“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
Barbara Katz Rothman

Holistic Childbirth Preparation Workshops allow women and their partners step into birth and new parenthood as informed participants and protectors of their soon-to-be born child. In addition to the physiology and emotional terrain of labor, the workshops are designed to allow participants to intimately explore beliefs around birth, partnership and their new role as parents. I am excited to work with all families and all of the ways they choose to labor and create family, including home birth, hypnobirthing families, adoption births, women of any relationship status, religion, race, age, gender and sexual orientation. My classes are enjoyed by women and partners looking to explore intimacy, initiation, and personal advocacy through the lens of the birth experience. 

I provide up-to-date information and insights into birth research, support measures, community resources, communicating collaboratively with your providers, and all the powerful dynamics parents face as their children enter this world. I serve women and families in Marin County and Sonoma County including Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Sebastopol, Occidental, Graton, Freestone and the Russian River Corridor. 

Childbirth education should be woman-centered, objective, and seek to empower the mother, partner and baby. This prenatal preparation should include the emotional and physiological terrain of labor, exploring deeply held or yet to be formed beliefs about birth, physical support measures, and what the mother and partner may encounter at home or in the hospital. 
By looking at the emotional connection between mother and partner, mother and baby, and mostly, the connection the mother has to herself, these workshops build upon the strengths that women already have within them to birth their children gently into this world.