Prepare for your homebirth with confidence and ease
with Tanya Wills, CNM, IBCLC
Manhattan Birth's Ready for Homebirth Class
Our comprehensive homebirth prep classes take place over the course of 3 weeks and happens virtually through live + interactive classes with supplemental video content. Students are provided with a customized class handouts and access to Manhattan Birth’s extensive resource lists which include recommended reading, practitioners, and resources online and around NYC.
Our 3-week homebirth prep class will cover topics including but not limited to:
- Developing a trusting relationship with your midwife throughout pregnancy + postpartum
- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and childbirth
- Signs, Stages and Emotional Signposts of Labor
- Optimal Fetal Positioning
- Pain Management Techniques and comfort measures for birth: hands on techniques for pain reduction (massage), breathing, relaxation, position choices, pressure points and much more
- Choosing your support team for labor and beyond
- Understanding + positively navigating hospital transfer
- Writing a birth plan feels right for your family
- Postpartum Health
- Basically everything you need to navigate your homebirth confidently!
We recommend bringing a support person or partner to our classes. Partners and support people who take our classes are the most tuned in. They are confident, encouraging and PREPARED to really support you through labor. Single and solo parents are always welcome and encouraged to attend Manhattan Birth’s childbirth classes.
We guarantee that you will leave our classes ready for anything that comes your way. You can do this! We know you can!
Price: $395 (includes Lactation + Newborn Care)
2020 Start Dates:
- 3 consecutive Sundays starting December 6th 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. EST.
- ** Lactation + Newborn included on December 13 **
- 3 consecutive Sundays starting January 10th 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. EST.
- ** Lactation + Newborn included on January 10th**
We are committed to being here, available
and reachable every step of the way.
and reachable every step of the way.
Manhattan Birth’s childbirth classes are proud to be one of the most highly regarded in NYC for its thorough, intimate and evidence-based approach.
With over a decade of experience, Tanya Wills, Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner (WHNP-BC) and founder of Manhattan Birth, has created a revolutionary approach to the childbearing year: The Confidence Born System.
The Confidence Born System is a step by step, heartfelt, down to earth method that totally demystifies this chapter of your life - birth and new parenthood.
Follow our recipe and you’ll be ready for anything.
You’ll be more than ready - you’ll own it.
You will confidently navigate your birth. Our students finish class equipped to make informed choices about their care. They manage all possible scenarios in labor, birth and beyond.
No matter how your baby comes into this world, YOU DESERVE a positive, peak life experience.
Our teachers are seasoned birth professionals who have supported hundreds of families through the childbearing year. They are birth and postpartum doulas, IBCLCs, RNs, Midwives and Newborn Care Specialists. Our team is available to answer your questions along the way and ensure that you step into labor, birth and new parenthood with confidence.