Grounded in Birth: A Childbirth Education Series for BIPOC Birthing People

Sessions are drop in: please feel free to join us for any sessions you like!

Update: we've changed the partner policy for this series; partners are now allowed to join the series! Feel free to bring your partner!

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) birthing people are invited to join us for a 9-week in person childbirth education workshop series, meeting at the West Berkeley Family Wellness Center. Over 9 sessions participants will:

• Explore their needs and desires around labor
• Learn about the process of labor, pain management techniques, comfort measures, common interventions
• Learn and practice advocacy skills
• Learn and practice grounding and regulation skills
• Build their personalized birth plan
• Receive items that will support the labor and birth journey
• Build a supportive community space with other pregnant folks

All BIPOC pregnant folks are invited to join us. Being gestational age 28 weeks or less is recommended, but BIPOC pregnant people of all gestational ages are welcome. Participants are welcome to join as many sessions as they would like; folks who would like to attend all 9 are welcome as well as folks who only want to come to 1 or 2 sessions (some informational is sequential so we encourage repeated attendance but that is not required).

Gift baskets with support items and educationl materials are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Date + Time: 9 Thursdays: September 10th - November 5th, 4pm-6pm

Location: West Berkeley Family Wellness Center

Session Topics:

Session 1 (9/10): Orientation + Exploring Birth Context

Session 2 (9/17): An Introduction to Advocacy

Session 3 (9/24): Anatomy + The Stages of Labor

Session 4 (10/1): The Stages of Labor, Continued

Session 5 (10/8): Comfort Measures

Session 6 (10/15): Interventions + Pain Management

Session 7 (10/22): Birth Planning

Session 8 (10/29): Postpartum + Support Network Planning

Session 9 (11/5): Series Closeout

Please note that this series is offered exclusively for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) people; we request that white people please refrain from registering.

This series is led by Now You Know a Doula in partnership with the City of Berkeley.