This is a series of four classes taught by Melissa Haley of Wyld Garden Doula Services.

This class includes hands-on pain coping strategies, birth partner communication, practical information about labor, medical decision making, postpartum planning, and interactive activities and self-reflective work to build confidence and strengthen your ability to meet whatever the birth of your baby may bring.

You can expect to learn through "three ways of knowing:"

  • Modern knowledge about pregnancy, labor, and postpartum from an evidence-based perspective

  • Intuitive knowledge from an old-as-time perspective - the sort of knowledge that birthing mammals act out in our instincts

  • And self-knowledge, made of the meanings you take into birth and parenting. Understanding what is uniquely important to you is key to knowing how to access the first two types of knowledge.

  • Come ready to build confidence and strengthen your ability to meet whatever your birth may bring!


Class is capped at 4 couplings.


UPCOMING CLASSES:

1-Day Intensive class (9am-5:30pm):

Sunday, May 25th, 2025

Saturday, June 28th, 2025

Saturday, August 9th, 2025

4-week series class (6pm -8pm)

March session meets on: March 4, 11, 18, 25

Summer session meets on: June 24, July 1, 8, 15

Fall session meets on: September 9, 16, 23, 30

Fall session #2 meets on October 28, Nov 4, 11, 18


Registration is through Wyld Garden. Register below.

*This class satisfies the CBE requirement for unmedicated birth at the Birth Center of Chicago