COMFORT MEASURES FOR PREGNANCY, LABOR AND BIRTH

Time to build confidence and increase mobility as you prepare for birth!

Our class instructors are birth doulas and educators that will teach you how to use various props including a birth/yoga ball, bolsters, pillows, chairs, and more. BBC will provide the materials and props needed to use during class and send you home with a packet of information so that you can leave feeling prepared and empowered to navigate your birth.

We encourage you to wear comfortable clothes you can move in and bring a water bottle with you if you like.

Find a Class

This 90 minute in-person class takes place from 1 - 2:30 PM. Choose the date that works for you:

Sunday, February 23, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025

CLASS FEE
$75 per family

In Comfort Measures you will learn:

Movements and habits you can incorporate into your daily or weekly routines during pregnancy to stay comfortable and also help prepare your body for labor.
Things you can do as your due date nears or if you’re facing an impending induction.
Comfort measures and hands on practice with positions to help you and your partner feel more prepared for the various phases and stages of labor and birth.
How to use breathing techniques, movement, touch and connection to help you manage and cope with the intensity of labor.

Mental and emotional preparation techniques.
Tools and skills that can be helpful to both you and your partner whether you are planning an unmedicated or medicated birth.
How to create a positive, calm and comforting birth environment.
Special considerations for induction, epidural and prodromal labor.
Answers to your questions and concerns.

Comfort Measures Instructors:

Alison Spath, IBCLC, Body Ready Method Pro, CD(DONA)

Alison cares deeply about the importance of personal and informed decision-making and aims to provide her clients with evidence-based information in all things related to pregnancy, birth, feeding and early parenthood. Alison’s own birth and breastfeeding experiences along with her work with hundreds of families over the years has taught her that there are often unpredictable bumps and turns on this journey. What’s most important to her is that you were informed of your options and feel supported, heard and respected throughout all the many decisions you will make during this time in your life.

At BBC, Alison teaches our Intro to Breastfeeding class for expecting parents, facilitates our weekly breastfeeding support group Breastfeeding Cafe, offers private in home (or at BBC) lactation consults and manages our yoga studio. Alison is currently accepting lactation clients and accepts birth doula clients on a limited basis.

Kirsten Etling, CD(DONA), LCCE, CLEC, CLC, SBD, CVD(TVL), Body Ready Method Pro

Kirsten has been supporting families during their entire journey through pregnancy, labor, and delivery since 2003. Believing that birthing people are powerful when they understand their own innate ability to give birth, and that pregnancy and birth are NORMAL. Because she is constantly researching and educating herself on all things pregnancy and birth related, she provides evidence-based, factual information and continuous emotional and physical support. Kirsten aims to guide families in making informed choices and decisions during pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and early postpartum. Kirsten teaches Childbirth Education and Comfort Measures classes, she is also a Lactation Counselor and Stillbirth and Bereavement Doula.