Wondering how you’ll get your prenatal classes done?
(we recommend you complete them by 4 to 6 weeks before your due-date)
No problem.
Choose from three formats/schedules.
Same content for all formats.
All classes are ‘live’ and interactive.
Learning happens in your own home.
Have to miss a class? Recordings available, plus a free ‘make-up’ class.
Class reunion (online) to introduce your babies and share birth stories.
Formats and Class dates
Registration
Content
Testimonials
Planning a hospital birth?
Your instructor has attended births in all the hospitals serving:
Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody,
Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows,
Maple Ridge, Mission, Langley and Surrey.
Planning a home-birth?
Your instructor has attended many home-births, and understands the role of your midwives in helping you plan and accomplish that.
Whatever class you choose, we’ll help you…
Understand the process of labour and birth
Share your experience of pregnancy
Recognize inner resources and wisdom you already have
Explore ways of dealing effectively with the pain of labour
Build confidence in your ability to give birth
Make knowledgeable decisions about your medical care during labour
Prepare for breastfeeding and living with your infant
Assume your parenting role with joy and enthusiasm
Formats and Class dates
Check out these formats:
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- Weekly evening series (online)
Seven 2-hour classes, held one evening per week, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Class size limited to 8 couples
Cost: $240.00* per couple (*plus GST)
Spring Series #1: Tuesdays, March 14th through April 25th. * ONLINE *
Spring Series #2: Tuesdays, May 16th through June 27th. * ONLINE *
Summer Series #1: Tuesdays, July 18th through August 29th. * ONLINE *
- Weekly evening series (online)
- Weekend ‘Workshop-PLUS’ (online)
Two consecutive Sundays, from 10:00am to 3:30pm (1-hour lunch break), PLUS the following Monday evening, 6:30 to 8:30pm.
Class size limited to 8 couples
Cost: $230.00* per couple (*plus GST)
Spring Workshop #2: Sundays, May 28th and June 4th PLUS Monday evening June 5th * ONLINE *
Summer Workshop #1: Sundays, July 9th and 16th PLUS Monday evening July 17th * ONLINE *
Summer Workshop #2: Sundays, August 13th and 20th PLUS Monday evening August 21st * ONLINE * - Private Classes
Three 2-1/2-hour classes (online).
Scheduled individually to suit your personal needs.
Cost: $285.00* per couple (*plus GST).
To arrange for dates and times that suit you, call or email soon.
Is the class you want showing as FULL? Contact us anyways to be put on a waitlist, and we will do our best to fit you into a class. If there is enough demand we will schedule an additional Workshop. We also get cancellations occasionally.
Click here for information on prenatal-in-a-day classes.
Other Details
Each registration includes the mother-to-be and her partner.
Fees are subject to change without notice.
Please see our Policies page to learn about registration refunds.
All Birth Transitions classes are taught by Trudy Noort.
Questions about the classes?…or need to discuss your specific needs? Please call or email. Or register now to avoid disappointment.
All class formats include a labour and birth handbook (available online), which contains useful articles and illustrations. Group classes include a post-partum reunion (online), held several weeks after all the babies have been born. The reunion is primarily a social event, where couples can reconnect, introduce their babies and share birth stories.
Registration & payment
Register by phone or online. Your place in the class is confirmed on receipt of your payment.
You may pay by direct e-transfer, credit-card or bank-card (via PayPal), cheque or cash.
Receipts issued by email.
Content
All class formats cover the same topics. Click here to see them (listed in a pdf file).
