Build confidence for a safe and healthy birth

Get empowered to make the best decisions for you

Safe & Healthy Birth philosophy

Parents can play an active role in making decisions that align with their goals throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. Safe & Healthy Birth courses include evidence-based best practices, shared decision making techniques, and insights from mindfulness and Judaism.

Get the facts

The evidence-based Lamaze 6 Healthy Birth Practices are at the core of Safe & Healthy Birth courses.

Be heard

Learn ways to communicate with your health care team to make the best decisions for your family.

Prepare coping tools

Apply mindfulness techniques to cope with labor pain and parenting challenges.

Connect to tradition

Courses are perfect for Jewish parents who want to bring their whole selves to the experience.

Nice to meet you!

I'm Yael, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator.

I moved from the US to Israel in 2007. I took my first Lamaze course when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter in 2012. I found it so empowering that I wanted to pay it forward and certified as a Lamaze educator when I was pregnant with my son in 2017.

Right now, alongside teaching childbirth education courses, I'm studying to be a midwife.

I live in Carmei Gat, Israel, with my husband, three kids and a dog.

Safe & Healthy Birth courses with Yael

Online Lamaze course

Meet virtually for 90 minutes, once a week for 4 weeks on Sunday mornings Eastern Time. Maximum of 6 couples. Recommended in your second trimester, with your partner. See the topics we'll cover on the Courses page.

Crash course

Didn't take a course and already nearing your due date? This course was designed for you. We'll skip pregnancy content and focus on labor and early parenting.

Meet for 2, 2-hour sessions on Thursdays or Fridays. Maximum of 6 couples, online or in-person. Can also be taken privately.

In-person Lamaze course

Meet in Yael's home in Carmei Gat for 2 hours (with breaks :) once a week for 4 weeks on Friday mornings Israel Time. Maximum of 6 couples. Recommended in your second trimester, with your partner. See the topics we'll cover on the Courses page.

Refresher course

Regardless of whether you took a course during a previous pregnancy, this one is perfect during a second pregnancy or beyond. Embrace the mindfulness principle of Beginner's Mind; after all, it's this baby's first time being born and you are a different person than before. Process what worked for you and what you'd like to go differently this time. Get tools for helping older siblings adjust. And revisit tools for pain management.