Newborn Care 101

 

Class description:

Join Midwife Rebecca Plum and learn how to care for your newborn from those very first moments after birth, so that you can enter this new phase of your life confident and ready to begin!

 

An experiential class, each member in our intimate group setting will receive personalized instruction and hands-on training in how to care for their new baby. Members will leave feeling more familiar with newborn qualities and behaviors, and ready to tailor their new-found skills to their own newborn’s unique needs.

If the birthing parent is partnered, both parents are strongly encouraged to attend.

In this class you will learn:

• Interpreting baby’s cues
• Cord care & newborn health
• Newborn appearance & traits
• Sleep patterns & what to expect
• The developmental stages of the newborn
• Jaundice and other common newborn conditions
• When to feed the baby & how to know they’re getting enough
• What to expect and choices to consider for immediately after the birth

 

Participants will receive hands-on instruction in:

• Diapering (cloth, compostable & disposable)
• Swaddling
• Soothing
• Burping
• Holding baby & transferring them person to person

Please Note:

This class is our Newborn Care Intensive, which contains a very full 3 hours of material. If you are excited to learn as much as you can about newborn care, including how to bathe the baby, trim their nails, what clothing to bring them home in and how to set up the nursery, please check out our new Expanded Newborn Care class!

Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm

When: February 10th, 2014

Cost: $150 for single or couple (if registering as a couple, please enter partner’s name at checkout)

www.carmelblue.com

 

Address:

Carmel Blue Pregnancy & Parenting

1418 Grant Ave

San Francisco, CA

94133
 USA