7 Holistic Birth Prep Classes, or 2 Prenatal Partner Workshops

Let me be your guide through Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum. Western Midwife’s Knowledge & Experience infused by Eastern Traditional Wisdom, Yoga & Ayurveda.

All you ever wanted to know and experience, to prepare at best for the birth of your baby and … your own rebirth into a mother or father! All classes are highly interactive and include birth art, Q&A and a handout.

7 BIRTH PREP CLASSES Online Zoom or Life in Bangkok

1 CONSCIOUSLY PREGNANT. We explore pregnancy from all angles: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, with links to Ayurveda. How about your own birth? How to prepare for this huge transformation from woman into mother with a chance to rebirth yourself? How to ensure being healthy, living a healthy pregnancy and making a healthy baby? How to consciously breathe, eat, move, rest, sleep, love and have a spiritual practice? How to educate your baby in the womb?
2 MY BIRTH PLAN. The birth plan is a road map for your birth trip and helps you to be informed and empowered, visualizing your labour and birth in detail. You will design your personal birth plan based on a template, listing your preferences on a host of issues and procedures concerning pregnancy, labour and immediate postpartum. Discuss this plan with your doula/doctor. However, pregnancy and birth are unpredictable, so we like to keep our plans flexible!
3 MY POSTPARTUM PLAN. We explore your postpartum plan. The first 42 days after birth define your next 42 years in life! Design your plan with 1. Nourishing and healing confinement foods (includes shopping list). 2. Nurturing self-care. 3. Household support allowing new sleeping patterns. 4. Creating a new universe with the baby. 5. Expectations of changing relationships and roles. 6. Support from caretakers. Includes a postpartum food shopping list and references to postpartum literature.
4 BIRTH OF A MOTHER AND A BABY. We learn about the stages of physiological labour and birth of your baby and of yourself into a mother, hormones, stages of labour, pain-fear-anxiety, pain coping techniques from hypnobirthing, tearing. Medical interventions such as induction, epidural anaesthesia, episiotomy, vacuum suction birth, caesarean birth. We practice positions for labour and birth. And what can we do with the placenta?
5 BREASTFEEDING. You tap into your innate skills of breastfeeding. Yes, your body knows how to do this! Learn about the good latch, different positions for breastfeeding, hormones and the milk production, sore nipples, mastitis and food to support lactation. And how can baby create good feeding habits?
6 SACRED 42 DAYS POSTPARTUM FOR MOM. This class is all about the value of mothering the mother while reclaiming traditional postpartum care and women’s wisdom, so that …one day, you can walk into menopause being wholy healthy. Learn about the 5 pillars of postpartum care for the new mother. 1. Welcome and honour the mother. 2. Nourish her with food for body-mind-soul (includes rest and household support). 3. Nurture her with breath and bodywork (steam, body massage, body scrub, breast massage, vaginal steam). 4. Bind the belly and close the bones. 5. Celebrate her like a queen. Sacred postpartum care in the first 42 days after birth is an investment in your health for the next 42 years!
7 BABY’S FIRST 42 DAYS ON EARTH. You learn about falling in love with your baby, baby massage and baby bath, eat and sleep patterns, nappies and elimination communication, cord care, cramps and how you and your partner can adapt to less sleep, sharing the care and start parenting this baby!

2 Prenatal Partner Workshops, Life in Bangkok

1 Prenatal Partners Workshop 1: A Blissful Pregnancy and Birth Experience WHEN: Saturdays 3-6pm on 13 March, 3 April, 15 May, 12 June 2021 COST: 1,500 thb for 1 person, 2,800 thb for 1 couple BOOKING/PAYMENT: click on GOING on the FB event and book with Krist’l, the teacher, 48 hrs before the workshop. Maximum 6 couples per workshop. Your participation is confirmed after payment. No cancelations due to limited numbers. For payment: Kristel D’haene, TMB Bank, 223-2-28414-7. Kindly send payment slip via Messenger or WhatsApp 0957010084. Thank you. WORKSHOP CONTENT: 💐🌺🌹🌷🌻 This workshop is about how to best navigate pregnancy, this time of huge transformation and uncertainty. And preparing for child birth, aiming for beautiful birth experience for both you, your baby and your partner. We explore pregnancy from all angles: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social. With links to Ayurveda, you determine your body type. This will be useful to navigate postpartum in a blissful way. • How to ensure being healthy, having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby? • How to consciously breathe, eat, move, rest, sleep, love and have a spiritual practice during pregnancy? • How to prepare for this huge transformation from woman into mother? From father into dad? From an individual into a parent and a couple into a family? • Can you educate your baby in the womb? A birth plan gives you a voice during labor and birth. This template helps you gain awareness about your labour and birthing options, based on your personal philosophy, attitude and state of mental and physical health. Take time to educate yourself so that you can be fully aware and satisfied about your own decision. We learn about the stages of physiological labour and birth of your baby and of yourself into a mother. Hormones, stages of labour, pain-fear-anxiety, pain coping techniques from hypnobirthing. Medical interventions such as induction, epidural anesthesia, episiotomy, vacuum suction birth, caesarean birth. We practice positions for labor and birth with your partner and you enjoy a blissful gong sound bath relaxation. Delicious Yogi Tea is served.
2 Prenatal Partners Workshop 2: Postpartum Sanctuary Mom Baby Partner WHEN: Saturdays 3-6pm on 20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 22 May, 19 June 2021 COST: 1,500 thb for 1 person, 2,800 thb for 1 couple BOOKING/PAYMENT: click on GOING on the FB event and book with Krist’l, the teacher, 48 hrs before the workshop. Maximum 6 couples per workshop. Your participation is confirmed after payment. No cancelations due to limited numbers. For payment: Kristel D’haene, TMB Bank, 223-2-28414-7. Kindly send payment slip via Messenger or WhatsApp 0957010084. Thank you. WORKSHOP CONTENT: 💐🌺🌹🌷🌻 While your birth plan allows you to visualize and communicate your ideal birth, a postpartum plan is an excellent tool to anticipate and plan for the support you need to experience a blissful and magical 42 days postpartum and beyond. These 6 weeks are also named sacred window, golden month, fourth trimester, lying in period, confinement period and are celebrated in all traditional cultures with specific rituals, food and body care practices. …Because the first 42 days after birth define your next 42 years in life! …. Ideally you create the postpartum plan in your third trimester, together with your partner. High and disturbed VATA energy after giving birth, leads to unbalances in body mind spirit. This class is about how to rebalance VATA after birth with nourishment, yoga and breathwork, rest and body care avoiding postpartum depression, body pains, exhaustion, slow healing, difficult relationship with baby and partner, difficulties in baby feeding. You get insight how to design your plan based on the essential pillars of postpartum care: • Defining your body type allowing to adjust the imbalances after birth • Welcoming, honoring, celebrating the new mother • Nourishing and healing confinement foods • Nurturing self-care for mommy with YUU FAI and belly binding • Baby care/massage/bath • Household support allowing rest and new sleeping patterns • Slow rhythm lifestyle, allowing gentle postpartum breathing and exercises, and spiritual practice while falling in love with your baby. We practice positions for labor and birth with your partner and you enjoy a blissful gong sound bath relaxation. Delicious Yogi Tea is served.

PAYMENT PLAN

7 holistic Birth Prep Classes The Zoom Meeting ID will be sent to you after online payment.

Group classes with minimum 3 paying participants.

1 group class: 800 THB/ 24 $/ 22 Euro
3 group classes: 2.100 THB/ 67 $/ 60 Euro
7 group classes: 4.700 THB/ 153 $ / 137 Euro

Private classes: dates can be anytime upon agreement.

1 private class: 2.400 THB/ 78 $/ 70 Euro
3 private classes: 6.200 THB/ 200 $/ 180 Euro
7 private classes: 15.500 THB/ 500 $ / 450 Euro

2 Prenatal Partner Workshops

Prenatal Partners Workshop 1: A Blissful Pregnancy and Birth Experience

Prenatal Partners Workshop 2: Postpartum Wellness Mom Baby Partner

COST: 1,500 thb for 1 person, 2,800 thb for 1 couple

Payment to Thai Bank or through PayPal (only outside of Thailand, plus fee)

TMB Bank, Kristel Dhaene, Account nr 223-2-28414-7
PAYPAL: kristldhaene@gmail.com, PayPal.Me/KristelDhaene

THE DETAILS

Prenatal Partners Workshops

WHERE: Lotus Reiki & Yoga, 43 Soi Atthakan Prasit (Sathorn Soi 1), Thung Maha Mek, Sathon, Bangkok 10120, https://goo.gl/maps/oMSvysTf5zvgF1mK8 , MRT Lumpini (walking distance), BTS Sala Daeng (5 mins taxi).

Workshop 1: A Blissful Pregnancy and Birth Experience

WHEN: Saturdays 3-6pm on 13 March, 3 April, 15 May, 12 June 2021

COST: 1,500 thb for 1 person, 2,800 thb for 1 couple

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Prenatal Partners Workshop 2: Postpartum Wellness Mom Baby Partner

WHEN: Saturdays 3-6pm on 20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 22 May, 19 June 2021

COST: 1,500 thb for 1 person, 2,800 thb for 1 couple

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: How do I join a group class? Feel free to call me for more info on WhatsApp +66 957010084, kristldhaene@gmail.com . You can sign up on the Event page of my Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/pg/holisticmidwifekristldhaene/events/?ref=page_internal

Q: Can I do a private class? Sure! Anytime, just call me to arrange a date.

Q: How long does the class lasts? The 7classes are about 1:30 hours each, total about 10 hours for 7 classes. The 2 prenatal partner worshops are 3 hours each.

Q: How many classes would I need? Ideally you take all 7 classes. However, you can take 1 class or 3 classes in package.

Q: What do I wear? Easy clothing to sit on a mat and do some exercises.