Prepare With Confidence
Personalized prenatal classes designed to give you clarity, confidence, and calm as you anticipate your little one’s arrival.
Prenatal Classes at Helping Hands
Your time is valuable, and preparation for your baby should fit seamlessly into your life, not require an entire weekend of generic information. Our private prenatal classes are designed to reflect your schedule, learning style, and unique needs while providing the most up-to-date, evidence-based education.
Whether you have already read every book, taken hospital classes, and are now seeking practical guidance for what to do in the moment, or you are brand new to this journey, our classes are designed to meet you exactly where you are. We offer a wide range of topics including the stages of labour, comfort measures, birth preferences, infant feeding, newborn care, and more.
Each session is fully tailored to your needs, ensuring you receive the tools and strategies most relevant to you and your partner. Your learning experience will reflect your birth location, your current knowledge, and your goals, so that you walk away with clarity, confidence, and the preparation you truly need. Continue reading below to explore the topics available and discover how to customize a package that is right for your family.
Topics to Build Your Customized Program
Signs and Stages of Birth
Understand what to expect from the first signs of labour to holding your baby in your arms. Learn how to time contractions, recognize each stage of labour, and understand the terminology your care providers will use.
Birth Preferences
Move beyond a traditional “birth plan” with a flexible, rolling plan that advocates for your values while preparing for birth’s unpredictability. Learn your birth facility’s protocols, understand the tools available, and feel confident in making choices that reflect what’s most important to you.
Comfort Measures
Build a toolkit of strategies to help you manage contractions and stay grounded. Explore positions, massage techniques, breathing practices, and how your support team can help. Learn how to approach early labour, maximize comfort with an epidural, and stay calm during a cesarean birth.
Infant Feeding
Gain a clear understanding of how lactation works and what to expect in the early days. Learn about latching, positions, hand expression, pumping, milk storage, and formula preparation. Walk away with a personalized plan for your feeding journey and clarity on when to seek extra support.
Newborn Care (Baby 101)
Practical, hands-on tools for the early days and nights with your newborn. Learn diapering, burping, soothing, safe sleep, bathing, and more. Start with confidence rather than trial-and-error.
Baby Registry and Household Planning
Make confident choices without the overwhelm of endless lists or conflicting advice. This session helps you explore what products and systems will work best for your family, based on your goals, parenting style, and home setup. Learn what most new parents actually use, what often becomes clutter, and how to create a registry that sets you up for success.
Signs and Stages of Birth
Understand what to expect from the first signs of labour to holding your baby in your arms. Learn how to time contractions, recognize each stage of labour, and understand the terminology your care providers will use.
Birth Preferences
Move beyond a traditional “birth plan” with a flexible, rolling plan that advocates for your values while preparing for birth’s unpredictability. Learn your birth facility’s protocols, understand the tools available, and feel confident in making choices that reflect what’s most important to you.
Comfort Measures
Build a toolkit of strategies to help you manage contractions and stay grounded. Explore positions, massage techniques, breathing practices, and how your support team can help. Learn how to approach early labour, maximize comfort with an epidural, and stay calm during a cesarean birth.
Infant Feeding
Gain a clear understanding of how lactation works and what to expect in the early days. Learn about latching, positions, hand expression, pumping, milk storage, and formula preparation. Walk away with a personalized plan for your feeding journey and clarity on when to seek extra support.
Newborn Care (Baby 101)
Practical, hands-on tools for the early days and nights with your newborn. Learn diapering, burping, soothing, safe sleep, bathing, and more. Start with confidence rather than trial-and-error.
Baby Registry and Household Planning
Make confident choices without the overwhelm of endless lists or conflicting advice. This session helps you explore what products and systems will work best for your family, based on your goals, parenting style, and home setup. Learn what most new parents actually use, what often becomes clutter, and how to create a registry that sets you up for success.
Add-On Mini Classes
Enhance any class with an additional 30 minutes of instruction.
Prenatal preparation and baby care education aren’t just for first-time families. Many parents choose to refresh their knowledge, update their skills, or focus on new priorities the second (or third) time around. For families welcoming another baby, we also offer Sibling Prep as an optional add-on. This focused 30-minute session helps prepare your older child or children for their new role, creating more confidence and ease for the whole family.
Each add-on is designed to be paired with any of our prenatal classes, giving you the flexibility to personalize your learning with extra support on the topics most meaningful to you.
Sibling Prep
Help your older child feel confident, included, and excited about becoming a big sibling. This add-on session supports families through the transition of welcoming a new baby, with age-appropriate strategies to ease common challenges like regression, tantrums, or attention-seeking behaviors. Parents gain practical tips for fostering connection, while children engage in hands-on activities that teach gentle touch, patience, and “baby rules” in a fun, interactive way. Together, we’ll explore how your child can step into their new role with pride, making the transition smoother for the whole family.
Our Packages
Hug
Deeper preparation across three sessions for families who want more guidance and hands-on tools.
- 3 sessions | 6 hours total
Embrace
Our most comprehensive class series. A full 10 hours of education, covering birth, infant care, and feeding with room for all your questions.
- 6 sessions | 10 hours total
Register and Next Steps
- Choose your format: Zoom, in-home (subject to availability), or a combination of both
- Select your package & any add ons: Helping Hand, Hug, or Embrace
- Complete your online registration and payment
- For Virtual: Receive a booking link to our online calendar to schedule your sessions, or connect with our Care Coordinator for personal assistance
- For In-Home: Have our Care Coordinator assist you with booking your sessions & upgrade to in-person learning
- Each package includes a virtual pamphlet to refer back to with your tailored information
- For Zoom sessions, you may also choose to have your class recorded, so you can revisit the content as many times as you’d like
Learn More Anytime
In addition to our private classes, we invite you to explore our Helping Hands Doula YouTube Channel, where we share short, practical educational videos designed to support you through pregnancy, birth, and early parenting.
With over 30,000 subscribers, our channel is a trusted resource for families seeking clear, compassionate guidance. You’ll find a library of quick tips and expert insights you can access anytime, at no cost.
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