Newborn Care Class

Join us and learn how to care for your newborn from those very first moments after birth, so that you can enter this new phase of your life confident and ready to begin!

An experiential class, each member in our intimate group setting will receive personalized instruction and hands-on training in how to care for their new baby. Members will leave feeling more familiar with newborn qualities and behaviors, and ready to tailor their new-found skills to their own newborn's unique needs.

In this thorough 4 hour Newborn Care class participants will learn:

• Interpreting baby's cues

• Cord care & newborn health

• Sleep patterns & what to expect

• What to expect immediately after the birth

• Tummy time, baby wearing & kangaroo care

• Jaundice and other common newborn conditions

• Choosing a pediatrician & knowing when to call them

• When to feed the baby & how to know they're getting enough

• Supplies for bathing, diapering, nail trimming, skin care & more

• How to bond more deeply, improve your sleep & learn to trust your parenting instincts

... And will receive hands-on instruction in:

• Soothing

• Swaddling

• Diapering (cloth, compostable & disposable)

• Holding baby & transferring them person to person

• Bathing, nail trimming, the Colic Dance & other skills

• lothing (what to buy, how to wash it and what to bring the baby home in!)

If the birthing parent is partnered, both parents are strongly encouraged to attend.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:  Rebecca (Plum) Elowen, LM, CPM, IBCLC is a Midwife and Lactation Consultant who offers preconception, prenatal and postpartum midwifery care, lactation consultation, support groups, fertility support, and education in newborn care, breastfeeding and sibling preparation in SF, Marin, Sonoma and the East Bay. She strives always to uphold the midwifery model of care, offering information and empowerment, so that her clients can look back on their accomplishments with pride and a deeper sense of their own true power and wisdom. Rebecca received a B.A. in Psychology (with a emphasis on parent-infant attachment and bonding) from Mills College in 1999, became a Birth and Postpartum Doula in 2001, and became a Licensed & Certified Professional Midwife in 2010. In 2013 she became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and in 2018 was trained in Infant Craniosacral Therapy.  Rebecca has taught classes in newborn care, postpartum preparation, childbirth and sibling preparation, and breastfeeding at Carmel Blue, CPMC, Kaiser, Natural Resources, and privately since 2003, and has been facilitating various support groups for new parents since 2007.