Feeling a little anxious about the transition back to work after your baby comes? You're not alone! Join career coach and gender studies expert, Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves for a power hour of strategies to help smooth your transition back to work after your baby comes. We'll put any anxiety you may have into perspective. Hint: our society could do a lot more to support new mothers and babies in all their transitions, especially this one! But we'll also get your toolkit ready.
We'll talk about how to:
-Plan for New Routines
-Advocate & Communicate at Work & at Home
-Level up your Mindset
-Set up Your Support Systems
-Embrace the Mess--and the Opportunities!
-Build Community & Learn from Others

More about Jodi :
Jodi Vandenberg-Daves is a coach, consultant, writer, and former professor and department chair at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, in the Dept. of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her career coaching and consulting work builds deep experience in higher education, non-profit leadership, authorship, teaching, and mentoring. Jodi brings research-based and real-world applicable strategies to women of diverse backgrounds who want to take ownership of their career journeys. She also helps organizations build a more diverse leadership pipeline, create cultures of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and value the work of caregivers and all those doing the work of emotional labor and social transformation. Jodi is the author of Modern Motherhood: An American History (Rutgers University Press, 2014) and a book of poems: Poems in the Mother Tongue. She is currently finishing a book on women bringing their values to work at every stage of career: Work That Matters: A Guide to Careering for Idealistic Women.

Class packages apply! Or $25 to drop in.

Prenatal Yoga is the perfect practice for mamas at every stage of pregnancy, from the first trimester to 40 weeks (and beyond!). Each class includes 50-60 minutes of prenatal yoga + discussion and information to support your pregnancy and birth journey. The practice places an emphasis on breath as a tool for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and is both invigorating and gentle. Poses incorporated are intentionally chosen to create a strong, relaxed, and supportive body in pregnancy and to prepare the body and mind for birth.

Prenatal Yoga is the perfect practice for mamas at every stage of pregnancy, from the first trimester to 40 weeks (and beyond!). Each class includes 50-60 minutes of prenatal yoga + discussion and information to support your pregnancy and birth journey. The practice places an emphasis on breath as a tool for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and is both invigorating and gentle. Poses incorporated are intentionally chosen to create a strong, relaxed, and supportive body in pregnancy and to prepare the body and mind for birth.

Prenatal Yoga is the perfect practice for mamas at every stage of pregnancy, from the first trimester to 40 weeks (and beyond!). Each class includes 50-60 minutes of prenatal yoga + discussion and information to support your pregnancy and birth journey. The practice places an emphasis on breath as a tool for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and is both invigorating and gentle. Poses incorporated are intentionally chosen to create a strong, relaxed, and supportive body in pregnancy and to prepare the body and mind for birth.

Whether this is your first or your fourth baby, whether you choose to birth at the hospital, at home, or a birthing center, & whether your goal is an unmedicated water birth, scheduled c- section, VBAC, or anything in between, every birthing person deserves to feel empowered to choose the best path for them + their baby.

Join Emily Sustar, RPYT, RYT 500, & Birthing From Within mentor, Erin Edwards, LPN, IBCLC, former long time doula, & L & D nurse, & Corrine Jandrt, RPYT, RYT 200, doula, & holistic childbirth educator, for a comprehensive childbirth preparation course designed to empower both the birthing person and their partner. This course will cover the basics of birth; what happens in labor + delivery & postpartum, coping techniques, movement, breath, and strategies to add to your toolbox for the birth journey, mental and physical preparation for the parenthood transition, the 4th trimester, and breastfeeding / chestfeeding preparation + support.

Week 1- Empowered Pregnancy = Empowered Birth
(scaling expectations, labor theater, pain vs suffering, mindset work, mantras, breath, movement for pregnancy, birth plan, + intentions, coping tools)

Week 2- Basics of Birth + Movement for Labor (basic anatomy, overview of phases / stages of labor & birth, putting it all together & putting it into practice)

Week 3- Immediate Postpartum + 4th trimester (newborn cares, mama repairs, PMADS, boundaries for help postpartum, setting up postpartum support game plan)

Week 4- Breastfeeding Basics (initiating breastfeeding, the golden hour(s), the first 2 weeks, bottles, pumping basics)