Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Birthing Your Baby
Birthing Your Baby is a class series focusing on pregnancy warning signs, labor stages/phases, hospital medical interventions, medications (including epidural), cesarean section delivery and postpartum recovery. This series is taught by a registered nurse with extensive experience as a labor and delivery nurse.
Welcome to Birthing Your Baby! This course provides a general overview of labor and delivery as well as postpartum care, but it does not include detailed content in the areas of natural childbirth techniques, baby care or breastfeeding. We offer additional classes such as Natural Moms, Just About the Baby, Comprehensive Breastfeeding and Baby, Breastfeeding & Beyond.
*A support person is encouraged to attend the classes (no additional fee). The fee includes the book, handouts and your sessions with your instructor. Classes fill-up quickly, so please plan accordingly.
If you are wanting to prepare for a 'natural' (unmedicated) childbirth experience, we recommend registering for our Natural Moms series instead of the Birthing Your Baby series. As an added bonus, the Natural Moms series includes the Birthing Center Orientation, which is a requirement for any patient who wishes to deliver in our low-risk Birth Center Suites.
*If you are an Ascension Employee, please call to request a discount code BEFORE registering for a class. We are unable to apply the discount after a registration has processed. Employees will be expected to show their employee photo ID badge upon arrival to class.
All potential patients should pre-register with the hospital online here: OBPreregistration/AscensionSaintThomasHospitalMidtown
If you have any questions, please contact us at The Family Learning Center (Monday-Friday 10 am-3 pm) at [email protected] or 615-284-6455.
In the event of inclement weather, the facility may change an in-person class session to a virtual online class (via Google Meet) or reschedule the class to another date. All class registrants will be contacted in the event a class session platform changes.
If a class is cancelled by the facility, for any reason, a full refund will be offered.
This will include book, materials, and sessions with your RN educator
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Wednesday Series FAST TRACK (2 sessions) October 14 and 21, 2026 5:00pm-8:00pm [Sold Out]
This class series will meet in person two Wednesday evenings in a row in a conference room inside Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown's surgical wing. The instructor will send you an email with parking instructions within a week of the start of your class series.Instructor: Dawn Senner RN, CCE, CLC, HCHIEmail: [email protected]
Monday Series FAST TRACK (2 weeks) November 2 & 9 2026 5:00pm-8:00pm [Sold Out]
This class series will meet in person two Monday evenings in a row in a conference room inside Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown's surgical wing. The instructor will send you an email with parking instructions within a week of the start of your class series.Instructor: Dawn Senner RN, CCE, CLC, HCHIEmail: [email protected]
Friday Series (3 weeks) December 4, 11 & 18 2026 5:00pm-7:00pm [7 remaining]
This class series will meet in person three Friday evenings in a row in a conference room inside Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown's surgical wing. The instructor will send you an email with parking instructions within a week of the start of your class series.Instructor: Dawn Senner RN, CCE, CLC, HCHIEmail: [email protected]
