LovingBirths
Collective
Where a Well-Prepared Birth Begins
Helping you prepare for a healthy, confident, and joyful birth.
Childbirth Preparation • Pregnancy Nutrition • Local Resources + Community
At LovingBirths Collective, we believe you were beautifully designed for birth. Through comprehensive childbirth education, pregnancy and lactation specific nutrition, and a growing community of resources, we help women and families prepare for a healthy, confident, and joyful birth experience. Whether you’re planning a home, birth center, or hospital birth, our approach supports those seeking a physiological, low-intervention birth in any setting.
The Support You’ve Been Looking For
“Your birth experience matters. How you experience this moment can stay with you long after your baby is in your arms.”
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A Well-Prepared Birth
LovingBirths Childbirth Education Classes
Women sense there is supposed to be something deeply beautiful about birth, and with thoughtful, comprehensive preparation, you are far more likely to encounter the joy and empowerment it can hold. Birth is an incredibly powerful experience, one that can leave you with a deeper understanding of your own strength and capability. Preparing well helps you enter that moment with knowledge, confidence, and trust in what your body was designed to do. Birth is both a journey and a destination. These are moments you may carry with you for the rest of your life, moments of connection with your baby, with your own strength as a woman, and with the people who love and support you through it.
Because birth does not always follow a predictable path, being well prepared also means understanding your options, knowing how to make informed decisions, and feeling equipped to navigate changes without losing confidence in yourself or your birth.
For those hoping to experience a physiological birth with as little unnecessary intervention as possible, this kind of preparation becomes especially important.
After over a decade of teaching childbirth preparation, I still consider it a privilege to help women discover just how capable they are. My greatest compliment is not, “I couldn’t have done it without you.” It’s, “I knew I could do it. I just needed your support.”
LovingBirths Builds Your Preparation Around Four Essential Pillars
Become Confident in the Design
Develop a clear understanding of how the body is designed to work during labor and birth, allowing trust to replace fear.
One of the most powerful forms of preparation is understanding the natural design of the birth process. In class, we explore how hormones, environment, and support work together during labor and how these elements influence the experience of birth.
Work With Your Body in Labor
Learn practical techniques that support the natural processes of labor, helping to reduce unnecessary discomfort and encourage effective, efficient progress.
Birth becomes more manageable when families learn how to work with the body rather than against it. In class, you’ll be introduced to practical comfort techniques, helpful positions, and supportive strategies that encourage the natural progress of labor.
These tools help couples approach labor as an active process—one where both partners can participate in meaningful and supportive ways.
Learn and Practice Deep Relaxation
Practice the deep relaxation skills that support a peaceful birth, helping maintain both physical comfort and emotional steadiness throughout labor.
Relaxation is not simply a suggestion for birth—it is a skill that can be learned and practiced. LovingBirths classes introduce techniques that help mothers release tension and conserve energy during labor.
Through guided practice, you learn relaxation methods that support comfort, focus, and steady breathing as labor unfolds.
Prepare Your Birth Partner and Advocate
Equip your partner or support person to be an active, confident presence—prepared to assist you through each stage of labor, help create a calm and loving birth environment, and advocate for you during moments of decision as you move through birth together.
Birth partners play a vital role in the birth experience. In LovingBirths classes, partners learn how to provide meaningful physical, emotional, and practical support throughout each stage of labor.
They leave with a clear understanding of how to support the laboring mother and help create a calm, connected birth environment.
Private Classes and Group Setting Classes
How perfectly designed your body is for labor and birth
How to avoid unnecessary pain and interventions and minimize the risks of common interventions if they become necessary
How to process and work with labor sensations
How to make labor more efficient and decrease failure to progress interventions that can lead to cesarean
Utilize positions for progress and for comfort
Mindset guidance and addressing the fear-tension-pain cycle and it’s physiological impact on labor
Have a prepared partner that can adjust to the changing needs and challenges as labor naturally evolves
Rehearsal of deep relaxation skills that are need to release and stay soft under pressure
And more.
Both class formats include the same comprehensive education. Below are listed some of the features of a LovingBirths Class.
“My nurses wouldn’t stop talking about how impressed they were with my birth and calm throughout, ..”
Private Classes
Six hours of private instruction, scheduled as two 3-hour sessions, can be scheduled apart or consecutively.
Held in a comfortable, private setting designed to support relaxed learning.
Interactive and discussion-based, with time for questions and personalized instruction.
Guided practice of comfort techniques, deep relaxation skills, and birth position preparation The amount of time dedicated to ‘rehearsing birthing’ sets this class apart.
Birth partners are a laboring woman’s support and advocate, their preparation is essential and an integral component throughout the class.
You’ll receive a 50 page workbook at your first session to guide your learning in class and support continued practice at home.
Group Setting
Six hours instruction. All the same content and relaxation practice but in a one day intensive group setting at a lower cost.
Free video access to a 40 minute breastfeeding introductory instructional class by Thrive Lactation Center (valued at $100).
30 minute break for lunch with a mini instructional presentation by a local provider that adds real value to your birth and postpartum experience. Trusted provider series vary by group class selection but can include one of these guest speakers:
Pelvic Therapy Specialist
Lactation Consultant
Perinatal Mental Health Provider
Prenatal Certified Chiropractor
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Guided practice of comfort techniques, deep relaxation skills, and birth position preparation and practice. The amount of time dedicated to ‘rehearsing birthing’ sets this class apart. You want these skills to be second nature and that comes with practice.
Birth partners are a laboring woman’s support and advocate, their preparation is essential and an integral component throughout the class.
You’ll receive a 50 page workbook (included in the class cost) to guide your learning in class and support continued practice at home.
Group Class Schedule (Currently being updated with 5 new options)
What families and providers are saying
We believe that healthy pregnancies are built from the inside out.
That’s why LovingBirths offers nutrition education that complements our comprehensive childbirth classes.
Pregnancy Nutrition and Wellness
LovingBirths Nutritional Classes
With in-depth knowledge of the unique needs and challenges of pregnancy and postpartum, we help you understand how optimizing maternal wellness supports strength, resilience, and overall well-being during this important season. Our mindset is that evidence-based education will aid in preventing nutritional deficiencies and reducing stress, thus setting mother and baby up for a healthy delivery and post-birth recovery.
