity, and allow ourselves to feel happy as parents. In these workshops, I share insights from my experience as a mother of two, as a spiritual practitioner, and as a former apprentice homebirth midwife. I look forward to meeting you! Mychelle Moritz: Having experienced the beautiful yet challenging transition to parenthood, I have developed a passion for helping women and their growing families. I am an artist, an art therapist, and a licensed professional counselor, as well as the co- founder of Nurture. My two active young children keep me very busy and I enjoy watching their creative antics. |
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