Comfort and Connection for Birth and Beyond

Comfort and Connection for Birth and Beyond Table of Contents

 Tying it all together!  

Cloth wraps have been used for supporting and carrying in every culture  since before known  history.  Learn how to use a wrap for labor and birth support, as a baby carrier, and for whole-family comfort and connection.  

This class is the most personal offering at Pinkpeas.  It combines immediately practical and accessible tools for physical comfort, support, and connection for your pregnancy and birth, and applies them to your whole family, and for the rest of your life, along with "Nine Lessons", intended to give couples tools and recourses to strengthen their relationship and to not just survive the early years of parenting, but to thrive and create a beautiful, strong family that can stay the course.  Using narration and communication tools such as prayer and meditation,  speaking and listening exercises, and journaling prompts, you can enhance the whole family’s respect for each person’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs, and know when and how to seek outside resources for additional help.  

Your choice of a ring-sling or rebozo is included. 

Table of Contents

Receiving a Wrap or Carrier / a Rebozo or a Ring Sling 

Lesson 1 – WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? 
Lesson 2 – WHAT IS A MAN? 
Lesson 3 – WHAT ARE THE NEEDS OF MAN? 
Lesson 4 – COMMUNICATION IS CONNECTION 

Pregnancy 

Lesson 5 – THE REFINING NATURE OF MARRIAGE 
Lesson 6 – NARRATION and a SHARED MORAL IMAGINATION 

Labor and Birth

Lesson 7 – …FROM A STATE OF REST 
Lesson 8 – A FAMILY CONSTITUTION 
Lesson 9 – FROM A GARDEN TO A WEDDING FEAST …In a Temple Garden 

Babywearing

 APPENDIX – ALICE’S RABBIT HOLES          
GLOSSARY