Postpartum Planning and Physiologic Newborn Care Class

with Sarah Venzara, CLD, Innate Postpartum Care Practitioner (in training), student midwife.

Thursdays 6:30pm- 8:00pm 

March Series:

March 17th
March 24th
March 31st

Postpartum care is not a luxury, it is a necessity!

This class is for expectant families and anyone who wants to support them. 

Learn how our physiologic design demands community support during the postpartum period, the importance of postpartum rest, and ancient postpartum traditions. Build confidence to care for your newborn with physiologic newborn education, and create an individualized postpartum care plan for the whole family.

This class meets for 3 sessions for about 2 hours and includes one postpartum care home visit to the postpartum person/new parent from Sarah Venzara. The intention of the home visit is to have the postpartum family be held and witness and honor this sacred time in your life. To bring the human aspect of our class into your family's home.

Class Topics:

  • Exploring the layers of support available to the postpartum family.

  • Taking care of our pelvic bowl after birth as a preventative medicine for pelvic health for the rest of our life.

  • Healing from Vaginal Tears, episiotomies and C-sections.

  • Postpartum Bleeding what to expect.

  • Reproductive hormones and stress hormones.

  • Postpartum Anxiety and Depression.

  • Uterine prolapse, how to prevent and treat.

  • Exercise after Birth-as implicated by our physiologic design

  • Implementation of Warmth/Heat for newborn Parent/s and the Newborn/s.

  • Postpartum nourishment.

  • Brain and hormonal health.

  • Healing Diastasis Recti.

  • Holistic Breast Health Care-for breastfeeding support and lifelong health.

  • Emotional Health of our Children (why babies cry).

  • Newborn comforting techniques 

  • Basic Infant-massage instructions.

Registration required.
Cost: Donation Based (suggested donation $350 per couple, $125 per additional attendee) due upon registration. 30% of all class donations go to CRMC’s Midwifery Service Fund.

“The natural rhythm of the Earth and of Life-is that there is a period of growth and a period of rest. This is how balance is created. Pregnancy represents the time of growth, and therefore the postpartum period represents the time of rest. In the modern world, there is no value given for rest-modern culture is focused on constant growth.  To rest in the postpartum time, is to be in harmony with the natural rhythms of Life. To be in harmony with the natural rhythms of Life is our path to health.”

~Rachelle Garcia Seliga, CPM

About the Teacher Sarah Venzara, CLD, Innate Postpartum Care Practitioner (in training), student-midwife, doula, mentor:

My journey into birth work began at the age of 20, in 2004 volunteering at a freestanding birth center in Cebu City, Philippines where I witnessed over 15 mothers birth their babies naturally surrounded by caring midwives. I found my calling! Two months later I returned to San Diego and started working as a postpartum doula providing care to many new families and soon became a certified Labor Doula with CAPPA in 2007. While attending National College of Midwifery in 2007-2009, I had the honor of apprenticing with Andrea Meyer, LM, CPM as a student midwife for two years until I had my first child in June 2009. During my time with Andrea I assisted births as well as prenatal, postpartum, well-woman, well-baby, and newborn visits. I am honored to have been a part of several families' lives during this incredibly intimate and fragile time. In the years since I have birthed all three of my own children naturally under midwifery care and have continued to serve my local birthing community teaching, volunteering, and consulting. This past year in 2021, I became a student midwife, for the second time in my life with National College of Midwifery, working with Jennifer Dossett, RM and Jennifer Barr, RM CPM attending prenatal visits, births and postpartum follow up care appointments as their student. I am currently training to become a Postpartum Care Practitioner with Rachelle Garcia Seliga, CPM owner of Innate Traditions, and will be completing my certification this spring of 2022. I am passionate to bring this incredible knowledge, wisdom and experience from all of my life teachers and mentors to hopefully prepare you and your loved ones for your postpartum recovery and metamorphosis into being the mother to your new little person(s).