Newborn Master Class
Virtual!
Calling all first time expecting parents!
I have been educating and supporting new parents for over 25 years. As a Mom of 4, Certified New Parent Educator, Postpartum Doula, and Infant Sleep Consultant I am passionate about preparing you the magical 4th trimester postpartum journey with your newborn.
This interactive and comprehensive 3 part class series provides you with evidence-based education, skills, and the tools you need to confidently trust your new parent intuition when bringing your baby home!
Baby Care 101, Postpartum…and more!
Utilizing evidence-based information, discover essential strategies, tools, and baby care basics, including diapering, burping, newborn health and safety, babywearing, postpartum recovery and wellness, new parenting teamwork strategies, and bonding with your baby through responsive and mindful parenting.
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✺ Hospital preparedness, newborn health, postpartum planning, and new parent teamwork strategies
✺ Discover how to love your postpartum body, navigate its changing hormones, and learn optimal self care tips
✺ Baby care basic information including: diapering, swaddling, burping, babywearing, sleep, and much more.
✺ Normal newborn development: their behavior, language, and how babies tell us what they need.
✺ Recognizing hunger & sleepy cues and how to respond.
✺ Why babies cry and how to calm and soothe a crying baby.
✺ Establish healthy bonding and emotional connections with your baby based on nurturing neuroscience and healthy brain development
✺ Being mindful and creating a nurturing and deep connection with your baby
Newborn Feeding Class:
Fed is Best
Did you know that sleeping outside the womb is a learned skill for newborns? In this integrative, gentle sleep class, you will learn how to create good sleep habits from birth. Grounded in natural newborn sleep biology (no ‘cry it out’ involved), nurturing neuroscience, attachment parenting, and mindfully responding to your baby’s needs, this class will equip you with the skills necessary for peaceful parenting so the whole family can enjoy restful sleep!
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✺ Breastfeeding basics for success: optimal feeding, positioning and latching
✺ Breast health & nipple Care
✺ Anatomy & hormones
✺ Breastfeeding challenges
✺ Infant positioning & latching
✺ How to identify if baby is eating enough: normal newborn feeding, fullness
✺ Gassy baby solutions
✺ Bottle and combination feeding basics
✺ Partner feeding support and ‘sharing the feed’ options: Combination feeding protocol for breastfeeding & bottle
Newborn & Infant Sleep Class:
Happy Baby All Day!
Sleep does not have to be a struggle for you and your baby! Did you know that a newborn does not know how to sleep outside the womb..but they can ‘learn from you! The Om Baby Sleep Method is an easy, gentle, and integrative sleep learning approach (no training or ‘cry it out’ involved) based on natural newborn sleep biology, nurturing your baby, and mindfully responding to their needs. Sweet dreams!
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✺ Sleep safety
✺ Reading your baby’s hunger and sleepy cues.
✺ Swaddling, sound machines, pacifiers, and safe sleep.
✺ Learning when your baby needs to sleep, including sleep cues & wake windows
✺ Naps, flexible daytime and night routine protocols
✺ Establishing healthy sleep habits
✺ Secrets to soothing and calming a fussy baby
✺ How to achieve fuller feeds for longer night sleep blocks
✺ Self-soothing and Independent sleep
✺ Mindful parenting and how to learn your unique baby’s language