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Childbirth education

Prepare for birth with confidence.

Evidence-based childbirth education led by experienced nurses, helping parents feel informed, supported, and ready for one of life's biggest moments.

Teaching credentials

  • Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse

    Licensed nursing background informing every lesson.

  • Bedside birth experience

    Labor and delivery experience supporting parents through birth.

  • International Certified Childbirth Educator

    Trained specifically in teaching birth preparation.

Preparing for birth shouldn't mean sorting through noise

Most expecting parents have no shortage of information. What they lack is a calm, ordered way through it — one that explains what usually happens, what the options are, and what is worth thinking about in advance.

BirthPrep exists to give you that: evidence-based education grounded in real labor and delivery experience, taught plainly, without alarm and without pressure toward any one way of giving birth.

Ways to prepare

Four routes into the same body of education. Choose the one that fits your life.

Self-paced birth preparation

A structured program you can move through at your own speed, revisiting any lesson as often as you need.

Live classes

Group sessions, virtual and in person, with space to ask the questions that matter to you and your partner.

Private sessions

One-to-one educational time focused on the topics you most want to understand before birth.

Resources

Practical guides and checklists to help you prepare without wading through conflicting advice.

How preparation works here

  1. Step 1: Understand what happens

    Build a clear picture of labor, birth, and the early days, so less of it comes as a surprise.

  2. Step 2: Decide what matters to you

    Work through your options calmly, in your own time, rather than in the middle of a contraction.

  3. Step 3: Prepare your support

    Give your partner or support person specific, practical things they can actually do.

Morolake Ilesanmi, RN, ICCE, Founder and Lead Childbirth Educator of BirthPrep

Taught by a nurse who has been in the room

Morolake Ilesanmi, RN, ICCELabor & Delivery Registered Nurse | International Certified Childbirth Educator. The teaching here comes from bedside experience supporting parents through labor and birth, translated into education you can use before you get there.

Read more about her background and teaching approach on the about page.

About the educator

What this is, and what it isn't

This is education. It sits alongside your prenatal care and is designed to make your conversations with your own care team more useful — never to replace them.

We do not assess, diagnose, treat, or advise on individual medical situations, and we do not collect health information. Please keep symptoms, test results, and medical history out of any message to us.

Partners are part of this

Support people do better when they know what is coming and what their job is. Everything here is built to be learned together.

A partner who understands the stages of labor, knows the comfort measures, and knows when to simply be present is one of the most useful things you can bring into a birth room.

Common questions

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Start with the birth preparation program

See what the self-paced program covers and how it is structured.

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