Classes & Resources
These sessions provide a supportive foundation of evidence-based information and support where you can share experiences, ask questions, and receive expert advice, helping you adjust smoothly to life with your new baby.
Making exceptional support available by: Offering sliding fees, accepting payment plans, processing HSA/FSA, and sharing correct documentation for reimbursement w/ TRICARE.
We offer a variety of virtual and in-person classes to meet all of your preparation needs! See our educational opportunities below. Looking for a resource that isn't listed? Message us so we can refer you to our vast network of birth professionals.
Join other expecting families for an engaging fun birth and breastfeeding workshop w/April & Jodi. April is a Certified Professional Midwife and IBCLC Lactation Consultant. Jodi has a PhD in Health Promotion & Education with a special focus on maternal and child health and an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor.
Get hands on practice and education to prepare for your hospital or home birth, discuss the birth process, how partners can best support, navigating the hospital, preparing for postpartum, and infant feeding support.
This class will take place at:
The Well: A Center for Women's Wellness
529 East Stroop Road . Kettering, Ohio 45429
From 9am-1pm
Note that this class is offered quarterly.
Email bwsdoulas@gmail.com for upcoming dates.
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Learn and receive mentorship from Dr. Jodi through the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class! You will get special access to: The four-week Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth class series; 3 months exclusive access to the Evidence Based Birth® Parent Website; Spiral-bound copy of the EBB® Childbirth Class workbook (mailed to your home); Text access to Dr. Jodi for 3 months; BONUS: Optional review and suggestions for your birth plan. Want more information and to learn more about your Instructor? Go to www.docjodi.com
(Virtual Accelerated Evidence Based Birth® 4-Week Classes)
We will meet for 4 classes, virtually by zoom 6-8 pm
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January Series (7, 14, 21, 28)
2 couple spots available, 1 auditor spot
March Series (4, 11, 18, 25)
6 couple spots available, 1 auditor spot
You've heard that breastfeeding is really hard. And usually painful. And you still think you want to try to make it work... but how? How are you supposed to know what is evidence-based information, and what is not?
Well Prepared Breastfeeding Workshop is exactly what you need to feel educated and prepared to feed your new baby. Taught by Midwife and IBCLC Lactation Consultant, April Kline, and Jodi Cunningham, public health practitioner with a PhD in community health, you are in the very best hands to welcome you into this new journey. This 1.5 hour virtual class you'll learn the basics of breastfeeding, how to handle those first few weeks after the arrival of your baby, making milk and maintaining supply, pumping and returning to work and more. Upon purchase, find the class link and note-taking guide sent right to your inbox.
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Free Resources
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How to Encourage Deep Mother/
Baby Bonds in Birth and Postpartum
In this 56-minute online video training, April Kline, Midwife, Lactation Consultant, Emotional Release Therapist, and Intuitive Bodyworker, dives deep into the essential ties that bond mother and baby from conception through pregnancy, birth and on into postpartum.
After viewing this training, you will:
- Understand the importance of undisturbed physiological
processes, particularly hormone production
- How to determine what constitutes an intervention
- How to discern well-bonded versus poorly-bonded
- What is meant by "the energetic body"
- How to work with the energetic body
- Specific tools & techniques that encourage strong bonding
- How to be present and grounded
- Specific interaction protocols that encourage bonding for
both parents and practitioners
