Birthsmarter Postpartum Education Series: The Postpartum Planning Class (Virtual)
Labor is temporary. Postpartum is Forever.
The Postpartum Planning Class is part of a 3-Class Postpartum Education Series: The Newborn Care Class, The Postpartum Planning Class (Virtual), and The Lactation Class.
Register HERE for the individual Postpartum Planning class!
$45
Thursday, January 30: 6:30-9:30pm (VIRTUAL)
Thursday, March 6: 6:30-9:30pm (VIRTUAL)
Click HERE for the Postpartum Education Bundle of 3 classes!
$395
The Newborn Care Class: Monday, January 13: 6:30-9:30pm
The Lactation Class: Saturday, January 25: 1:00-3:30pm
The Postpartum Planning Class: Thursday, January 30: 6:30-9:30pm (VIRTUAL)
The Newborn Care Class: Monday, March 17: 6:30-9:30pm
The Lactation Class: Saturday, March 22: 1:00-3:30pm
The Postpartum Planning Class: Thursday, March 6: 6:30-9:30pm (VIRTUAL)
The Newborn Care Class: Monday, May 5: 6:30-9:30pm
The Lactation Class: Saturday, May 10: 1:00-3:30pm
The Postpartum Planning Class: Thursday, May 15: 6:30-9:30pm (VIRTUAL)
About the Class:
Too many people prepare for the birth itself or life with a newborn but don’t think to plan about the postpartum experience for the adults at home. In order to encourage a seamless physical recovery, decrease your likelihood of postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and increase family bonding we encourage you to join us for this 2-Hour class and talk through the moving parts of postpartum life _before_ you give birth! You’ll walk away with strategies for maintaining a healthy relationship with your newborn as well as your partner.
What’s Covered
- The Body After Birth, including big picture Healing + Hormones, Movement, Fitness, and Physical Therapy
- Emotional Wellness, including Mental Health, Self Care, and Community Support
- Postpartum Nutrition, and meal preparation
- Sleep For The Whole Family, myths versus tips
- Postpartum Planning, how to plan on, ask for, and accept help including the differences between a postpartum doula and a baby nurse, and anyone else you might want in your circle of support.
- Essential products and resources for self-care
What’s Included
- 📓 Custom 20-page workbook
- 💡Access to Birthsmarter's curated pregnancy and parenting resources page
- 🔑 Exclusive partner perks and discounts
- 💬 Weekly office hours and access to Birthsmarter educators
- 💛 Unbiased, non-judgmental, presentation of options
- 🌈 Inclusive Language
While great as a standalone class, we love to bundle with The Lactation Class and Newborn Care for a comprehensive education! Book all three classes in one transaction for 10% off with the code BUNDLE. All classes include you + your support team.
Our goal is to lay a strong foundation and give you the resources you’ll need for navigating the seemingly uncharted territory that lies ahead! Partners are strongly encouraged to attend.
About Us:
Birthsmarter lives in the space where biology meets society, wisdom meets data, and empathy meets activism.
Our Birth Story
When our founder, Ashley Brichter, gave birth for the first time in 2014, she had experience with hundreds of families as a doula and birth educator. She already knew everything traditional birth classes were teaching. She felt like she'd done everything right. Then — like so many — her birth did not “go as planned.” Ashley went back to the drawing board. She questioned everything she learned becoming a doula, a childbirth educator, and a parent herself.
Birthsmarter is the result.
Birthsmarter was born with a single monthly birth class in Brooklyn, NY in mid-2019 and has grown into a virtual platform reaching families all over the country. In a world where it can be difficult to keep sight of what is truly important, Birthsmarter is here to model critical, creative, and compassionate thinking, to help you develop a framework for interpreting “expert” advice, and to support you while navigating a system that is built on binary thinking.
Our Core Values
We pride ourselves in being the most unbiased, inclusive, and accessible pregnancy and parenting community in the United States. We consider the following principles in everything we do.
🍼 Being Unbiased
means that we know there is no hierarchy of birth outcomes or parenting choices. That means we do not promote unmedicated births over medicated births or sleep-training over bed-sharing. At Birthsmarter, we believe that families should have the highest quality of education and support to meet them where they are. This means we do not give blanket advice or tell people what to do. We do not make assumptions or lecture on best practices. We share evidence-based resources, community anecdotes, and personal experience while recognizing that one size will never fit all! We want to make sure people feel seen, heard, and supported - NEVER pressured or shamed.
🌈 Being Inclusive
means welcoming all individuals and family structures while recognizing that Black, brown, Queer, fat, disabled, and financially limited individuals and families 1. exist and 2. might have unique needs. As one example of our inclusivity efforts, we default to neutral terms such as “pregnant people” or “partners” instead of leaning on gendered terms like “mama.” We recognize racism and implicit bias in the birth community and work to unpack our own biases and limitations as leaders in the field.
💛 Being Accessible
means meeting people where they are! We offer an alternative pricing policy to make sure every family can access Birthsmarter regardless of their economic status; provide closed captioning in virtual classes; offer classes in multiple formats; and have designed a curriculum with an eye for different learning styles.
Questions?
Check out the FAQs, or read more to see if you even need childbirth ed or what makes Birthsmarter different. Still have questions? Send us a text (801 200 3228) or an email (harmony@birthsmarter.com) and we'll talk you through it.
