Another Birth/Another Story

Women preparing for another birth after a difficult or traumatic birth will gain confidence by learning new approaches to the coming birth.  “Birth trauma is in the eye of the beholder.”  (Cheryl Beck)  Your story may be painful for you, yet look routine or ordinary to others. Laboring women want and deserve to be main characters in their child’s birth.  They look for attentive care and a sense of being cared about from their providers,  for clear communication, and for active involvement in decisions.  In this class, each parent will identify how those needs were met and/or not met in the difficult birth and will learn about ways to approach providers and each other --  and birth itself --  to minimize the possibility of another trauma.

Instructors:  Suzanne Swanson & Susan Lane
When: TBD
Cost: $60 per couple

To register email Susan at salane@visi.com (Please indicate the class title in the subject line of the email.) or call 612.810.1544

Susan Lane, CD, LCCE, CLC.  Susan is certified as Lamaze Childbirth Educator, a Lactation Counselor, and as doula with DONA International.  She has been a doula for 14 years, and is the state representative for DONA as well as coordinator for the MN Better Birth Coalition and a founding member of the Childbirth Collective. Susan is mother of four adults and grandmother of two toddlers

Suzanne Swanson PhD, is  a Licensed Psychologist and mother of three grown children.  Her practice, Mothers Matter, specializes in pregnancy, birth, postpartum and mothering.  She is co-ordinates Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Minnesota and Postpartum Support International, Minnesota.  Suzanne is the author of What Other Worlds:   Postpartum Poems.