Best Prenatal Classes Available in Vancouver & online


We are delighted to offer our excellent classes both LIVE at our East Vancouver location, and also ONLINE via zoom. All classes are still in real time, with a live instructor answering your questions. Whether online or in person, our dynamic and engaging classes provide opportunities for interacting, for building community, and for active participation.

Check our schedule of dates to see which classes are “live” and which are offered on “zoom”. Please contact us for more information about either.

Evenings or Weekends?

Regardless of your schedule, we’ve got a class for you! Below you’ll find our two main prenatal classes. Curious about what other classes we offer? Check out our full class list here.

 
Expectant parents in a main prenatal class - Childbearing Society

Evening Series

OUR MOST POPULAR OPTION

Our Evening Series is an engaging 6 week prenatal course imparting all the basic information about labour, birth, & caring for your newborn, as well as guiding you in discovering your own coping mechanisms and parenting philosophies. Highly enjoyable & jam-packed with useful information, you will learn things you didn’t know you needed to know. You will feel prepared and empowered, you will look forward to each class and you will talk about the content for weeks afterward!

Our standard evening series package includes 16.5 hours of instruction and covers the following material:

  • Normal labour & birth

  • Relaxation, positions & coping skills for labour

  • Medical pain relief, decision-making & procedures

  • Postpartum survival

  • Newborn care

  • Early parenthood

Included:

  • The 2 1/2 hour Breastfeeding Class

  • Prenatal class reunion (2 hours, online)

Evening Series participants also receive complimentary admission to their first Virtual Parenting Talk after baby arrives.

 

Weekend Workshop

Our Vancouver Prenatal Weekend Workshop covers the same information as our Evening Series Prenatal Classes in a condensed format. Spend two days and one evening with other expectant parents in a fun and educational prenatal workshop.

Our standard weekend workshop prenatal package includes 14.5 hours of instruction and covers the following material:

  • Normal labour & birth

  • Relaxation, positions & coping skills for labour

  • Medical pain relief, interventions & procedures

  • Postpartum

  • Newborn care

  • Early parenthood

Included:

  • The 2 1/2 hour Breastfeeding Class

  • Prenatal class reunion (2 hours, online)

Weekend Workshop participants also receive complimentary admission to their first Virtual Parenting Talk after baby arrives.