CHILDBIRTH CLASSES

Our superior classes are designed to meet the learning needs of adults and are full of interactive learning and connection activities, videos, in-depth and detailed information that you won’t find anywhere else!

We know you want to become an amazing parent. And we’re here to help you navigate your last weeks carrying your child while preparing for your birth and the postpartum time with confidence and courage. From understanding your pregnant body and helping to get baby in an optimal position, to understanding every phase of labor and how to cope with each stage, to breastfeeding and infant needs & cues, we got you. This is our most comprehensive childbirth class yet.

In our childbirth series you’ll learn:

• Body literacy and how this baby knows how to get into your arms!
• Labor stages and signs of labor so you feel confident in laboring at home for a period of time.
• Tools to create a positive, satisfying birth experience no matter how you give birth.
• Skills to increase connection with your partner, care provider and your baby!
• Mental and breathing strategies for coping through labor.
• Hands-on support techniques for birth partners.
• Understanding transport situations and cultivating tools to feel safe and strong throughout.
• Medical technologies/interventions, advocacy, evidence based practices, unbiased information and how to make informed decisions.
• How to address and work with fears and anxieties.
• How to honor your pregnancy and birth as a rite of passage

Our series are designed to be taken when you are between 23-36 weeks pregnant. Each series begins on the start date listed at registration and runs for consecutive weeks unless otherwise noted.

All classes will be held in the Homegrown Families Health & Education Center at 201 Charlotte Street, Asheville NC 28801

At Homegrown Families we do not have an opinion or judgement on how you are planning to give birth or parent your child. All of our classes are inclusive and everyone is welcome no matter ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation. Through this diversity, we drive connection.

Prices: We continue to use our community care model to deconstruct the systems of white supremacy and racism within health care, creating opportunities for equitable access to education.

• Supporter Rate: $325
• Sustainer Rate: $275 
• Community Rate $200 
• Equity Seat $0 

For those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color, or would like a community discounted rate, please email info@ashevillehomegrownfamilies.com for coupon code and space availability. 

Because our classes often sell out, we do not offer refunds or transfers for non-medical reasons, so please be sure you can attend the class you register for! If you choose to register for class beginning after your 34th week, there are no refunds if your baby arrives before the series is over. We continue to use our community care model to deconstruct the systems of white supremacy and racism within health care, creating opportunities for equitable access to education, this refund policy goes to eliminating barriers to childbirth education.

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Birth With Courage is offered every month. Choose the format that works for you!

Three Week Series
Sundays 2pm to 5pm
Available every month

Four Week Series
Wednesdays 6pm to 8pm
Available every other month

One Day Deep Dive
Saturdays 10am to 2pm
Available monthly

Spinning Babies Birth Preparation
Thursdays 6pm-8pm
Available monthly

Birth With Courage vs. Spinning Babies Birth Prep

Which class is right for you?

Both of our classes are designed to help you feel more confident and prepared for birth, but they have different focuses. And there is no “right” way to choose. You can take one, take both, or choose the class that feels most useful to you.

Birth With Courage

Birth With Courage is our comprehensive childbirth education class.

This class focuses on understanding the whole birth experience so you can make informed decisions and feel prepared for whatever your birth looks like.

You will learn about:

✨ How labor works and what to expect
✨ Comfort measures and coping techniques
✨ Birth positions and movement
✨ Medical interventions and pain management
✨ Epidurals and cesarean birth
✨ Communicating with your birth team
✨ Informed consent and advocacy
✨ Partner support
✨ Creating a flexible birth plan
✨ Preparing emotionally for birth
✨ What happens after your baby arrives

Our goal is not to tell you how you should give birth. It is to give you information, tools, and confidence so you can make the decisions that are right for you and your family.

Think of Birth With Courage as your childbirth education foundation.

Spinning Babies Birth Prep

Spinning Babies Birth Prep focuses specifically on physical preparation for birth.

You will learn hands on techniques and activities designed to support comfort, balance, mobility, and your baby’s positioning as you prepare for labor.

You will learn:

✨ Pregnancy positions and movements
✨ Balance focused activities
✨ Partner supported techniques
✨ Ways to support comfort during pregnancy
✨ Techniques to help prepare your body for birth
✨ Movements that encourage mobility and space

Think of Spinning Babies as the physical preparation piece.

And yes, Spinning Babies can absolutely be enough!

Maybe you already feel really confident about childbirth.

Maybe you’ve taken a childbirth class before.

Maybe you have had a baby already and don’t feel like you need another comprehensive birth education course.

Maybe you simply want to learn some practical, hands on techniques to help prepare your body.

That is completely okay.

You do not need to take Birth With Courage in order for Spinning Babies Birth Prep to be valuable.

Spinning Babies can be an incredibly useful class all on its own. You will walk away with practical techniques you can actually use during pregnancy and practice with your partner.

There is no prize for taking the most classes. 

Choose the education that fills the gap you actually have.

Want the full picture?

Taking both can give you a more well rounded approach:

Birth With Courage
Understand your options and prepare for the emotional, physical, and practical sides of birth.

Spinning Babies Birth Prep
Learn hands on techniques to prepare your body and practice with your partner.

Both together:
🧠 + 🤰 = a more comprehensive approach to birth preparation.

But if Spinning Babies is the class that feels right for you, come join us. You don’t need to do everything to be prepared. You just need the tools that are meaningful and useful to you.