Melissa Cole IBCLC facilitates this one-day, in-depth class is for professionals supporting families in the postpartum period.

Topics include:

* Herbal care basics: Safety, resources, contraindications, herb-drug interactions

* Herbal support for lactation & milk production

* Perinatal endocrine health: thyroid, glycemic index, iron, adrenals, inflammation and pain

* Infant digestion

Details: Friday April 11, 9am - 4:30pm, $199

Location: Loving Arms/East Bay Lactation Associates: 1260 45th Street Emeryville

Refresh your memory and learn new skills to support your clients in this morning workshop for and by perinatal providers!

* Using Infant Reflexes to Make Latching Easier - Molly Brannigan, IBCLC

* How Doulas can Support Pelvic Health - Dr. Shaunic Stanford, PT/DPT

* Acupressure & Moxibustion for Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum - Kathy Woo, Acupuncturist, Herbalist, Hypnotherapist

Details: Sunday April 27, 9am - 12:30pm, $40

Location: Loving Arms 1260 45th Street Emeryville

Do you ever worry about not knowing what to do with your hands with your clients?

Do you feel unsure about how close or how deep to go with your touch? 

Or do you already feel confident and simply want to expand your repertoire to bring more comfort and support to laboring people with your touch? 

Yiska Obadia’s Comforting Touch for Doulas is a training for the doula of any experience level who wants to add more skillful touch to their bag of tricks! With 30 years of massage practice and 23 years of doula experience, Yiska’s amazing one-day workshop will teach you what you need to know to tend your clients in birth!

Details: Sunday May 4th, 10am - 5pm, $250

Location: Loving Arms 1260 45th St Emeryville

Join us for a 2.5 hour workshop covering essential learning and caring for, supporting, and serving clients and their families in the immediate and subsequent aftermath of perinatal or neonatal loss (including, but not limited to, miscarriage, termination for medical reasons, stillbirth, and early infant death). This heartfelt training will offer ideas for how you can hold clients and their families with compassion, mindfulness, and ritual, as they navigate acute grief, as well as remaining cognizant of the longer term needs families might face after a loss, including in subsequent pregnancies.

Details: Saturday May 31, 10 - 12:30pm, $45

Location: Loving Arms 1260 45th St Emeryville

Meredith Isaksen is a registered AMFT, mama to three living children, poet, and former writing and literature professor. She knows firsthand the complexity of living through perinatal loss and is committed to helping people and their caregivers find hope again amidst the grief and uncertainty.