I teach the several sessions of the Great Starts Childbirth Educator Training workshops.  These dynamic workshops occur twice a year.   The next workshop is scheduled for:  November 15-18, 2011. 

Great tips for choosing a childbirth educator training workshop.  

REGISTER for this workshop   

I use this activity to teach the first stage of labor emotions and activities.

Help your students figure our their medical mind-set with the Groopman-Hartzband spectrums.

Learn how to make collaborative decisions with your health care provider by following the steps in this worksheet:  Talking to Your Health Care Provider .

Assessing Obstetical Risk:  I use this obstetrical risk handout as a guide to help families understand the language their care providers use when discussing risk. This discussion happens during Class #5  of my Lamaze series at Parent Trust for Washington Children as a prelude to our discussion on medical interventions.

Inductions:  What Our Class Members Need to Know - See my 2008 presentation to the Great Starts childbirth instructors on understanding what consumers need to know about inducing labor. 

See my outline for the Great Starts Lamaze series, and 8-week, 16-hour class series.  This series started running in February, 2010. 

The Lamaze series evaulation measures class participants confidence pre- and post class.  See the class participant evaluations I use for this series.