What Is Brio Birth

Brio Birth Childbirth classes offer the perfect mix of time-honored traditions and cutting edge research to empower 21st century moms to give birth with confidence.  Brio Birth is made up of a team of top childbirth educators and birth professionals - with hundreds of years of combined birth experience they continually design and update our comprehensive Brio Birth Educational System.

Brio Birth ensures that mothers and their birth partners have access to the best childbirth education in the world and that they are well prepared for labor and birth. Your childbirth classes will teach you how to stay healthy throughout your pregnancy and to prepare your body for the big day. You and your birth partner will learn how to work as a team to help you cope with the sensations of labor. Brio Birth will help you learn about the benefits of natural childbirth and why it is healthiest option for most mothers and babies. At the same time, you will also be well educated about common medications and procedures so that you can make informed choices in every potential situation.

You will be led by your Brio Birth Educator through an intensive labor rehearsal so that you will develop your own strategies for labor. Because you can never know for sure how labor will go, you will be prepared for long labor, short labor, and the many variations that can occur along the way. It is the goal of the Brio Birth educator for you to be well equipped for whatever course your labor may take.

Since birth is only the beginning, you will learn newborn care and breastfeeding techniques. Brio Birth Classes will teach you what to expect during the weeks and months after birth for both you and your baby. Your Brio Birth Educator is a highly trained professional who will be available to answer your questions, address your concerns, and calm your fears about labor, birth and motherhood.

Brio Birth exists to make birth safer for every mother, baby, family and community in the world. Here at Brio Birth we see a world where mothers, families, communities and professionals look forward to birth with hope and confidence rather than fear and scepticism. Birth is and can be an empowering and wonderful event that can heal many of the wounds our worldwide culture shares. We call on everyone to join us in being a part of this healing process.

By creating a series of resources delivered by well-trained educators and via online education, we will become the most trusted, researched, and comprehensive source for expectant mothers, their families, and birth teams.

Why Brio Birth? What does it mean and how does it fit with what we do? Brio is most often connected to the Italian use and origin meaning liveliness or vigor. What many do not know is that it can be traced back further to the Latin inspired Celtic meaning power, strength, honor, dignity, and many more adjectives along these same lines. Interestingly we can trace the lineage of Brio back even further to the Greek root of the word, meaning embrion or embryo in English, it is composed of en: inside and brio: sprout or offspring an interesting meaning to be sure.Today it is used in music as a descriptive term, to play con brio or to play with vigor and passion.

When we here at Brio Birth began looking for a way to describe how we wanted to live, work, teach and learn  this background and meaning not only made sense but gave voice and a name to how we feel. We want to live with Brio!