Why You Need a Parent-Centered Pregnancy Class

This is the class I wish I’d had when I was pregnant…

When I was pregnant (and maybe a little anxious about the impending most significant change in my life thing) I responded to this stress with my coping tactic of reading and research. My husband would say "Another pregnancy book?" whenever another one would appear. 

I thought maybe, if I just knew enough facts, I could feel prepared. I thought maybe, if I could anticipate every possible thing that might go wrong, I could come up with a game plan. 

Then I had the actual, real-life baby. With his own urgent needs and preferences that he was demanding I respond to right now. And the challenges we faced were completely different ones that I had worried and read about. 

While I looked and looked for someone else to have the right answer, what I really needed was to know and trust that I already had what I needed inside. What my son needed was me. Wow, that realization was a trip.

Luckily, I had some tools to cling to as my life raft - I was fortunate that I'd already studied the Alexander Technique, and I used those skills again and again to calm myself as I soothed the baby, to help me a bit rest even when he wouldn't, and to value myself during that vulnerable postpartum time when everything became all about the baby. 

If you've been looking for a class that will give you skills to ride the waves of uncertainty and change, wherever your story takes you, in a supportive, come-as-you-are format, please join me in January! 

Skills to support your ongoing well-being as a parent: relieve aches and pains, minimize responses to stress, unwind and sleep better.

Price is per screen, so attend with a partner at no additional charge.

Very special guest presentation by Hannah Lee, LSW on stress vs. perinatal/ postpartum mood disorders and when to seek additional support for your mental health (with your questions answered!)

7:30pm CST, Tuesdays, 1/18 - 2/22
6 classes of 75 mins instruction

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