Childbirth Education Class Series

Illuminate Your Birth Journey is an in-person three class series taught by an experienced doula and childbirth educator that will take away the overwhelm of birth prep while covering everything you and your partner need to know to feel prepared for your birth.

Learn about your options, practice comfort measures together for labor, strengthen your advocacy skills, and gain confidence in your ability to give birth and begin your parenting journey!

The pros of taking a class in-person at the cozy Illuminated Birth & Co community space: Join us to prepare for the adventure of a lifetime in a comfortable space, practice hands-on comfort measures, get all your questions answered, and meet some other local parents-to-be, too!

This class is open to anyone planning to give birth at any of the local hospitals or at home. As an active birth doula, your teacher has experience at the majority of the local hospitals, birth centers, and with local home birth midwives. We address local hospital policies and how they might affect your birth experience in our advocacy conversations during the class. Learn more about why it’s great to take an independent (not taught by your hospital) birth class here or listen to this podcast episode where Megan speaks about the topic of independent birth classes and building your village!

Topics covered in class:

• Signs of labor and how labor may begin

• The stages of labor and how to tell when it’s time to go to the hospital, birth center, or call your care provider

• The many types of comfort measures and pain management options available to you, including a chance to practice some methods during class

• Ways to help labor progress if things stall or slow down

• How to advocate and ask questions to be an active participant and decision maker in your birth

• What to expect from the staff/culture/environment at your birth location (as an active doula, your instructor has attended births at almost all of the local birthing locations!)

• All types of birth will be covered, including vaginal birth (medicated/unmedicated/assisted) and cesarean birth (planned/unplanned)

• The immediate postpartum and transition home after birth

Classes are interactive and kept to a maximum of 6 sets of participants to allow for questions and community building.

If the class you are interested in is full, please reach out to join our waitlist! We do occasionally get last-minute openings.

About your instructor:

Megan Peasley is the owner of Illuminated Birth and a certified childbirth educator with the Boston Association of Childbirth Educators (BACE). She is also an active birth doula, birth photographer, and all-around birth nerd who loves to help families through this joyful time of transition. Learn more about Megan here.

Pricing

Three class in-person series: $270, which gets you two seats—one for you and one for your chosen birth support person. Note to birth doula clients: contact Megan for a discount.

Maximize your value with a bundle discount:  Bundle our phenomenal core prenatal classes taught at Illuminated Birth & Company and save!  Signing up for Illuminate Your Birth Journey below will automatically qualify you for a discount to Newborn Care (taught by Jen Patashnick). It will also get you discounts on either of our wonderful breastfeeding prep classes: Breastfeeding Basics (taught by Caitlin Inglis) or Prepared Lactation (taught by Teresa Coyle-Airey). 

Register and pay in full for any of these classes, and you will receive a discount code to use while registering for the other two classes!

FSA/HSA cards accepted. Certificate will be issued after the class as proof of completion if needed for insurance reimbursement. Yes, your insurance should cover this class!

Contact me if the price is a financial burden. I offer discounts/sliding scale as needed, because I truly believe everyone should have access to a high quality birth class!

Because space is limited, the class fee is non-refundable unless your space is filled from our waitlist prior to the class starting.