Welcome! I'm so glad you're here! Complete Birth is a comprehensive class focusing on a positive, informed experience for your family. This class isn't about birthing in one specific way, but about equipping you with evidence-based information and tools to help you communicate with your team and navigate your birth with peace.
Here's what you can expect:
- How to stay low-risk through prenatal exercise and nutrition
- Anatomy of the birth system
- How to understand and cope with sensations in labor
- Training for partner to have an active role during labor/birth
- Relaxation techniques and Birth Affirmations to use during labor
- Labor medication options and benefits of unmedicated birth
- Stages of labor, positions and practice
- Developing your philosophy of birth
- Birth options, how to be a savvy consumer, and how to advocate in your birth space
- Variations, complications and how to navigate the unexpected
- Postpartum care for a healthy and quicker recovery
- Making a postpartum plan
- Newborn procedure options after birth and what to expect in the early days with a newborn
Guest speakers include: a prenatal and pediatric chiropractor and a pelvic floor physical therapist.
Hi, I’m Jennifer Bookamer. I've been a childbirth educator and doula since 1999. After the birth of my first child, I began my work in the birth world. My hometown had a distinct lack of options when it came to childbirth education and that nudged me into becoming certified to offer a new option to my community!
I'm glad you're here and I'm looking forward to getting to know you!
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Hear what people have to say:
My husband and I wished to have a natural birth and wanted to figure out what that truly meant. The classes were so informative and I feel like they truly prepared us for pregnancy, birth, and beyond. I loved that they covered all avenues that could happen through this season so the we would be prepared for whatever scenario labor and delivery would bring. - Kelsey
My wife and I can't imagine going through birth without Jennifer's class. She equips you with knowledge and relieves your worries. We can't recommend her enough. - Grant
Jennifer Bookamer is a gift to this birthing community and I would go so far to say a necessity for first time mamas. She is included in all of our packages for first time birthers and primary VBAC births because whether she is educating or supporting as a doula, she is simply the best. Each and every one of our moms (first time or not) walk into birth with more confidence due to the incredible education she provides. She meets people where they are at in their pregnancy/labor knowledge and takes them to the next level so they feel empowered and ready for labor and delivery. I can’t speak highly enough about the dedication she has for this work. Sure thankful to be in this community with such a passionate educator! - Krysta Freed, LM, CPM, Your Nest Midwifery
My husband and I went through the classes taught by Jennifer and we loved the way she presented the material. There was no fear mongering, no judgments, just a lot of education! We felt like we learned so much and were able to make informed decisions about our daughter's birth! I know I would not have been able to have a natural, epidural-free hospital delivery without those classes! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! - Kailie
Jennifer goes out of her way to keep childbirth education engaging and informative. I have seen time and time again how her classes help my clients to walk in to their births feeing informed and empowered. - Kasha Couillard deRoos, LM, CPM, Juniper Midwifery
Jennifer's class was the best decision my husband and I could have made! She took the time, dedication, and patience to teach us a lot of knowledge about natural birth!! We went into labor knowing all our options, full of knowledge, and how to handle certain situations. I would absolutely recommend her classes. - Courtney