{"id":395684,"date":"2025-06-20T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/?p=395684"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:13:33","slug":"pregnancy-childbirth-education-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/blog\/2025\/06\/20\/pregnancy-childbirth-education-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy &amp; Childbirth Education Classes Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community members are invited to join a free, virtual series to help prepare for childbirth. Classes will be available in English and Spanish. Support people &amp; partners are encouraged to attend!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The series will cover the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"arrow-list\">\n<li><strong>Session 1:<\/strong> Pregnancy and What To Expect, Nutrition and Exercise, Common Discomfort, Mental Health in Pregnancy, Positions for Labor, Signs and Stages of Labor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Session 2:<\/strong> Techniques For Coping With Labor, Pain Management Options, Complications in Labor, C-Sections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Session 3:<\/strong> Postpartum Care, Breastfeeding, Newborn Care, Family Adjustments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.venturacountywomenshealth.com\/childbirth-classes-obstetric-gynecologic-care-ventura-ca.html\">Click here to see a listing of class dates, times, and language.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Maria Castellon, BSN, RNC at 805-652-6090 or <a href=\"mailto:Maria.Castellon@venturacounty.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria.Castellon@venturacounty.gov<\/a>. Jodi Watson, MS, CNM, WHNP <a href=\"mailto:jodi.watson@ventura.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jodi.watson@ventura.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venturacountywomenshealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">venturacountywomenshealth.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community members are invited to join a free, virtual series to help prepare for childbirth. Classes will be available in English and Spanish. Support people &amp; partners are encouraged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":395687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-community-events","category-health-and-nutrition-community-events","category-support-for-parents-and-families-community-events"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 05:07:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}