Prenatal to Postpartum Classes (week 3 - Postpartum)
Sat, Sep 21
|Family Connections Program
Week 3/4 of our Prenatal to Postpartum Classes. This class is designed to help you prepare for postpartum healing, understanding your new baby, and resources available in the North!
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2024, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. MDT
Family Connections Program, 4817 49 St, Yellowknife, NT X1A 3S7, Canada
Guests
About the event
Join us for our prenatal to postpartum classes! Our program is a 4-week cohort that includes prenatal, birth, and postpartum topics. That also include a feature class at the end of the cohort that dives deeper into crucial topics that will help you along your reproductive journey.
Our goal is to help you gain confidence, understand your body and learn how to advocate for yourself. We hope our classes are accessible for families and provide a safe space to ask questions. Everyone has different experiences; we wish to honour that in our groups.
We plan to have eight pregnant folks join us! You're encouraged to bring a support partner, whether a spouse, family member, or friend.
* Please note that our goal is to have these classes run every 4 months. If you are unable to attend these times, hopfully we can catch you in the next cohort. With the expection of the feature class that changes each cohort.
September 7,2024 - Week 1 Session 1: Prenatal Class
Topics Include:
1. Trimesters-what to expect with body changes and growth of baby.
2.Mental health/ self advocacy- Guidance on advocating and supporting yourself throughout pregnancy, labour, birth , and postpartum.
3. Basics on Anatomy and physiology of birth; demonstrating how the pelvis works during labour and birth.
4. How to Prepare for labour and birth.
September 14,2024- Week 2 Session 2: Labour to Birth Class
Topics include:
1. Labour
2.Positioning during labour and why it’s important.
3.Ways partners can support during labour.
4.What to expect during labour from the hospital: monitorin
g, tub/shower?, Moving around, eating, and types medications and interventions.
**September 21,2024- Week 3 Session 3: Postpartum
Topics Include:
1. What happens now that the baby is born? (hospital procedures/checks)
2. How to hold my baby, breastfeeding, picking up your baby, diapering your baby.)
3. Caring for your body postpartum
4. Self care resources and tips
September 28- Week 4 Session 4 : Feature Class with Rachel Macneill - Certified Infant Feeding Specialist
Topics Included:
1. breast/chest feeding
2. Pumping
3. storing your milk
4.colostrum collection