Expecting and Empowered
Your Journey Through Education with Birch Tree Birth Services.
Nourish your body, baby, and mind with classes at Birch Tree Birth Services—gently guiding, empowering, and educating you on the most important topics for your journey.
Prep for Post
Prepare for your birth as a parent with Through to Thrive’s flagship course, Prep for Post. In this series an experienced educator and doula will guide you through making an extensive, four page, postpartum wellness plan including budget, risk factors, communication agreements and boundaries as well as how and when to ask for help when challenges arise. After a private class you can look forward to check-in messages from your instructor to make sure you are truly thriving.
Each class format is approximately six hours of instruction and conversation. The workbook is included in the class pricing. The First Year bundle of books can be ordered for an additional fee.
This course is a brand new way to prepare for the birth of your baby or babies created by licensed mental health counselor, Kate Littlefield. In her own words this class is “designed based on years of experience in which parents in various stages of parenting said “nobody ever told me…” and realizing that there are definitely more things we could be telling parents before the arrival of a new baby - whether it’s the first baby or a new baby arriving to a home with seasoned parents”.
Childbirth Education
Coming December 2026
This three-part childbirth education class is designed to help families understand how birth works to navigate a variety of birth experiences with confidence. To support families with different journeys, we cover the natural, physiological processes of labor and birth, and also explore common interventions and pharmacological pain-relief options so families feel informed and prepared for whichever path they choose and have the information necessary for if circumstances shift along the way. We share practical coping techniques and comfort measures that support the body during labor and help families create birth wishes and plan for postpartum in a meaningful way. This course is built for families birthing in any setting, and is designed to be inclusive of all kinds of parents and families - first time parents, seasoned parents, single-parents, and multiple caregivers. We have also strived to be inclusive of race, gender, sexual orientation.