Childbirth Education for a Great Postpartum
Prepare for birth. Prepare for what comes after.
You can learn a lot about contractions, dilation, and pushing.
But what happens after the baby is born?
How will the choices you make during labor affect your recovery? What can your partner actually do to help? What happens if your birth doesn't go according to plan? And how can you prepare now for feeding, recovery, and those first days at home?
Childbirth Education for a Great Postpartum is a one-day, in-person childbirth class that connects labor, birth, feeding, recovery, and life with your new baby.
Saturday, November 7
9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Quabbin Birth Services
21 Mohawk Trail, Unit 18, Greenfield, MA
$275 per family
Includes the birthing person + partner/support person
Limited to 5 families.
A one-day, in-person childbirth education class designed to prepare you for birth, postpartum recovery, feeding, and the transition home with your new baby.
Saturday, November 7 | 9 AM–3 PM
Optional Q&A from 3–4 PM
Greenfield, MA
$275 per family
Registration includes the birthing person and one support person. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Can't make November 7?
Join the waitlist for our February, May, or August classes.
A Childbirth Class That Doesn't Stop at Birth.
Most childbirth classes focus on getting you to the moment your baby is born. This one prepares you for birth—and for bringing your baby home.
There is a lot to learn when you're expecting: how labor works, when to go to the hospital, pain-management options, interventions, feeding your baby, newborn sleep, postpartum recovery…the list can feel endless.
Childbirth Education for a Great Postpartum brings the pieces together so you can understand not only what may happen during labor and birth, but how the choices and experiences surrounding birth can affect feeding, recovery, bonding, and those first weeks with your baby.
You’ll leave with practical information, tools you can actually use, and a clearer idea of what to expect—so you and your support person can make informed decisions together rather than trying to figure everything out in the moment.
This class will help you feel more prepared for:
How labor progresses and what’s happening in your body
Comfort measures and ways your partner/support person can help
Hospital and birth-center routines and what your options are
Common interventions and how to make informed decisions
The first hours and days with your baby
Feeding and establishing milk supply
Postpartum recovery and what’s actually normal
Planning for the practical and emotional realities of life with a newborn
COURSE SPECIFICS
What We'll Explore Together
Labor & Birth
How labor progresses, birth hormones, comfort measures, pain relief, induction, assisted birth, and cesarean birth.
Making Informed Decisions
Understanding your options, communicating with your care team, and navigating situations when birth doesn't go according to plan.
Your First Hours With Baby
What happens immediately after birth, bonding, newborn behavior, feeding, and establishing milk production.
Postpartum Recovery
What to expect physically and emotionally after birth—and when something may warrant additional support.
Preparing for Life at Home
Newborn care, feeding, sleep, partner/support-person roles, and creating a realistic postpartum support plan.
Meet Your Instructors
Lo Nigrosh, IBCLC, Childbirth Educator & Doula
Lo has spent years supporting families through pregnancy, birth, infant feeding, and postpartum. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, childbirth educator, and doula, she brings a perspective that goes beyond preparing for the day your baby is born.
Her work with postpartum families has shown her again and again how closely birth, recovery, feeding, and the transition to parenthood are connected. She created Childbirth Education for a Great Postpartum to help families prepare for the whole experience—not just labor.
Sara Seligman, CBS
Sara is a Certified Lactation Support Provider who works alongside Lo at Quabbin Birth Services, supporting families during pregnancy and postpartum. She has completed extensive lactation education and clinical training and has sat for the International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) exam.
Sara brings a warm, practical approach to helping families understand infant feeding, newborn behavior, and the transition into life with a new baby.
Together, we’re not here to teach you the “right” way to give birth.
Our goal is to help you understand what’s happening, know your options, ask useful questions, and feel more prepared to make decisions that work for you and your family—even when birth doesn’t go exactly according to plan.
Feel More Prepared for Birth—and What Comes After
Join us for a small, interactive, in-person childbirth education class designed to give you and your support person practical tools for labor, birth, feeding, recovery, and those first weeks with your baby.
Saturday, November 7
9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Greenfield, Massachusetts
$275 per family
Limited to 5 families
November 7 doesn’t work for you?
Join our waitlist and be the first to know when registration opens for our next in-person class.