At Carriage House Birth, we have gathered our shared birth and postpartum experiences and training to develop a strong, interesting, and fun classroom experience. We believe that it is best to fill your perinatal tool bag with as many options as possible, therefore we teach what is most useful and use what we feel are the best elements from the various laboring and healing methods that are out there today. Whether at home, in a hospital, or a birth center, we believe that good outcomes happen when fear is replaced by confidence and understanding of the gestational body and the very normal experience that is pregnancy, childbirth and the early postpartum period.
The Carriage House Birth Weekend Class is a six-hour, one weekend (Saturday & Sunday) commitment.
Class covers but is not limited to:
Anatomy & Physiology of Pregnancy and Birth
Physical & Emotional Stages of Pregnancy
Physical & Emotional Stages of Labor
Pain Coping Techniques
Birth Preferences (formerly known as the birth plan)
Pain Management Options & Hands-on Practice
Labor Support Team
Interventions & Inductions
Cesarean Birth
Your Postpartum Body, Mind & Life
Please note the class fee covers attendance for two people.
Refund requests will be granted up to two weeks prior to the class start date minus a $50 administration fee. Registrants who deliver prior to the scheduled class(es) will be issued a Full Refund.
About your educator:
Sophia is a Black, first generation Haitian-American and ethnically Cuban, Full Spectrum: birth, postpartum, holistic fertility doula and educator in New York City. Additionally, Sophia is a Newborn Care Specialist and after earning a Masters degree in Public Health from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, she became a Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist. Sophia is extremely passionate about reproductive justice and breaking down the barriers and challenges in maternal care, particularly for Black birthing bodies. Sophia’s mission in birth work is to promote personalized care. She believes childbirth education, continuous pregnancy and labor support and immediate postpartum care are necessary to improve birth outcomes. She is the founder of LunarLight Birth Services and Beyond, LLC and offers both in person and virtual services. From the young age of 7 or 8, Sophia was called to this work. Drawn to her grandmother’s teachings, she immediately appreciated not only the science involved but also how deeply ancestral birthwork is as well. Guiding families through their reproductive journey and beyond truly feeds Sophia’s soul. When she is not supporting a birth, teaching, providing postpartum and/or child care, Sophia enjoys planting, traveling, listening to music and spending quality time with loved ones.
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