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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 classes and craniosacral therapy for adults and infants.
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Please call or contact us for your free consultation and tour.
464 NE Norton Ave. Bend, Oregon 97701 (541) 318-6961
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Please Join us for next Early Beginnings Free Pregnancy Class. See our calendar for upcoming dates.
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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. Based on international maternal and infant health experts and the book Birthing From Within by Pam England.
A hands-on class that covers:
• Pregnancy and Postpartum Well Being; Nutrition, exercise,
emotional and physical self-care.
• Labor and birth; how to work with your body through labor, comfort
measures, visualization, breath and labor massage practices.
• Postpartum and newborn care; preparing your home and family for
the early weeks of having a new baby, breastfeeding, how to
care for your newborn’s physical and emotional needs, diapering
options, baby carriers, 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.)
Family Playgroup
Come and connect with other parents sharing the same joys and challenges. We meet once a week at Juniper Park. Children of all ages are welcome.
Meets every Thursday 11:00am-12:30pm.