Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot, MPH, CHES, CCE, CBA
Certified Childbirth Educator and Certified Birth Assistant
Pregnant? Seeking Birth Preparation (lamaze) Classes? Childbirth Educator Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot has prepared hundreds of pregnant women and their partners since 1991.
Services Offered
childbirth preparation classes | birth options consultation
Wholistic Birth Support and Childbirth Education of Southern California
PO Box 41933
Los Angeles, CA 90041
626-388-2191
Email:
Call or email for the dates of the next class series or to schedule a private lesson.
Birth Preparation Classes and Consultations
Childbirth Preparation Classes
Group Four Week Series or Private Sessions
Prepare for Homebirth or Natural Childbirth in the Hospital or Birth Center, make informed childbirth choices, develop trust in birth, and improve your confidence for giving birth and breastfeeding and cultivate acceptance of unexpected outcomes.
Group classes are 3-1/2 hours per session. Weekend classes offered. Email or call for the dates of upcoming series.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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
Class Two: Coping with Labor
- Breathing techniques
- 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 can you too can have one!
- The role of the Doula--your partner in acheiving the birth you want
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
- 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
- Postpartum adjustments: physical and emotional
- All about your amazing newborn baby
- Newborn medical procedures: benefits and risks
- Breastfeeding: Making it work
Private Childbirth Preparation Classes
Private sessions are also available. Customized to suit your interests and budget taught in the intimacy and comfort of your home. Refresher courses, sibling preparation also available. Breastfeeding consultation. Call or email to schedule your class.
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
- Choose your birth attendant: Midwife or Doctor
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of hospital, birth center and childbirth at home
- Learn about Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
- Learn about the benefits of Doula Support and Enhanced Doula Support
- Learn how complications and emergencies are handled in out-of-hospital birth
- Find out about insurance coverage for homebirth
- Types of midwives
- How to prepare siblings for childbirth participation
- Referrals to midwives for hospital birth or homebirth
- Referrals to Doula Support
- Referrals to doctors supportive of natural childbirth
- Get answers toyour questions
About the Instructor
Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot, MPH, CHES, CCE, CBA
Certified Childbirth Educator and Certified Birth Assistant, accredited by ALACE, who, 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 Mast
ers 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. She is also a wife and mother of two home-born children.
"Peace on Earth Begins with Birth"
Call for pricing of classes and consultations
Payments by check, money order,debit or credit at Paypal
For Further Browsing:
Why Have Natural Childbirth? by Shelly Girard, CPM, LM, MPH
About Midwives and Homebirth by Cordelia Hanna-Cheruiyot, MPH, CHES, CCE, CBA and Shelly Girard, CPM, LM, MPH
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