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Motherwise Birth Center
The Bend, Oregon midwives at Motherwise Community Birth Center offer complete prenatal care, birth center or home birth, water birth, postpartum care, childbirth and prenatal yoga classes. Whole family care with our Family Nurse Practitioner.
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464 NE Norton Ave. Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 318-6961
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We Welcome Allison LiaBraaten, FNP to Motherwise!!! Now Open.... Motherwise Clinic in Prineville, located at the Prineville Associates Medical Building. FIND OUT MORE IN OUR NEWSLETTER.
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Motherwise Classes
New Beginnings: FREE Early Pregnancy Class
This class will cover nutritional basics and exercise, as well as suggestions for alleviating common pregnancy discomforts including: morning sickness (nausea), heartburn, & back discomfort. New classes held monthly. Please call to reserve your spot.
Gentle Beginnings Childbirth Class
This class is a complete preparation course for the expectant woman and her partner. Whether you’re having your first baby or your third, this class will help you to connect to yourself, your baby, your partner, and other families as you prepare for the birth and care of your new baby. This eight-week, hands-on class covers the whole new-baby gamut: The pregnancy section covers how to incorporate good nutrition, exercise, emotional and physical self-care into your daily routine; Labor and birth covers how to work with your body through labor, comfort measures, and prenatal and labor massage techniques. Postpartum and newborn care covers preparing your home and family for the early weeks of having a new baby, breastfeeding, and how to care for your newborn’s physical and emotional needs. We’ll learn about diapering options, practice using cloth and disposable diapers, go over the basics of bathing, discuss day and nighttime parenting, and learn about infant massage beginning at birth.
Birthing Again
This class is designed for families getting ready to give birth again, or first-time families who would like a quick refresher after their childbirth class has finished. This one-day, hands-on class will cover: belly mapping for optimal baby positioning, signs of labor, comfort measures for labor and birth, labor massage techniques, breastfeeding basics, and how to prepare yourself and your older children for the new baby and postpartum period.
Welcome to Our Family! (A Sibling Class)
Help your children feel comfortable with the birth of a new sibling. In this class, children and their families will enjoy a fun-filled hour of age-appropriate information on birth, infant feeding and newborn care. We’ll watch a birth movie that helps siblings to be present and prepared for the birth of the new baby. We’ll talk about what life is like with a new baby, and how they can be part of the care of the baby. The whole family will get some hands-on time diapering a “baby” (using cloth and disposable diapers), putting “baby” in a sling, and burping and comforting the new “baby.” We’ll finish class up by making a “welcome to our family” gift for the new baby brother or sister.
Partner Massage Class
Learn and practice massage techniques for an easier pregnancy and less stressful delivery. This one-day introduction or refresher course for pregnant couples will include information on oils and aroma therapy.
Baby Massage Class
Give your baby the most nurturing start possible. Learn baby massage in this one-day class intended for mamas, papas and their babies.
Yoga for Pregnancy
Discover how yoga can deepen your relationship with yourself and your baby as you stretch, strengthen, relax, and breathe your way through your childbearing year. Small group classes are offered in the cozy classroom space at the birth center, giving mothers the opportunity to share in their practice of balance, patience, courage, grace, and equanimity — while relieving many of the common complaints of pregnancy. Beginners are encouraged to attend, and private in-home sessions are also available upon request. And your first class is free!
(10-class passes available and discounts offered for Motherwise clients)
Natural Family Planning & Fertility Awareness Class
This class is for women or couples wanting to learn a reliable, natural method for preventing or achieving pregnancy. By learning how to chart your fertility signs, you can determine a wealth of information — including whether you’re ovulating, pregnant, prone to miscarriage, or suffering from a thyroid condition or polycystic ovarian syndrome. Class includes a workbook and 12 months of charts. Call for a class schedule.
(Class meets twice as a group, plus one individual consultation.)
Mama’s Morning Tea
Are you pregnant? Do you have a baby at home? Come and connect with other women sharing the same joys and challenges. Each week there will be information on a topic that’s important to today’s moms.
Meets every other Thursday 10:00 -11:30am