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Coastal Birth Services- Helping families have better births since 1993.

09/19/2025

Coastal Birth Services is hosting Class 1 of our Free Childbirth Education Series at the Schoolhouse in West Ashley (720 Magnolia Rd, Charleston, SC 29407) next Thursday, September 25th at 6:30 pm.

This may be the most important class of the whole 6 class series that we teach, because it talks about the things that you can and need to do daily and weekly to keep your pregnancy low risk. Keeping you and your baby healthy and low risk expands your birth options, which helps you to have a better birth. As a midwife, I prefer to see people take class one earlier in their pregnancy, and then join in for classes two through six a little closer to labor, so they are fresh in your mind.

Our class series is consumer-based and designed to teach physiological childbirth with the goal of improving birth and breast-feeding outcomes. It is taught by highly experienced birth workers motivated to help families have better births.

A yoga mat or blanket and a pillow or two could be helpful, but isn’t strictly necessary. This class is free to all, and anyone can attend. Husbands/ Partners and Doulas are encouraged to participate. Grandparents, Sisters and Friends are welcome too. We welcome reasonably behaved children- it is a big space. 🙂

Our next series will be held November through January, but you can get a headstart on making good choices for your pregnancy now.

We look forward to seeing you there!

06/19/2025

Most of the research on circumcision tends to focus on the impacts it has during the first year of life—but what about the rest of it?

A Danish study has found that circumcised children are over three times more likely to be hospitalized for urinary tract issues later in childhood compared to those left intact.

🔍 Key Findings:

Circumcised children had 3.5x higher risk of UTI-related hospital visits.

Circumcised children were 16-26 times more likely to develop meatal stenosis than intact children under the age of ten.

Researchers reviewed over 800,000 boys born in Denmark between 1977–2013.

The risk increase was most dramatic after the first year of life.

This challenges a long-standing claim that circumcision reduces UTI risk. The science says otherwise.

📖 Full article here:
https://www.sciencenordic.com/childrens-health-circumcision-denmark/male-circumcision-greatly-increases-risk-of-urinary-tract-problems/1441376

👶 Your Whole Baby is committed to sharing the facts so you can make informed, compassionate decisions. Every child deserves to stay whole.

04/02/2025

Coastal Birth Services’ FREE Childbirth Education series begins again on April 3rd at Seacoast Church’s West Ashley campus, and will run every first and third (and one fifth) Thursday evening through June with the exception of April 17th.

This class is consumer-based, designed to teach physiological childbirth with the goal of improving birth outcomes. It is taught by highly experienced birth workers motivated to help families have better births.

April 3- Class 1- Culture, Consumerism and Pregnancy Basics
May 1- Class 2- First Stage Labor
May 15- Class 3- Second and Third Stage Labor
May 29- Class 4- Variations and Unexpected Situations
June 5 - Class 5- Labor Rehersal- fun!
June 19- Postpartum and Your New Baby

Our venue is Seacoast Church West Ashely, 2049 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, 29407. We meet 6:30-8:30pm in The Warehouse. (Once you enter the front foyer, make a left towards the hallway and a right down the hall. Continue past the bathrooms to the last room on the far left: the Warehouse.)

A yoga mat or blanket and a pillow or two could be helpful, but isn’t strictly necessary. This class is free to all, and anyone can attend. Husbands/ Partners and Doulas are encouraged to participate. Grandparents, Sisters and Friends are welcome too. We welcome reasonably behaved children- it is a big space. 🙂

Please text or call before you leave your home, if you are coming from far away, in case there is has to be a cancellation due to a birth.

08/27/2024

Coastal Birth Services’ FREE Childbirth Education series begins again on September 5 at Seacoast Church’ West Ashley campus, and will run every first and third Thursday evening through November.

This class is consumer-based, designed to teach physiological childbirth with the goal of improving birth outcomes. It is taught by highly experienced birth workers motivated to help families have better births.

September 5- Class 1- Culture, Consumerism and Pregnancy Basics
September 19- Class 2- First Stage Labor
October 3- Class 3- Second and Third Stage Labor
October 17- Class 4- Variations and Unexpected Situations
November 7- Class 5- Labor Rehersal- fun!
November 21- Postpartum and Your New Baby

Our venue is Seacoast Church West Ashely, 2049 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, 29407. We meet 6:30-8:30pm in The Warehouse. (Once you enter the front foyer, make a left towards the hallway and a right down the hall. Continue past the bathrooms to the last room on the far left: the Warehouse.)

A yoga mat or blanket and a pillow or two could be helpful, but isn’t strictly necessary. This class is free to all, and anyone can attend. Husbands/ Partners and Doulas are encouraged to participate. Grandparents, Sisters and Friends are welcome too. We welcome reasonably behaved children- it is a big space. 🙂

Attend whichever classes you can. You can always come back to make classes up in the next series starting in January.

05/19/2024

Free Childbirth Education 😊

Birth Bound Childbirth Education Classes will be 2nd and 4th Thursdays in June, July and August. Class 1- Pregnancy Need-to-Knows: Introduction to Consumer-based Care, Nutrition, Exercise and Relaxation Techniques is June 13th.

Yes, we did shift weeks for the summer to avoid July 4th and VBS.

Our venue is Seacoast Church West Ashely, 2049 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, 29407. We will meet 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm in the Warehouse Room. (Once you enter the front foyer, make a left towards the hallway and a right down the hall. Continue past the bathrooms to the last room on the far left: the Warehouse.)

As usual- a yoga mat or blanket and a pillow or two could be helpful, but isn’t strictly necessary. This class is free to all, and anyone can attend. Husbands/ Partners and Doulas are encouraged to participate. Grandparents, Sisters and Friends are welcome.

Please text or call before you leave your home, if you are coming from far away, in case there is has to be a cancellation due to a birth.

05/04/2024

What a perfectly lovely birth yesterday! 💕

This mama patiently waited a full 10 days past her due date to allow her baby to finish cooking. Well over 9 lbs. Very tight cord around baby’s neck- but all was fine. There are so many needless fears surrounding birth. Of course not every birth is perfect, but women are strong, and birth is as safe as life gets.

03/23/2024

What a delightful and beautiful thing! There were a dozen couples at my childbirth class this week, and two of the pregnant moms were once babies that I caught forever ago. It is crazy to imagine that the eggs that turned into these new pregnancies were already formed as these amazing young women came fresh into the world and into my hands. 🥰

I'm not gonna lie- I teared up a couple times as I was teaching, just admiring the young mothers they are becoming and appreciating how lucky I am.

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