The After Birth Care Workshop

A one-day postpartum and parenthood preparation class designed to give parents the skills, mindset, and confidence to take care of their newborn and also themselves.

Now offered as Face-to-Face workshops! **Private Online Workshops are available upon request.

We’ll help you discover a variety of ways to know more about your little one and how to meet your baby’s physical, emotional, and developmental needs while remaining calm in doing so. Its goal is to guide you in your transition from pregnancy to parenthood and teach you how to thrive rather than simply survive early parenthood. The class will explain why baby care starts with self-care, and with the essential information about postpartum recovery, we will help you realize how a mother can flourish after birth rather than deplete.

The After Birth Care Workshop is a hands-on class and it will help build your confidence and readiness to meet your little one. It will also help you to trust your parenting instincts and delve deeper into the first few months of your baby’s life. Lastly, it will cover the specific role of the father or co-parent and how they can be involved and care for the baby.

We highly recommend it to expectant parents who are at their third trimester of the pregnancy and we encourage the expectant mom to attend together with her partner (husband, friend, or relative). This is so you will be immediately ready once you have given birth to your newborn.

 
 

Objectives

  • To help new parents have a realistic view of their postpartum period, get support after birth, and be guided on how to care for both the new mother and her newborn

  • To impart basic skills and information that are necessary for new parents to ease their transition into parenthood so they will thrive, rather than simply survive, early parenthood

  • To help the mother and father create a positive and beautiful beginning for their new family

Benefits

  1. Educate you as new parents on what to expect after the birth of your baby;

  2. Provide you practical information to ease your postpartum adjustment;

  3. Allow you to get hands-on learning on baby care which can increase your confidence in caring for your baby;

  4. Help you to stay calm while encountering the various challenges in having a baby;

  5. Build the mother’s confidence in her body’s ability to nourish her baby; and

  6. Establish teamwork between the new parents and help nurture your baby.

 

Outline

  1. Guiding Principles for Life After Birth

  2. Caring for the Mother after a Vaginal or Cesarian Birth

    1. Physical, Emotional, and Mental Challenges After the Birth

    2. Self-Care After Birth

  3. Adapting to Postpartum Life as New Parents: Physical, Emotional, and Mental Challenges After Birth

  4. Caring for Your Newborn Baby

    • Meeting Your Baby

    • Diapering

    • Umbilical Cord Care

    • Circumcision Care

    • Vaccines

    • Bathing and Physical Care

    • Infant Massage

    • Newborn Sleeping and Waking Patterns

    • Tummy Time

    • Jaundice

    • Techniques to Calm a Crying Newborn (5 S’s – Happiest Baby on the Block)

    • Your Baby’s Communication

  5. Breastfeeding & Bottle-Feeding Basics

  6. Instinctive and Empowered Parenting

  7. Areas Where Fathers and Co-Parents Can Help

  8. The Postpartum Plan

  9. Resources for Support in Postpartum

Testimonials

“We attended the online Birth Basics and After Birth Care workshops with Doula Betty and Sir Manny. We learned so much from them. It made my husband more involved in our pregnancy. After the classes, we initially thought of not getting the doula services on the actual birth. But when I began to feel the surges, my husband suddenly decided to call Tita Betty. Even though I have the midwives and my husband with me, it is really something that I also have a doula with us. Tita Betty knew how to make me calm and confident at the same time, while I was laboring. She definitely took care of us! Until now, she still assists us with tips and good advice for our baby. Having her on our birth team is one of the best decisions we made for the birth of our daughter. Thank you, Tita Betty!” - R. Carale

“The Birth Basics & After Birth classes of Doula Betty and her husband, Tito Manny, are blessings to parents and parents-to-be! I cannot imagine our pregnancy journey without having taken these classes. Their language and method are truly inspiring and empowering and the content of the class not only gives you courage & confidence but also comfort and peace. I recommend it to new parents and parents who want to see birth in a new light and shed fears and biases about birth that are sometimes pre-conditioned in our minds. As my husband and I wait to welcome our first baby, we find ourselves truly excited because we know that we are equipped and prepared — more importantly, guided and helped by the best people in our care team led by Doula Betty.” - B. Garcia-Choy

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