The months, weeks and days preceding your baby's birth will be an exciting, joyful time filled with many physical and emotional changes. This is a natural time for you to learn more about pregnancy, childbirth and parenting.
The BirthPlace offers a comprehensive educational program to help improve your birthing experience and ease your transition to parenthood. Our program includes a variety of prenatal and postpartum classes for you, your partner or support person, your other children, grandparents and/or other relatives, depending on the topic. Topics include childbirth preparation, breast-feeding, baby care, infant CPR and safety, and parenting support. This page contains an overview of our tour and classes. Unless otherwise indicated, the classes require registration. You can bring one support person with you to your classes. See our class schedule, register and pay for classes. For questions regarding tours and classes, call (424) 259-8253. (Classes are held at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica)