Opportunities for individuals, couples, and students to learn about Childbirth + Postpartum Care.
Grounded Bilingual Homebirth Midwife Care for San Diego and Tijuana, Baja California Families
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tema@lamatrizbirth.com 619.500.6552
Births Roots Women’s Health and Maternity Center
1686 Broadway, Chula Vista CA 91911
Anjali Centro Bienestar
Calle Sacramento 4424, Jardines De San Carlos, Tijuana, B.C., México
Classes held at Birth Roots Women’s Health & Maternity Center 1686 Broadway Chula Vista CA. 91911
Accelerated One Day Class
This is an opportunity to gather with other growing families learn and discuss about your baby’s BIRTH day. Allow Tema to share her experience as a mother, doula and now midwife to help you prepare for this momentous experience.
Learn more about:
Introduction to birth / Baby as active participant / Birth a physiological process
Prenatal nourishment and risk reductions for a normal birth process
Prenatal posture and exercises for optimal fetal positioning
Belly Massage and Belly Mapping / Signs & Symptoms of Labor
Creating your Birth Environment / Stages of Labor / Coping Measures
Your Placenta / Breastfeeding the first week of life
Postpartum: the 4th trimester
Class Cost – $175 per couple
Discount for my Midwifery and Monitrice Clients – $125
Birth Roots Maternity Center Clients $150
Upon registering, you will receive an email with additional details and more information. Register and pay in full upon online registration to receive a free herbal gift.
Please note: there is a required $50 non-refundable deposit due at registration. Balance must be paid by cash or check at check-in.
Tema is offering a couple of partial scholarships, please e-mail her directly at tema@lamatrizbirth.com to explain your situation.
Lunch and snacks are potluck style. Tema will provide drinks, prenatal tea, and lots of chocolate.
To register or to get notified of the next time this class is held, please click here.
More questions? Email Tema at: tema@lamatrizbirth.com
Three Day (Weekend) Class
We live in a BIRTH focused maternity culture today. So many of us plan and prepare for the moment of our birth. Where to birth, who will be your support, what you’ll wear, what you’ll eat, how you want it to be, so on and so on. Your birth experience is the shortest (yes, powerful) part of your maternity journey. Your postpartum journey will be the longest. How are you preparing for that? Do you even know where to start?
This practice is also known as Mother Roasting and Bone Closing. This particular practice is native to Mexico, with indigenous roots mixed with post-colonial herbalism. This workshop is the result of oral tradition passed down by elders, traditional teachers, grandmothers interlaced with modern midwifery and doula practices.
You will receive: Herbal preparations & recipes, 24 hours of instruction and hands-on learning, and an instructional handbook.
Herbal harvest: Proper harvesting rituals, outdoor harvest walk
Herbal preparations: Sitz bath, vaginal steam bath, belly binding oil, and postpartum warming teas. We will discuss each herb and its medicinal use. You will prepare and take home your herbal preparations for future use.
Lecture on cultural practices and history.
The ancient practice of Yoni steam baths.
Warming full body herbal bath: Learn how to provide a healing postpartum bath and re-introduce heat into the body with fresh herbs.
Postpartum Rebozo Body Work: Traditional massage techniques, manteada and rebozo bone closing ceremony. Learn the importance of realigning the body’s energetic centers, releasing stagnant energy and birth trauma, a healing practice for postpartum depression.
Belly Binding: Principles and benefits of belly binding with Bengkung Malay wrap and bandages. Practice applying the wraps during the class. You will learn how to make your own Bengkung Malay wrap and will take home two belly binding bandage style wraps.
We will discuss how to incorporate these skills and practices to your own self care as well as to the clients your serve.
More questions? Email Tema at: tema@lamatrizbirth.com
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