Birth Basics

Education and Preparation for Modern Families

All Classes offered in an Online Telehealth platform via Zoom App during Covid-19 public closures.
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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 

Location: Online via Zoom

Questions? Interested in in-person or virtual private classes? doulainfo@losangelesbirthpartners.com  

All Group classes offered on an Online Telehealth platform via Zoom

Birth Basics:
A Two Class Series

3rd & 4th Wednesday 6:30 - 9:30pm

*unless noted otherwise due to holidays

2025 Dates

January 22nd & 29th *

February 19th & 26th

March 19th & 26th

April 16th & 23rd

May 21st & 28th

June 18th & 25th

July 16th & 23rd

August 20th & 27th

September 17th & 24th

October 15th & 22nd

November 19th & 20th * (back-to-back Wed/Thurs)

December 11th & 12th * (back-to-back Thurs/Fri)

  • "As first time expecting parents, the multiday course built a solid foundation for us for the birth. It was awesome to do the class as a couple, each person in the relationship plays a critical role. The vibe was calm and expert. ... you just felt their commitment to your eventual birthing experience and that this was their passion in life. ... Come time for go time, it all fell into place. They instilled in us that we are not sick, or needing external help to give birth - I truly felt that our bodies know what to do, are built to do this, and that it's a natural and easy process. ... I was an over 40 first time mother. ... we had a successful and easy home birth!"

    Yulin O

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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 

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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”

- Source: J Perinat Educ. 2002 Summer; 11(3): 10–19.

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.