Getting Ready for Baby Workshop

035_14With Barbara Robertson, MA, IBCLC

We can guide you through your choices, share strategies, and teach you the skills necessary to enjoy breastfeeding and caring for your newborn baby. See below for a list of topics covered.

2015 Schedule & Fees

Take the full-day workshop or your choice of Breastfeeding Basics or Newborn Care Basics half-day classes.

Getting Ready for Baby Workshop (Full-Day $95 per couple)
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Breastfeeding Basics ($55 per couple)
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Newborn Care Basics ($55 per couple)
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“I just wanted to thank you again for your classes. They were spectacular! I learned so much! You were very easy to listen to and kept everyone involved which in my opinion helps people learn more. I didn’t feel like I was in a class being lectured to. That is so important to me.” — Faredae Miller, Pinckney, MI

“Excellent course! Very informative and great hands-on time for the new parent.” — James Keating, Ann Arbor, MI”

Breastfeeding Basics

9:30am-12:30pm

  • Needs of the newborn
  • Importance of skin to skin contact
  • Reading your baby’s hunger cues
  • How often and how long to nurse
  • Latch and positioning
  • How to know baby is getting enough
  • Back-to-work planning
  • Pumps and equipment
  • When to seek help

Lunch (12:30-1:30pm)*

Newborn Care Basics

1:30-4:30pm

Hands-on training in:

  • Diapering options and how to
  • Techniques to calm a newborn
  • Baby wearing safety and how to
  • Car seat safety
  • Giving baby a bath (demo)
  • Understanding and appreciating your baby ~ The Amazing Newborn DVD

Postpartum Emotions & Adjustment StrategiesGetting Ready for Baby ~ Deluxe Package

2015 Schedule & Fees

Getting Ready for Baby Deluxe Package ($125 per couple)
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Our Deluxe Package includes the full-day workshop plus access to four online classes to supplement material presented in class:

  • Medical Procedures with the Newborn (Part 3 of our Navigating the Medical Setting class, focuses on informed decision making regarding immediate post-birth care of the newborn. Includes discussions on pros and cons of delayed cord cutting, Vitamin K injection, circumcision, Hepatitis B vaccine, and more.)**
  • Breastfeeding Basics (Pretty much an overlap of what will be presented in class, but allows you to review information when you need it. )
  • Caring for Your Newborn (Includes information on newborn appearance, newborn reflexes, cord care, newborn jaundice, and more.)**
  • Postpartum Emotions & Adjustment Strategies (Differentiate between normal “baby blues” and postpartum depression, and learn a variety of coping strategies to help ease the transition into parenting.)

* Lunch is not included. You can go out for lunch (we are 1 mile west of downtown Ann Arbor) or bring your lunch with you and relax at the Center (we have a refrigerator and microwave available, and outdoor patio seating when the weather is nice).

** This material is presented in our Giving Birth & Caring for Your Newborn six-week childbirth preparation class. You really don’t need the Deluxe Package if you have taken the six-week childbirth preparation class, Giving Birth & Caring for Your Newborn.