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

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"Cordelia is by far the most qualified being on the planet to instruct pregnant women to give birth as they were meant, with dignity, trust, knowledge and joy !! Her years of training as a midwife, doula, and advocate for women's right to have choices in pregnancy and childbirth make her one of the best resources in this area. With love and compassion, she nurtures and inspires expectant mothers and empowers them to create the birth experience they want. She is a promoter of maternal/child health globally, reaching out to all communities and cultures to create safe and healthy birth." - S.G.

BIRTH PREPARATION CLASSES AND CONSULTATION

for hospital, birth center or planned homebirth

Group Series or Private Lessons

Prepare for natural childbirth in the hospital, birth center or home. Make informed childbirth choices, cultivate trust in birth. Develop acceptance of unexpected outcomes. Improve confidence for giving birth and breastfeeding.

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).
• If planning a homebirth, how to arrange for hospital support and prepare your home.

• Breathing techniques and relaxation exercises
• 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 this is possible
• The role of the Doula--your partner in manifesting the birth you desire

• 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; risks and benefits
• 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
• Bonding with your amazing newborn baby
• Newborn medical procedures: benefits and risks
• Breastfeeding Basics:
  • Benefits of breastfeeding for mothers, fathers, babies and society
  • How your breasts make milk
• Keeping up your milk supply
• Preventing sore nipples
• Tips for dealing with common issues
• Working or going to school while breastfeeding
• Pumping and storage of breastmilk

Private Childbirth Preparation Classes

• 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/Monitrice Services
• Learn how complications and emergencies are handled in out-of-hospital birth
• Find out about insurance coverage for homebirth
• Prepare siblings for childbirth participation
• Get a referral to doctors, birth centers, doulas and midwives
• Get answers to your pregnancy questions

  Group classes are 3-1/2 hours per session for 4 weeks. Evening and weekend classes offered. Email or call for the dates of upcoming group series, or to schedule private lessons or birth options consultation.

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  WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE THESE CLASSES?

  Because we educate about and promote:

  • Informed consent and refusal in maternity care--not only is it responsible and ethical, women who felt they had decision-making power during birth had improved self-esteem and bonding with their babies (Goldberg, 2009).
  • Alternative choices in childbirth such as homebirth, waterbirth, birth centers and midwife-assisted birth.
  • Physiological childbirth--it's natural and normal, and results in healthy outcomes for mothers and infants.
  • The lifelong importance of maternal-infant attachment.
  • Breastfeeding--it protects and improves maternal and infant health for a lifetime and is also eco-friendly.
  • Awareness of spiritual and emotional aspects of birthing.
  • Awareness of the influence of the woman's social environment on pregnancy, birthing, and breastfeeding.
  • Family involvement in the birthing process.
  • Complimentary modalities for pregnancy and childbirth: acupuncture, chiropractic, herbology, etc.
  • Attachment parenting as the most sensible way to develop happy and secure children.

  In short, we trust birth. We believe in you. We help you develop confidence for birthing, breastfeeding and parenting.

  Our childbirth educators and labor support professionals are selected by us for their commitment to service, love of women and babies, intellegence, compassion, sensitivity and intuition.

  We help you develop a vision for your birth; we support you to manifest it.

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 Masters 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, the gold standard for professional health educators. She is also wife to John Cheruiyot and the mother of two home-born children (in 1989 and 1991), Aria Eve Hanna and Dylan Forest Hanna.

"Peace on Earth Begins with Birth"

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PRICING FOR CLASSES AND CONSUTATIONS

Payments by check or money order. Or, by debit card or credit card at Paypal:

Services:

Group Childbirth Education Classes $250.00 Private Childbirth Education Classes (per hour) $45.00 Birth Options Consultation (per hour) $45.00 Labor Support Services $1,200.00

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