When you need smart, current information for your life stage or condition, PAMF can help. Our Health Education division offers interactive classes led by medical experts who clearly and compassionately share the latest news you need. View our class offerings in prenatal and postpartum, stress reduction, behavior change, and disease management.
Prenatal and New Parenting Classes
Pregnancy is an exciting time, full of physical and emotional changes. When you’re expecting a baby, you and your partner may have questions about these transformations as well as the upcoming birth and postpartum period. Being well-informed and prepared will give you the confidence to create a calmer and more satisfying pregnancy, labor and birth.
PAMF offers a variety of classes to help expectant couples prepare for and feel more confident about pregnancy and parenthood.
- We offer Childbirth Preparation Classes and Prenatal Yoga at different times and in various formats so you can choose what best fits your schedule and goals.
- Your ability to keep yourself healthy — body, mind and spirit — is essential to the well-being of your growing family. Our postpartum classes and support groups can help you gain the skills you need to feel confident and to smoothly transition into parenthood.
- In-person and online breastfeeding classes will teach you strategies to get breastfeeding off to a solid start. Lactation consultants can help with the mechanics of breastfeeding, breastfeeding problems and return-to-work issues. They can also help you interpret the baby’s signals and reconcile conflicting information on baby care and breastfeeding.
- Baby care classes help you know what to expect in those first weeks after baby's arrival. Baby Basics and Safety classes cover topics ranging from hands-on practices to buying safe nursery and home equipment.
Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Classes
Research shows that mindfulness techniques can help alleviate anxiety, stress and depression. PAMF has a variety of mindfulness offerings, including our core eight-week, formal Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) series, as well as Midafternoon Meditation and Free Gentle Yoga. For those interested in MBSR, a free orientation session is held a week or so before the beginning of the next class if you would like to learn more before joining.
Change can be challenging. Let us help! Our team of health coaches can help you create a personalized plan for effective action, identify barriers to success, gain confidence in your ability to improve your health, and provide you with evidence-based skills for successful behavior change.
Learning more about a chronic condition and then making changes to improve your health can be challenging. Let us help! Our Educator/Coaches teach evidence-based classes on Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, Prediabetes/Diabetes and Asthma. Our team will help you better understand your condition so you can better control and manage your symptoms.
