Prepare for birth. Planning to breastfeed?This class connects the two.
Childbirth education for a Great Postpartum.
If breastfeeding matters to you, you deserve more preparation than “it’s natural” and “ask for help if it hurts.”
You deserve to understand how breastfeeding works, what those first days can really look like, and how your birth experience can influence feeding.
This one-day, in-person class brings childbirth education and breastfeeding preparation together. We’ll explore your birthing options, common interventions, and how those experiences can affect the start of breastfeeding—including practical ways to support feeding when birth takes an unexpected turn.
Whether you’re expecting your first baby or hoping for a different experience this time, we’ll help you and your support person prepare for birth and for feeding your baby when you get home.
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.
“I wish I’d known this before my baby was born.”
I hear this from my lactation clients all the time.
They prepared for labor, researched their options, and wanted so much to breastfeed. But once their baby arrived, they found themselves trying to learn everything while recovering from birth and caring for a newborn.
I know that feeling personally. I was determined to breastfeed my first baby. Although I did, it was hard—and I carried so much fear into breastfeeding my second.
I created this class to bring together the information I wish I’d had and the things my clients keep telling me they wish someone had explained sooner.
We’ll prepare for labor and birth while keeping an important question in view: What could this mean for recovery and breastfeeding, and what support might help?
This class will help you:
Understanding your options. Prepare for breastfeeding.
There isn’t one perfect way to give birth, and preparing well can’t prevent every feeding challenge. But understanding what’s happening—and knowing what to do next—can help you feel less overwhelmed.
Birth choices and breastfeeding
Learn about the hormones and physiology of birth, comfort measures, pain relief, induction, assisted birth, and cesarean birth. We’ll discuss how different birth experiences can influence early feeding and ways to address challenges when they arise.
What breastfeeding is really like in the beginning
Build realistic expectations for the first hours, days, and weeks: frequent feeding, learning to latch, establishing milk production, and figuring out whether your baby is getting enough.
What to do when feeding isn’t going as expected
Learn what deserves attention, when to reach out, and how to find skilled support. You don’t have to wait until you’re desperate to ask for help.
How your support person can help
Your partner or support person will learn about breastfeeding too, along with practical ways to support feeding, protect your recovery, and help you get rest.
Recovering and bringing your baby home
We’ll talk about physical and emotional recovery, newborn behavior, and building a realistic postpartum support plan that makes room for feeding and your own needs.
Is this class for you?
This class is for you if:
You want to breastfeed and would feel better understanding how it works before your baby arrives.
You’ve heard difficult feeding stories and want practical preparation.
Breastfeeding was hard with a previous baby, and you want more information and support this time.
You want to understand how birthing options and interventions may affect early breastfeeding.
You want your support person to feel prepared to help with birth, feeding, and recovery.
You don’t need a particular birth plan or previous breastfeeding experience. Bring your questions, your hopes, and any worries you’re carrying.
Prepare for the birth—and the breastfeeding experience—you’re hoping for.
Join us for a small, interactive childbirth class with breastfeeding preparation woven throughout.
Get your questions answered, understand your options, and leave with practical tools for those first days with your baby.
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.