Childbirth Education with Madeline
Choose from a variety of classes tailored to your needs, covering everything from pregnancy and birth to postpartum and baby care.
Group Childbirth Education with The Little Blooming Warriors Birth Collective
Join Madeline, Jayme, Ariel, and Sesch for Childbirth Education! We are working together to bring our students the knowledge they need in a wonderful group setting. With the knowledge and experience of three different doulas teaching together, you’ll get MORE! More laughs, more perspectives, more preparation. You’ll get everything from anatomy and physiology of labor and birth to comfort measures and relaxation tools. Come join us!
This class is included in our First Time Parents package! Current Little Birdie Birth clients can choose their class dates here.
Cost for other community members: $355
This class meets the childbirth education requirement for Beginnings Birth Center clients.
The Full Catalog of Little Blooming Warriors Workshops!
Nourish & Nurture: Newborn Care and Breastfeeding
This class fulfills the newborn care and breastfeeding class requirement at Beginnings Birth Center.
Let’s begin at the beginning! Caring for a minutes/hours/days-old baby is a whole new world for most families! Let’s talk about everything from decisions about baby medications to newborn soothing, diapering to “where in the world is this baby going to sleep?!”, and of course, lots and lots of information on feeding this new little person! This workshop includes everything you need to feel prepared to nourish and nurture as you bring your new little person home.
Included for First Time clients, $145 for community members
Preparing Your Pelvic Floor for Birth & Beyond
Created by Dr. Rachel Barton, PT, DPT, with the help of several doulas from our community, this class covers pelvic floor topics for pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Discern fact from fiction as you learn some pelvic floor basics. Prepare for birth with strategies for reducing the risk for perineal tearing during pushing and crowning. Learn more about reconnecting with your pelvic floor postpartum, and answer the big questions about postpartum sex.
This workshop is 3 hours long, and is hosted monthly by Little Blooming Warriors Birth Collective and Primrose Pelvic Health & Wellness.
Included with Total Class Access, $99 for community members
Balanced Babes: Optimal Fetal Positioning
Created by Ariel Haynes and Jayme Brewington, this class will teach you all about how a balanced pregnant person creates a balanced babe and most importantly, a balanced, shorter labor with fewer complications! Join us for our 1-night workshop and learn about everything you can do while you’re pregnant, while you’re laboring, and during your postpartum period to stay BALANCED!
This workshop is 3 hours long and is offered on a monthly basis.
Included for Little Birdie Birth clients, $99 for community members
The Complete 4th Trimester Workshop
We've talked about your baby, your pregnancy, and your birth. Now, let’s talk about you! How can you care for yourself in the tender, transitional time that is the first 3 months of your baby’s life? This workshop will help you prepare your home, your mind, and your body for the beauty and challenge that is the 4th Trimester. Taught by our resident postpartum doula Grace and full of fun, interactive activities, this class is an important addition to your prenatal education!
This workshop is 3 hours long and offered monthly.
Included for all Little Birdie Birth clients, $99 for community members
Nutrition Through the Childbearing Years
Are you craving deli meat and sushi during your pregnancy? There’s probably a reason! Deidre Bloomquist brings a comprehensive nutrition workshop to teach you how to get through pregnancy, postpartum and beyond using nutrition as a means to not only fuel the body for optimal performance, but create a healing effect from the inside out. We specialize in women’s digestive wellness and hormonal healing, to include PCOS, endometriosis, period concerns, and fertility + pregnancy and postpartum nutrition.
This workshop is 2 hours long and offered monthly.
Included with Total Class Access, $55 for community members for class alone, $80 for class and lifetime access to Deidre’s “Always Growing” Nutrition Guide.
Rockabye Baby: Infant Sleep Workshop
A Neuroscience, Attachment and Mental Health Informed Approach! Come, hang out with me and let’s chat SLEEP! What’s healthy, what’s normal and what we can all do to get MORE sleep with our sweet little cherubs!
In this workshop you will learn about:
Infant brain development
Parenting the infant brain
Infant sleep biology and expectations
Safe sleep environments
Art of sleep
How to create a sleep plan
When and where to get help
This workshop is 3 hours long and offered quarterly.
Included with Total Class Access, $99 for community members
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Trimester Planning Workshops
You’re pregnant. What things are important? What symptoms are normal? Which things on the enormous list of “things to do” are priorities right now? We want to answer all these questions and more! Come hang out with our doulas to connect with others in the same stage of pregnancy as you, get the lowdown on what things are important in each trimester, and get all your burning questions answered.
These workshops are 1 hour for each trimester (only come to the one relevant to you right now!) and offered quarterly.
Included for all Little Birdie Birth clients, $25 for community members
Milky Babes: The Pumping Class
Are you going back to work away from your baby? Want to be able to leave for a date night every once in a while? Let’s talk about how to get milk in that baby' while they aren’t with you! Pumping for your baby is such a gift, but can also be a lot of work! Learn all about milk expression techniques, using your breast pump, bottle feeding, and keeping everything clean!
This workshop is 3 hours long and offered bi-monthly.
Included with Total Class Access, $99 for community members
The Birth Partner’s Workshop
This workshop is designed specifically for birth partners. It can be stressful being someone’s person, so we’re here to demystify everything and help you to make and have a plan for the big day. Learn practical skills and information from an experienced doula and HER birth partner!
This workshop is 3 hours long and offered bi-monthly.
Included with Total Class Access, $99 for community members
The Ultimate VBAC Workshop
Vaginal birth after cesarean is an amazing undertaking. Let us help you prepare both mentally and physically for an amazing VBAC experience. Let’s talk reasons for primary cesareans, how you can set yourself up for a successful VBAC, and what the statistics say about risks and benefits for a trial of labor after a cesarean. Your body isn’t broken. We want to help you have a beautiful birth that is supported, informed, and prepared.
This workshop is 3 hours long and offered quarterly.
Included with Total Class Access and for all clients planning their primary VBAC, $99 for community members
Hypnobabes: Hypnosis and Meditation for Childbirth
Our Hypnobabes Childbirth Education add-on will teach you all about self hypnosis and how it can get you from baby to postpartum with calm, confidence, and strength. Inspired by techniques used by many families, our Hypnobabes class focuses on adding more tools to your toolbox to help you have an empowered and peaceful birth experience. Use hypnotic anchors, meditations and affirmations to empower your body and brain for a peaceful birth.
This series is 5 1-hour classes. This class is currently on hiatus, and will resume early Fall.
Included with Total Class Access, $145 for community members
Evidence Based Birth® Hybrid Classes
The EBB Childbirth Class is a fully virtual class option for those whom traveling to classes is more difficult! Taught by Little Blooming Warriors Collective doula Sesch Wren, this class is a beautiful mix of professionally recorded videos and live zoom meetings with your Instructor. Once registered, students have access to a student portal. Each week, you will log into this portal and view the assigned videos before coming to class. Then you and your fellow classmates will join Sesch in the zoom classroom for the live portion of the class. The time spent over zoom is dynamic. It’s a space where you will learn fresh information, but there is also lots of room for you to pick Sesch’s brain. Come to class with all of your questions!
This class is 6 weeks long and offered quarterly.
Included with Total Class Access, $400 for community members
Get in Touch
I would love to set up a time to connect with you over the phone, and to meet face to face, whether that’s virtually or in person. Please feel free to text, call, or email!
Email
madeline.schulle@gmail.com
Phone
+1 (719) 433-2433