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Welcome! 

Ruth is an experienced Perinatal Registered Nurse and Childbirth Educator. She has cared for pregnant women, post partum women and newborns for 17 years. She has spent her entire career specializing in birth care of women and infants. Ruth attends birth all over the country and to date has been present at thousands of births in diverse locations; critical access rural hospitals to metropolitan highest risk city  locations. She has worked in low risk communities as well as in facilities with renowned specialized care for high risk births. She shares practical advice about birth and early parenting in on-line, interactive classes. Ruth trained in childbirth education at the Bastyr University Simkin Center in Seattle with International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA). She has also been mentored by  experienced childbirth educators across the country. She teaches in hospitals, community settings and private homes. Ruth currently teaches from her home in Sitka, Alaska where she also writes about birth inside the Tongass National Rainforest. The Tongas is a wilderness full of constant regeneration. It literally flows with new life.  

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 Classes focus on the importance of trusting your intuition, your chosen birth team, your body and your baby throughout the birth process.

Class also refers you to a variety of respected resources such as Spinning Babies, Evidence Based Birth, In Joy Curriculum, current standards of ACOG, AWHONN, ACNM, March of Dimes, World Health Organization, DONA, and much more. Class is full of engaging activities, useful tools and plenty of back and forth discussion with pregnant people and their chosen birth partners. 

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Your Class Can Include Any of the Following: Healthy Pregnancy Norms, Birth Partner Tips Galore, Preparing For Birth, Comfort in Birth, Signs of Labor, Movement in the 3rd Trimester and Birth, The Birth Process, Pushing Tips, Tricks and Physiology, Birth: The First Minute and First Hour, Common Medications, Common Medical Procedures in Birth, Common Monitoring Options and Requirements, Birth Care Models Across the Country, Common Complications and their Common Treatments, Vaginal Birth, Ceserean Birth, Vaginal Birth After Ceserean, Bonding, Breastfeeding, The Fourth Trimester/ Post Partum, Communication With Your Birth Team and Birth Partner, Current National Standards and Where To Find Them, Finding Your Rituals and Rhythms in Birth, Navigating a New Birth Experience

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Reach out today and book your childbirth education class. 

Send an e-mail to birthtutor@gmail.com and we will work out a plan together. 

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