The Nurturing Art of Breast Feeding: Lactation Questions and Answers
When:
The Last Friday of every Month
Where:
Tumble and Tea Café, 4210 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, Ca 94609
What time:
7pm
Cost: 15.00 - 25.00 per family – no one turned away due to lack of funds
This is a drop in questions and answer group. It is open to pregnant moms as well as new breastfeeding moms. Bring your questions and concerns and receive information and support!
Complete breastfeeding classes are offered the first Saturday of each month at the Sacred Birth Place! Attending this Q & A entitles you to a discount on our complete breastfeeding class, ask Samsarah for details.
Facilitator: Samsarah Morgan is a Birth and post partum caregiver (doula) and lactation educator with over 21 years experience leading groups for new and expectant parents. Bring your questions and concerns, as well your success to share with other moms! Due to space limitations, pre-registration is required!
Please call Samsarah at 510-595-5534, or see email below!
www.birthprofessionals.milagros.org
www.tumbleandtea.com bayarebirthpros@aol.com - email
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Childbirth Preparation and Education
6 sessions
Beginning
Thursday March, 24, 2008
Where: The Scared Birth Place, 2800 Park Blvd. Oakland, Ca 94606
What time: 7 – 9 pm
Cost: 250.00 (200.00 for the clients of the Sacred Birth Place) no one turned away due to lack of funds.
Topics to be covered: Nutrition, Pregnancy, Stages and signs of Labor management, home birth, birth center or hospital birth preparation, doula care, interventions hospital and holistic, cesarean section prevention and recovery, newborn care, care of the postpartum mom, and more!
Facilitator: Samsarah Morgan is an apprentice midwife, companion and post partum caregiver, Hypnotherapist, and Lactation educator with over 21 years experience leading groups for new and expectant parents. She is the Director of Birth professionals of the Bay Area and Nia Birth Services.
Please just call or email Samsarah to enroll!
510-595-5534
www.bayareabirthpros.milagros.org
www.bayaeabirthpros@aol.com - email
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Hypnosis for Childbirth!
A Training for Expectant Parents!
Studies have shown that hypnosis can be a powerful tool in assisting a laboring woman through her childbirth experience! Deep inner peace states help Mom move purposefully and mindfully through the stages of labor to the awesome and joyful birth of her baby!
During these sessions, you and your partner (or other support persons) will learn how to tap your own inner resources of strength and self-assurance to ease or eliminate childbirth pain, and be present for the experience of bringing your baby into the world!
This work shop will help you to tap into the guiding voice of Spirit and face your Childbirth free from fear
Cost 150.00 per couple, (100.00 for clients of the Sacred Birth Place)
No one turned away due to lack of funds
Wednesday, the 9 th and 16 th , of April, 2008
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: The Sacred Birth Place, 2800 Park Blvd., Oakland, Ca 94606
Instructor: L. Samsarah Morgan is a certified hypnotherapist, birth companion. Postpartum doula and apprentice midwife. She is the director of Nia Birth Service and Birth Professionals of the bay area. She has been leading workshops and trainings in the Bay Area since 1995, and has been a Birth Companion for over 21 years.
For information call: 510-595-5534 or email bayareabirthpros@aol.com
Doula care and Holistic Childbirth Information night
When:
The last Tuesday of each month
Where:
The Sacred Birth Place
2800 Park Blvd., Oakland, Ca 94606
What time:
7pm
Facilitator: Samsarah Morgan is an apprentice midwife, birth and post partum caregiver (doula), Hypnotherapist, and Lactation educator with over 21 years experience leading groups for new and expectant parents. Find out how a doula can enhance your birth experience and help you to avoid unnecessary medical interventions! Receive information regarding bay area midwives and other birthing alternatives! Enjoy a tour of the Sacred Birth Place, a free standing birth center!
Each month we will focus on a specific topic or tool which aids conscious birthing!
This is a free event! But pre-registration is required!
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Sisters of the yam
A support group for pregnant women and mothers of
African Descent
Beginning April 2008
The first Wednesday night of the month 6 – 8 PM
$15.00 – 30.00 per session (limited scholarships available)
Location: Sacred Birth Place
2800 Park Boulevard, Oakland, Ca 94610
A space for women to refresh, renew and prepare for
the rite of passage of Birth and the ongoing process of Motherhood!
A space to heal the wounds of:
Abuse and neglect, codependency, addictions, low-self-esteem, relationship concerns, or any thinking or circumstance which keeps her from feeling joyous and in touch with her true nature!
Facilitated by: Dr. L. Samsarah Morgan, DD. Dr. Morgan is an Interfaith Minister and Counselor, Apprentice Midwife, Family Life Coach and Hypnotherapist. She is a birth and postpartum caregiver and childbirth and parenting educator. As the mother of 5 grown sons and the grandmother of two, she has first hand experience of the joys and challenges of parenting! She is the director of Nia Canter as well as Birth Professionals of the Bay Area and her private practice has offered counseling and healing session a well as workshops, seminars and retreats for individuals, couples, and families since 1995.
To join this group, a pre-registration interview is required.