Labor Coping Skills - Birthing Class - Seattle - Swedish Medical Center

Coping With Confidence - Labor Coping Skills 
This class should be taken after your childbirth preparation class. This class gives you and your support person additional practice and learning time to become comfortable with important labor coping techniques.  A variety of labor coping skills are reviewed including relaxation, breathing patterns, attention-focusing, touch, visualization, position changes and rhythm and ritual.  This class is recommended for all expectant families.  It should be taken after you have completed your childbirth class. 2-hour class.

This class is included in the Welcome Baby package 
Fee:  $35/couple

Newborn Care - Seattle Parenting Class - Swedish Medical Center

Newborn Care

This course provides important information regarding the care of your new baby including how to bathe, soothe, swaddle, diaper, dress and feed your baby.  Also included are newborn behaviors, newborn procedures, newborn appearance, growth and development, sleep safety and when to call your baby's health-care provider. This is an excellent class for all first-time parents and care-providers.  We recommend both parents attend this class. 3-hour class.

This class is included in the Welcome Baby package 
Fee:  $45/couple

Parenting 101 - Seattle Baby Care Class - Swedish Medical Center

Bringing Baby Home Workshop

Learn parenting and relationship skills that will last a lifetime. Prepare yourself for life with your baby and discover how to be the best parenting team possible. This workshop, developed by renowned relationship experts, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, helps to prepare you for the most important and rewarding job you will ever have, raising a child. The Bringing Baby Home (BBH) workshop focuses on providing new parents with the knowledge and skills necessary to cope constructively with the birth of their child.  Through lecture, group discussion and activities the BBH workshop teaches couples how to strengthen their friendship, increase intimacy, regulate conflict and how to build a "relationship house".  Couples learn to co-parent with their partner to foster child development and to see the value of keeping dad involved.  You will learn skills to become sensitive and responsive parents in an effort to promote healthier children in the emotional, social, cognitive and physical realms.  The BBH workshop encourages early parent-infant dialogue and increases positive communication, ritual development and shared meaning for the whole family.  This workshop is designed for couples who are pregnant or have infants up to three years of age.  Babies up to 3 months old welcome. 2-day class. 14 hours total.

Fee:  $150/couple

Parenting Classes for Babies in Kirkland at Evergreen Hospital

One of the greatest resources for Kirkland, Washington parents is the Evergreen Hospital which not only ranks at the top for birthing hospitals but then follows through with parenting groups, a baby wellness boutique onsite and parenting and baby classes for parents and newborns in the area.

Classes currently offered include:

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Pregnancy Exercise Class - Swedish Medical Center Seattle

Baby Your Body Pregnancy Exercise Education

This 2-week class was developed by a physical therapist from Swedish/Ballard's Rehabilitation Department.  It is designed to  help you stay comfortable and experience less pain during pregnancy.  We encourage you to begin this class early in pregnancy for the most benefit but it can be taken at any time.  This class is for women only.

Included in the class:

Baby Your Back - Teaches proper body mechanics, movement strategies as well as positioning and exercises aimed at keeping your back comfortable and injury free during pregnancy and infant care.

Pelvic Floor: The Key to Women's Health
Stresses the importance of pelvic-floor health. 

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