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Motherhood comes with endless questions, and we’re here to provide expert guidance every step of the way. Whether you're preparing for birth, navigating postpartum, or learning how to care for your newborn, our education programs are designed to empower you with knowledge and confidence in a supportive, judgment-free space.

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Current Prenatal Classes In Albuquerque

Browse our upcoming expectant and birth class offerings. Click within each class to sign up for one, or become a member for class perks!

  • Instructor: Nadya Loughrey
    Price: $50

    Learn what your pelvic floor is, how pregnancy and birth change it, and simple ways to support it through every stage. In this approachable, hands-on class, you’ll discover gentle techniques for strength, comfort, and recovery, whether you’re expecting, newly postpartum, or months into motherhood.

    Your pelvic floor is the unsung hero of pregnancy, birth, and recovery, yet most people only hear about it when something feels wrong. This class is your chance to understand, care for, and feel confident about this vital part of your body.

    In this interactive, down-to-earth session, you’ll learn:

    • What & where your pelvic floor actually is, and why it’s so important during pregnancy and after birth.

    • How pregnancy changes it (yes, even if you have a C-section).

    • How to connect with your pelvic floor for better support, mobility, and comfort.

    • Safe, practical ways to prepare it for birth and support healing postpartum.

    • How to spot early signs of things like leakage, heaviness, or discomfort, and what you can do about them.

    You’ll walk away with:

    • Gentle, beginner-friendly movement and breathing techniques.

    • Strategies you can use daily to feel stronger, more supported, and more in control.

    • Confidence in your body’s ability to adapt, recover, and thrive.

    Whether you’re expecting, newly postpartum, or several months out and still figuring things out, this class will give you the knowledge and tools you wish you’d learned sooner. This is for every body, all birth plans, all delivery types, all stages of the postpartum journey. No awkwardness, no judgment, just practical tools, real talk, and support for the season you’re in.

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  • Instructor: Natalie Swart
    Price: $70

    Get ready to breastfeed with clarity and confidence! This prenatal breastfeeding class is your essential guide to navigating the first days, weeks, and months of your breastfeeding journey. Led by Natalie Swart, BS, IBCLC, CLE, LCP, this compassionate and evidence-based class prepares expectant parents to feel empowered and informed from birth through the return to work and beyond l.

    You’ll learn how breastfeeding works, what to expect in the hospital, how to get off to a great start, how to recognize your baby’s feeding cues, and how to manage common challenges. We’ll also cover pumping basics, milk storage, and how to maintain your supply when returning to work or school.

    Whether it’s your first baby or your fifth, this class will leave you feeling supported and ready — with practical tools, realistic tips, and expert insight every step of the way.

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    Sat, October 25th, 2025 (10:00 AM- 11:30 AM)

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  • Instructor: Natalie Swart
    Price: $70

    Whether you're returning to work, building a freezer stash, or planning to share feeding responsibilities, understanding how to choose and use your breast pump can make all the difference.

    In this hands-on class, you’ll get a guided tour through the world of pumping. From selecting the right pump for your lifestyle to mastering setup, fit, settings, and storage—this class covers it all. You’ll leave feeling more confident, less overwhelmed, and fully supported in your pumping journey.

    In this class, we’ll cover:

    • The different types of pumps (manual, electric, wearable, hospital-grade)

    • Flange fit and comfort

    • Pump settings and routines for efficient milk removal

    • Milk storage guidelines and safe handling

    • Tips for building and protecting your supply

    • Pumping at work, on the go, or exclusively

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    New class dates coming soon!

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  • Instructor: 41 Wellness
    Price: $375 per couple

    Instinctive, Calm & Comfortable Birthing. HypnoBirthing is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. It is a rewarding, relaxing, stress-free method of birthing that is based on the belief that all babies should come into the world gently, in a atmosphere of calm and joy. HypnoBirthing prepares a birthing couple - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually - for an easier, more comfortable and sometimes, pain-free, birth. Through a well-thought-out program of deep relaxation, self-hypnosis, special breathing techniques, visualizations, affirmations, and education, HypnoBirthing returns to a woman the art of birthing in a way that allows her to summon her natural birthing instincts and to birth her baby safely and with ease.

    "When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change." Marie Mongan

    Upcoming Dates:

    November Workshop
    Sat, Nov 1, 2025 (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)

    Sat, Nov 8, 2025 (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)

    Sat, Nov 15, 2025 (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)

    Sat, Nov 22, 2025 (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)

    Sat, Nov 29, 2025 (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)

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  • Instructor: 41 Wellness
    Price: $125 per couple

    Empower your birth with 41 Wellness and The Village Motherhood Company through Birthing with Confidence, a fast-paced and engaging class that helps you understand the incredible process of labor and childbirth. Whether you’re planning a hospital birth with an epidural, a homebirth in water, or anything in between, we support all birth choices and provide evidence-based knowledge to help you make informed decisions. This interactive class includes videos, demonstrations, hands-on practice, and comfort techniques to use with your support person. You’ll receive Plumtree Baby’s Preparing for Birth book, a class folder, and helpful handouts. Our unbiased, independent instructors cover essential topics such as the stages of labor, relaxation and breathing techniques, pain management, medical interventions, movement for an easier birth, and postpartum care. Gain confidence, feel prepared, and approach your birth with knowledge and support.

    Upcoming Dates:

    October Workshop

    Sat, Oct 4, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)
    Sat, Oct 18, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

    December Workshop

    Sat, Dec 6, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)
    Sat, Dec 20, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

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  • Instructor: 41 Wellness
    Price: $60 per couple

    Discover a doula’s top 10 tips for a memorable birth, receive a curated list of essential questions to ask your provider, explore all your options for unexpected scenarios, and learn how to prepare your body now for labor with advanced comfort measures. Every birth is unique, requiring numerous decisions from the birthing family. A great complement to a childbirth class or a stand-alone option, this workshop goes beyond standard instruction with massage techniques, rebozo use, birth balls, TENS units, aromatherapy, visualization, and more. Join our 3-hour Birth Plan & Comfort Measures Workshop taught by our childbirth educators and doulas to see how making informed choices in advance and aligning expectations with your partner can create a calmer, more confident birth experience. Whether you choose to create a complete birth plan on the worksheets we provide or not, discussing your preferences with your partner ensures you’re a cohesive team on your baby’s birth day!

    Upcoming Classes:

    Sat, Nov 1, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

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  • Instructor: 41 Wellness
    Price: $60 per couple

    Bringing home a newborn is exciting—but it can also feel overwhelming! Newborns A to Z is designed to give new and expecting parents the confidence and skills they need for those early weeks. In this class, we’ll cover the fundamentals of newborn care, including feeding (breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and formula options), diapering, swaddling, soothing techniques, safe sleep practices, and what to expect in the first few months. You’ll also learn about newborn cues, common challenges, and how to navigate the emotional transition into parenthood. Whether you're preparing for your first baby or need a refresher, this class will help you feel ready to care for your little one with confidence and calm.

    Upcoming Classes:

    Sat, Nov 15, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

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  • Instructor: Amy Link
    Price: $104

    Join us for Empowered Birth: Pelvic Preparation for Labor, a hands-on class designed to help you confidently prepare your body for labor and delivery. Learn essential strategies for pelvic floor relaxation, perineal massage, effective pushing techniques, and labor positions that support a smoother birth experience. Birthing partners are welcome to attend and participate!

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    New classes coming soon!

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  • Instructor: Kalie Tenorio
    Price: $60 per couple

    Navigate the early weeks of parenthood with confidence in Sweet Slumber: Newborn Sleep & Rhythms. This class is designed to help you understand your baby’s natural sleep patterns while fostering a secure and loving attachment. We’ll explore gentle, attachment-based approaches to sleep, creating sustainable routines and daily rhythms that work for both you and your baby. You’ll also gain practical strategies for surviving the fourth trimester, including soothing techniques, managing day/night confusion, and setting the foundation for healthy sleep habits. Perfect for expecting parents or parents of babies 0-3 months!

    Upcoming classes:

    Sat, Nov 1st, 2025 (10:00 AM-12:00 PM)

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  • Instructor: Amanda Maratas

    Price: $35 per person

    If you are a parent, babysitter/nanny, grandparent, or want to learn, this class is for YOU!

    Join Amanda, a NICU nurse, on October 25th, from 3 PM to 4:30 pm for a workshop on handling emergencies. Teaching is based on updated American Heart Association guidelines.

    We will cover:

    • When you should perform CPR 

    • How to deliver high-quality CPR on an infant or child

    • When and how to use an AED

    • How to know someone is choking and what to do

    • How to handle a situation where someone becomes unresponsive while choking

    You will receive hands-on practice doing compressions with an AHA-certified doll, live coaching, an opportunity to ask questions, AND an E-book afterward for future reference.

    I can't wait to meet you and teach you these life-saving skills!

    Non-certification class

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    Saturday, October 25th, 3:00pm-4:30pm

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  • Instructor: Nadya Loughrey

    Price: $75 | Small group class (max 8 people)

    You’ve got the hospital bag, the onesies, the birth plan… but what about a postpartum plan?

    This class is for pregnant people who’ve prepared for birth—but want to feel just as ready for what comes after. Because the truth is: postpartum can be beautiful, but it’s also unpredictable, messy, emotional, and exhausting in ways that are hard to imagine until you’re in it. You deserve a plan that’s about you.

    Hour 1: Build Your Support System

    Personalize your postpartum plan so it actually supports you. Learn how to ask for help that helps, set boundaries with visitors, plan meal trains, and build shared routines with your partner. Explore your sensory preferences so you can set up an environment that helps you stay grounded and resourced—before the overwhelm hits.

    Hour 2: Navigate the Inner Shift

    This hour dives into the emotional landscape of postpartum—sensory overload, feeling touched out, identity shifts, and mental health. We’ll talk self-love, evolving relationships, and redefining intimacy and pleasure on your terms. It’s real, honest support for what happens after the plan.

    You’ll leave with:

    • A beautiful, personalized Postpartum Playbook

    • Small-group connection (only 8 spots)

    • Clear steps to feel supported your way

    • A sense of calm about what’s ahead

    Led by a pelvic floor occupational therapist and maternal health specialist who’s been there, done that with her own postpartum and with her clients—and created this class because she knows how she would do it differently. To thrive, not just survive.

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    There are no upcoming classes scheduled at this time.

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Current Postpartum & Toddler Parent Classes In Albuquerque

Browse our upcoming postpartum (and beyond) class offerings. Click within each class to sign up for one, or become a member for class perks!

  • Instructor: Katie Schmierer
    Price: $60 per couple

    Bringing home a newborn is exciting—but it can also feel overwhelming! Welcome to Parenthood: Newborn Care Essentials is designed to give new and expecting parents the confidence and skills they need for those early weeks. In this class, we’ll cover the fundamentals of newborn care, including feeding (breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and formula options), diapering, swaddling, soothing techniques, safe sleep practices, and what to expect in the first few months. You’ll also learn about newborn cues, common challenges, and how to navigate the emotional transition into parenthood. Whether you're preparing for your first baby or need a refresher, this class will help you feel ready to care for your little one with confidence and calm.

    Upcoming Classes:

    Sat, Nov 15, 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

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  • Instructor: Nadya Loughrey
    Price: $50

    Learn what your pelvic floor is, how pregnancy and birth change it, and simple ways to support it through every stage. In this approachable, hands-on class, you’ll discover gentle techniques for strength, comfort, and recovery, whether you’re expecting, newly postpartum, or months into motherhood.

    Your pelvic floor is the unsung hero of pregnancy, birth, and recovery, yet most people only hear about it when something feels wrong. This class is your chance to understand, care for, and feel confident about this vital part of your body.

    In this interactive, down-to-earth session, you’ll learn:

    • What & where your pelvic floor actually is, and why it’s so important during pregnancy and after birth.

    • How pregnancy changes it (yes, even if you have a C-section).

    • How to connect with your pelvic floor for better support, mobility, and comfort.

    • Safe, practical ways to prepare it for birth and support healing postpartum.

    • How to spot early signs of things like leakage, heaviness, or discomfort, and what you can do about them.

    You’ll walk away with:

    • Gentle, beginner-friendly movement and breathing techniques.

    • Strategies you can use daily to feel stronger, more supported, and more in control.

    • Confidence in your body’s ability to adapt, recover, and thrive.

    Whether you’re expecting, newly postpartum, or several months out and still figuring things out, this class will give you the knowledge and tools you wish you’d learned sooner. This is for every body, all birth plans, all delivery types, all stages of the postpartum journey. No awkwardness, no judgment, just practical tools, real talk, and support for the season you’re in.

    Upcoming Classes-

    New classes coming soon!

    Sign Up

  • Instructor: Amy Link
    Price: $70

    Discover how to support your C-section recovery with expert techniques, including scar massage, cupping, breathwork, and movement strategies to restore strength and mobility. This workshop is ideal for women between 8 weeks and 12 months postpartum.

    Upcoming class dates:

    New classes coming soon!

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  • Instructor: Kalie Tenorio
    Price: $60 per couple

    Navigate the early weeks of parenthood with confidence in Sweet Slumber: Newborn Sleep & Rhythms. This class is designed to help you understand your baby’s natural sleep patterns while fostering a secure and loving attachment. We’ll explore gentle, attachment-based approaches to sleep, creating sustainable routines and daily rhythms that work for both you and your baby. You’ll also gain practical strategies for surviving the fourth trimester, including soothing techniques, managing day/night confusion, and setting the foundation for healthy sleep habits. Perfect for expecting parents or parents of babies 0-3 months!

    Upcoming classes:

    Sat, Nov 1st, 2025 (10:00 AM-12:00 PM)

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  • Instructor: Nadya Loughrey
    Price: $100 per couple

    Step away from the baby chaos and into a night of connection, laughter, and bonding. Reconnecting is a playful, interactive date night designed for postpartum couples to relax, rediscover each other, and strengthen their emotional connection—no pressure, just fun. Through sensory exploration, gentle movement, and simple breathwork, you’ll build a deeper bond while learning pelvic health tips to support your bodies. This night is all about feeling good together, with easy-to-follow exercises and practical communication tools to help you navigate your new rhythms and rediscover joy in your relationship. It’s a safe, nurturing space to breathe, move, and grow as a team.

    *Childcare available for $25, or may be included if you are a member of The Village

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    There are no upcoming dates at this time.

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  • Instructor: Kalie Tenorio
    Price: $120 per couple

    Every baby is unique, and so is their path to better sleep! Rested & Connected: Baby & Toddler Sleep Foundations empowers parents of babies 4 months to 2 years with knowledge and tools to create a sleep approach that fits their child’s temperament and their own parenting style. This class covers gentle, attachment-based strategies, as well as a variety of customizable sleep approaches to help with common challenges like regressions, night wakings, and nap transitions. You'll learn how to establish sustainable routines, foster secure attachment, and create a sleep plan that works for your family—because there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to healthy, restful sleep.

    Upcoming Classes:

    Sat, Dec 6th 2025 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

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  • Instructor: Kalie Tenorio
    Price: $100 per couple

    Big kids need great sleep too! Sleep & Security: Restful Nights for 3-5 Year Olds is designed to help parents navigate sleep challenges unique to the preschool years, from bedtime battles to night wakings and early mornings. In this class, you'll explore a variety of gentle, attachment-based sleep strategies that support your child’s growing independence while maintaining a secure and loving connection. Learn how to create calming bedtime routines, set healthy sleep boundaries, and adapt sleep approaches to fit your child’s temperament and your parenting style. Whether you're transitioning away from naps, dealing with fears, or just looking for more peaceful nights, this class will give you the tools to help your child (and yourself!) get the rest you need.

    Upcoming Classes:

    Sat, Jan 3, 2025 (10:00 AM - 1:00 PM)

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  • Instructor: Natalie Swart
    Price: $70

    Whether you're returning to work, building a freezer stash, or planning to share feeding responsibilities, understanding how to choose and use your breast pump can make all the difference.

    In this hands-on class, you’ll get a guided tour through the world of pumping. From selecting the right pump for your lifestyle to mastering setup, fit, settings, and storage—this class covers it all. You’ll leave feeling more confident, less overwhelmed, and fully supported in your pumping journey.

    In this class, we’ll cover:

    • The different types of pumps (manual, electric, wearable, hospital-grade)

    • Flange fit and comfort

    • Pump settings and routines for efficient milk removal

    • Milk storage guidelines and safe handling

    • Tips for building and protecting your supply

    • Pumping at work, on the go, or exclusively

    Upcoming Classes-

    New dates coming soon!

    Sign Up

  • Instructor: Amanda Maratas

    Price: $35 per person

    If you are a parent, babysitter/nanny, grandparent, or want to learn, this class is for YOU!

    Join Amanda, a NICU nurse, on October 25th, from 3 PM to 4:30 pm for a workshop on handling emergencies. Teaching is based on updated American Heart Association guidelines.

    We will cover:

    • When you should perform CPR 

    • How to deliver high-quality CPR on an infant or child

    • When and how to use an AED

    • How to know someone is choking and what to do

    • How to handle a situation where someone becomes unresponsive while choking

    You will receive hands-on practice doing compressions with an AHA-certified doll, live coaching, an opportunity to ask questions, AND an E-book afterward for future reference.

    I can't wait to meet you and teach you these life-saving skills!

    Non-certification class

    Upcoming classes -

    Saturday, October 25th, 3:00pm-4:30pm

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