Birth Basics
Education and Preparation for Modern Families
All Classes offered on an Online Telehealth platform via Zoom
Evidence-based methods, with a focus on informed consent and undisturbed birth practices.
With Khefri Riley, CLEC, CPYT, HCHD, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth & Newborn Educator, Prenatal Yoga Specialist, Doula Trainer and Mentor
Classes fill quickly so please send in your registration form + fees and you will be confirmed in class.
Price & Registration $395 per couple
Questions? doulainfo@losangelesbirthpartners.com
Location: Online via Zoom
Birth Basics:
A Two Class Series
Wednesday Evenings 6:30 - 9:30pm
*unless otherwise specified due to holidays
2024
August 21 & 28
September 18 & 25
October 16 & 23
November 20 & 21 * (back-to-back Wed/Thurs classes)
December 11 & 12 * (back-to-back Wed/Thurs classes)
Class Description
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How to have a better hospital birth
The Birth Partner / Family Presence / Self Empowerment
Basic Procedures/ Comfort Measures
Pain Medication Preference Scale
Birth ball work
Comfort positions and breathing practice
Labor interventions and inductions
Family centered cesarean birth
Birth Plan Choices and Postpartum Plan review
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Birth Fundamentals
Your Beliefs About Birth / Undisturbed Birth
Informed Consent, Shared Decision Making and Human Rights at Birth
Optimal Fetal Positioning (OFP) and The Miles Circuit as preparation
Stages of Labor - Discussion and Film, Pushing and Birth, The Placenta
The first two hours post partum: The bonding period/breast feeding cues, The Breast Crawl
We want better birth options for all birthing people.
Studies state that birthing people… “who had attended classes scored significantly higher in the areas of self-actualization, health responsibility, exercise, nutrition, and interpersonal support”
Learn more about Birth Basics Instructor, Khefri Riley CLEC, CPYT, HBHD:
Khefri Riley is CEO of Khefri.com, Urban Goddess Lifestyle & Los Angeles Birth Partners. She also serves as a Co-Founder and Director of The Frontline Doulas - Perinatal Health Program connecting Black Doulas to Black families, recently featured on PBS and NBC.
She is a current Co-Design team member of the California DHCS Medi-Cal Doula Benefit Stakeholder Workgroup and Community Communications Advisory Team. Her foray into the world of babies has its inspiration from her paternal great-grandmother, an African-Indigenous granny midwife from the Deep South.
Khefri is a Childbirth Educator & Prenatal Yoga Specialist & has taught thousands of people to mindfully embody the multi-faceted experience of new parenthood. She brings over 20 years experience as a Maternal-Child Advocate, Certified Lactation Educator Counselor, Birth and Postpartum Doula, Doula Trainer, Newborn Care/Childbirth Educator and Hypnobabies “hypnodoula.”
Khefri has attended over 300 births, at all major hospitals in Los Angeles County. Her infant classes have been featured in People Magazine, NBC, CNN & Fox Ch. 11 News.
Khefri has taught thousands of parents, mothers, fathers, and babies the joys of natural childbirth, post-partum recovery, breastfeeding and yoga. Sharing her multi-disciplinary knowledge with others, she leads large group trainings for parents, teachers, healthcare professionals and educators.
“Birth is an opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through birth.”
– Marcie Macari
Refund Policy
Parent Education classes are a fee for service program based on limited confirmed enrollment and secured fees. A minimum amount of attendees must be enrolled for a class series to begin. Please choose your classes carefully. Therefore, our childbirth class policies are applied uniformly and without exception. We require a 48-hour cancellation for refunds. There will be a $50.00 administration fee for cancellations. There are NO REFUNDS if you miss the class. We will fit you in to the next scheduled session if possible.
Mothers/Birthing people placed on complete bed rest may make-up the class when released from bed rest or make arrangements for a private in home class. (Additional fees will be charged for an in home class). Please have a letter from your doctor to allow you to take a class or be more mobile.
Due to the nature of our business where a baby may arrive early, we will try and help you in any way we can, however the refund policy is without exception.
