Group · In person · MonthlyNext class: 19 September 2026 — sessions 19, 26 & 27 September · 6 spots left
Group childbirth class in Montreal — parents learning labour and delivery techniques

A fully comprehensive childbirth curriculum — covering birth, recovery, and postpartum.

Taught in a group, in person.

Grounded in Canadian guidelines and delivered without an agenda, so every decision is yours to make. You'll walk away knowing all your options, with a clear framework for making the choices that are right for your birth and your family.

This is a group, in-person childbirth education and prenatal class series in Montreal, covering labour and delivery, birth recovery, and postpartum.

Lamaze-Trained Childbirth Educator · DONA International Birth & Postpartum Doula Training

Three sessions

What you'll learn

Session One: Labour & Delivery

  • What labor actually feels like, and how to recognize when it's starting
  • Pain relief, medical and non-medical, explained without an agenda
  • Understanding your options and interventions — so you can ask the right questions and make informed choices
  • Comfort measures and positions, demonstrated hands-on by your instructor — try them if you'd like, no pressure to perform

Session Two: Birth Recovery

  • What your body actually goes through after birth — vaginal or cesarean
  • Healing timelines, warning signs, and who to call when
  • Pelvic floor, diastasis recti, and the physical realities almost nobody prepares you for
  • Real self-care, not generic advice

Session Three: Preparing for Parenthood

  • Newborn care essentials — feeding, sleep, and the first days home
  • Recognizing when something needs a closer look, and which provider to call
  • Building your support system before you need it
  • What to expect from your own transition into parenthood, not just your baby's

Why group classes

A one-on-one class can only ever teach you what you already know to ask about. In a group, you learn from everyone else in the room — the question another parent asks that you'd never have thought of, the worry someone else says out loud that you've been carrying quietly, the answer that turns out to matter more to you than it did to them.

You also get to see it, not just hear it. Comfort measures and labour positions land differently when you watch another couple try them, adjust, and get it wrong before they get it right. You pick up things by watching that no handout or private session can hand you.

And you leave with people. Everyone in the room is due within weeks of you, going through the same thing at the same time. Birth and parenting knowledge used to pass down through generations, and modern life has diluted that. This is how we rebuild the village — a small group of people who know exactly where you are, because they're there too.

"Real information instead of guesswork — and a room full of people going through the same thing at the same time, so you're not doing this alone."
— Vanessa Landry, your instructor

Meet your instructor

Vanessa Landry

Vanessa Landry, Montreal childbirth educator and postpartum doula

I'm a postpartum doula and childbirth educator, and what I care about most is making sure new and expecting parents walk into birth and parenthood with real information — and the confidence to make the choices that are right for their family. A lot of classes come in with their own agenda, often pushing you toward an unmedicated birth as though that's the only real way to do it. That's never been mine. My job is to lay out your actual options and help you make a calm, informed choice. Whatever you decide, the choice stays yours.

I'm a mom of two, having my third at the end of 2026. Between my own births and the families I've supported since, I feel strongly about rebuilding something we've lost: the village. Not that long ago you'd have had an aunt down the street or a grandmother close enough to show you how to hold a newborn. Most of us don't have that anymore — so this class is my attempt to rebuild a piece of it.

I've trained through Lamaze International and DONA International, with additional training in safe babywearing and lactation education for doulas. Before becoming a doula I spent years in strategy and senior leadership, and I'm a certified Life and Mindset Coach — which is why I teach the way I do: turning the Canadian guidelines and the research behind them into something you can actually use.

What makes this different

Group, and fully in person.

Most Montreal childbirth classes and prenatal classes are private, one-on-one, and booked on demand. This one is a live monthly group — the same three sessions, the same room, the same small group of people preparing alongside you.

Recovery gets its own session — not a footnote.

Your body spends nine months growing and rearranging itself for birth. That doesn't undo itself overnight — it takes a full fourth trimester to work through. Here, recovery gets a full session of its own: healing timelines for vaginal and cesarean birth, the pelvic floor and diastasis recti realities almost nobody prepares you for, warning signs, and who to call.

Postpartum isn't an afterthought — it's a third of the curriculum.

The last thing we want is for you to spend months preparing for labor, then get handed a newborn a few days later — exhausted, and expected to just figure out feeding, rest, and recovery on your own. We prepare you for what comes after birth, not just for birth itself.

Evidence-based, and genuinely impartial.

Every session is grounded in Health Canada and SOGC guidelines. We show you the options — medical and non-medical, all of them — and the decision stays yours.

Hands-on, never performance-pressured.

Comfort measures and positions are demonstrated live by your instructor. Trying them yourself is always optional, never expected.

One price, everything included

Here's what you get for $450

The full three-session series.

Labour & delivery, birth recovery, and preparing for parenthood — nine hours of live, in-person teaching in a small group.

  • Come back for free — sit in on a future cohort at no charge, any time a seat is open.
  • Your childbirth plan, built for you — a guided digital tool that walks you through it.
  • Your postpartum plan, included — the same guided format, for the weeks after baby arrives.
Reserve your spot for 19 September 2026

Prefer to start smaller? Our Understanding Labor mini-class is a shorter, self-paced way to begin.

From parents who've taken it

Placeholder testimonial — a short, specific note about what changed after taking the class.
Sarah, September cohort
Placeholder testimonial — a line about feeling prepared for recovery, not just for labour.
Maya, October cohort
Placeholder testimonial — a partner's perspective on learning comfort measures together.
Jordan, October cohort

Questions parents ask

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6 spots left in the 19 September 2026 cohort — reserve your spot.

Questions? Contact us — we're happy to help.