Swedish Medical Center offers classes to help parents prepare for taking care of a newborn.

All About Baby

This one-time class specifically addresses those first uncertain weeks at home with your newborn. You will become familiar with characteristics of normal newborn behavior and appearance, feeding and sleeping cues and patterns, and needs. We will discuss what you do and do not need to buy, choosing a pediatrician, how to calm a crying baby and time management. Additionally, hands-on practice diapering, bathing and swaddling baby are included.

Registration: Call 1-866-7SWEDISH (1-866-779-3347) or use ONLINE CLASS REGISTRATION.

Baby Safe

This comprehensive, three-and-a-half-hour class helps prepare parents to keep baby safe. Important issues to be discussed include accident prevention (poison, fire, water, vehicle), how to baby proof your home, and how to recognize when baby is sick and when to call the doctor. Basic first aid and infant CPR/choking are taught and practiced (no certification is provided). Very basic car seat safety information is included. This is a class you cannot afford to miss!

Registration: Call 1-866-7SWEDISH (1-866-779-3347) or use ONLINE CLASS REGISTRATION.

Baby Talk (Dunstan Baby Language and HUG (Hug Your Baby))

This class is a combination class of Dunstan Baby Language and HUG (Hug Your Baby). The Dunstan System teaches you how to understand your baby's unique language by tuning your ear to the five 'words', providing settling solutions, and offering helpful advice. The program includes a take home DVD valued at $39.95.

Hug Your Baby is designed to help parents understand, prevent and solve problems around a baby's eating, sleeping and crying by encouraging parent-child attachment and bonding. This class offers a deeper understanding of techniques to enhance breastfeeding, provide adequate sleep for mom and baby, and increase a parent's ability to calm his/her baby.

Registration: Call 1-866-7SWEDISH (1-866-779-3347) or use ONLINE CLASS REGISTRATION.