Classes & Events
Whether you are preparing for birth or looking for connection and support, Lavender Honey Stories offers evidence-based education and community-centered experiences to help you feel informed and supported.
Private Childbirth Education
Prepare for birth with confidence.
A personalized, evidence-based childbirth class designed to help expecting parents understand the birth process, explore their options, and prepare for labor, delivery, and early postpartum.
This private four-hour class is taught in the comfort of your home and provides practical, unbiased education to help you feel informed and empowered as you prepare to welcome your baby.
Together, we'll explore topics such as:
- The stages of labor and what to expect
- Comfort measures and natural pain management techniques
- Medical interventions and informed decision-making
- Partner support and hands-on comfort techniques
- Creating a flexible birth plan
- Labor positions and movement
- Hospital procedures and what to pack
- The first hours after birth and early postpartum
- Newborn care and feeding basics
Whether you're planning an unmedicated birth, an epidural, or a cesarean birth, this class will help you understand your options and prepare for the unexpected with confidence.
Investment: $325
Includes: One private 4-hour childbirth education class
- Evidence-based instruction
- Personalized discussion and Q&A
- Digital resource guide
- Metro Atlanta in-home instruction (virtual option available upon request)
Birth Stories & Books
A community space for stories, connection, and reflection.
Birth Stories & Books is a free community gathering where stories, books, and meaningful conversations come together.
Whether you're expecting a baby, navigating postpartum, supporting families as a birth worker, or simply enjoy reading about pregnancy, birth, motherhood, and family, you're welcome here.
Hosted by a trained birth doula, each gathering offers a warm, judgment-free space to connect over tea, discover thoughtfully curated book recommendations, and engage in honest conversations about the many experiences of becoming and being a parent.
Conversations may explore topics such as:
- Birth experiences and birth stories
- Preparing for labor and birth
- Navigating pregnancy and postpartum questions
- Building a supportive community
- Books that inspire, educate, and comfort
- Open conversation and Q&A with a birth doula
No matter where you are on your journey, you'll find a welcoming community where every story is valued and every voice is heard.
Suggested Reading for Pregnancy & Postpartum
These foundational texts offer context, history, and practical guidance for understanding birth, postpartum recovery, and the systems that shape maternal care.
The Birth Partner
A grounded guide for partners and support people navigating labor, offering practical tools for presence, advocacy, and care during birth.
Birthing Justice
Centers reproductive justice and birth equity while naming the systemic disparities that shape Black maternal health outcomes.
The First Forty Days
Explores postpartum recovery through rest, nourishment, and intentional care in the earliest weeks after birth.
Mothering the Mother
A reflection on community care and the importance of centering the mother’s needs in the postpartum period.
Medical Apartheid
A powerful historical account of medical racism in the United States, offering essential context for understanding present-day maternal health disparities.
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
A foundational guide to breastfeeding that centers responsive feeding, early challenges, and the emotional landscape of postpartum adjustment.
Explore the Lavender Honey Stories Library to engage with the themes that shape these events through curated fiction and storytelling.
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