Lamaze International and Plumtree Baby: New Co-Branded Childbirth Education Tools
Lamaze International has teamed up with Plumtree Baby LLC to create a fresh line of co-branded materials for parents and childbirth educators. By pairing Lamaze’s trusted Healthy Birth Practices with Plumtree Baby’s modern, educator-focused designs, we are making high-quality, evidence-based resources easier to access and share. Together we aim to give families the knowledge and confidence they need for a safe, healthy, and respectful birth—an essential step toward improving maternal health in the United States.
Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators have access to an extensive bank of teaching tools. Take advantage of this exclusive benefit by exploring tools that can help develop and enhance your practice.
NEW! Navigating Pregnancy & Birth - Your Lamaze Curriculum
Navigating Pregnancy & Birth - Your Lamaze Curriculum, a powerful new tool for course development, teaching strategies, lesson plans and more.
Childbirth educators can plan with confidence using this comprehensive tool packed with teaching strategies, flexible 8-hour lesson plans, and over 20 engaging activities, streamlining course development for impactful classes. This resource is perfect for newly trained or newly certified educators.
Key features:
- Flexible lesson plans for an 8-hour course, including discussion prompts and activities.
- Covers all Lamaze Essential Content in an easy-to-use digital format.
- Coordinates with the parent guidebook and PowerPoint.
- Flexible and customizable to fit your teaching style.
Price: $329 (digital), $419 (digital/print)
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NEW! PowerPoint: Navigating Pregnancy & Birth
The Navigating Pregnancy & Birth PowerPoint was created to help Lamaze educators lead group classes with confidence by providing engaging visual aids and course structure.
The 157-slide PowerPoint features essential concepts with vibrant visuals and structured slides. Aligned with Lamaze’s 6 Healthy Birth Practices, this presentation enhances educators' classes with modern graphics and discussion prompts for impactful and engaging instruction.
Key Features:
- Includes slides for teaching pregnancy, labor & birth, interventions, variations, comfort measures, postpartum, newborn care and basic breastfeeding.
- Perfect for virtual or in person classes (cannot be used in recorded classes).
- High-resolution images and modern design.
- Can be adjusted to meet your class needs (slides added, rearranged, hidden, etc.)
Price: $345
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NEW! Parent Guidebook: Navigating Pregnancy & Birth
Support parents during class and beyond with this trusted, full-color guidebook. Covering labor, comfort measures, postpartum, newborn care, and breastfeeding, it empowers parents for a confident, informed birth journey.
Key features:
- Comprehensive content for pregnancy, birth and beyond.
- Promotes the 6 Health Birth Practices and includes advertisement for the TOMY Toys (Amazon Store).
- Modern visuals with inclusive, diverse representation.
- Easy-to-read format for all expectant parents.
Price: $12.85 on plumtreebaby.com ($17.95 on Amazon). Bulk pricing tiers for quantities of 10, 50, 250 or 1000 (price range $8.95 to $11.70)
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NEW! Lamaze Starter Package: All three resources in a cost-saving bundle
Our Lamaze Starter Package bundles all the resources you'll need to plan, teach, and support with confidence. Launch your classes using Your Lamaze Curriculum’s 8-hour lesson plans and 20+ activities, show key points and vibrant visuals with the Navigating Pregnancy & Birth PowerPoint, and provide ongoing support for parents with the engaging Navigating Pregnancy & Birth Parent Guidebook.
Key Features:
- User-friendly, out-of-the-box and cost saving bundle.
- Fully integrated class planning and teaching tools.
- Diverse, engaging visual aids with a copy of the parent guidebook
Price: $646 (digital curriculum)-$724 (digital/print curriculum)
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6 Healthy Birth Practices eBooklet
A 24-page electronic workbook for parents to consider the evidence supporting the Six Healthy Birth Practices and note their personal preferences for a safe, healthy birth. Educators may opt to include a copy of this eBooklet for parents as part of the class fee.
The eBooklet is available in English and Spanish.
Single-user pricing:
Lamaze Member: $105 | Non-Member: $155
Small Business Member*: $210 | Small Business Non-Member*: $315
Organization, Institution or Hospital*: $420
*A small business is defined as a group of 2-10 perinatal professionals working for a company or organization. An organization, institution or hospital is defined as 11 or more perinatal professionals.
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Infographic Handouts
Our infographic handouts lay out the facts in an easy-to-understand, memorable way. Consider ordering printed poster or tear-pad versions that you can use in class or distribute to parents. Available in English and Spanish.
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Lamaze Posters and Tear-Pads
Purchase any of the infographic handouts as a poster or a tear-out! Simply visit the Lamaze Printing Storefront to select your preferred format!
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Poster Pricing
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Tear-Pad Pricing |
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1 poster: $38
2 posters: $76
3 posters: $114
4 posters: $152
5 posters: $190
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1 pad (50 sheets): $16.50
2 pads (100 sheets): $33.00
3 pads (150 sheets): $49.50
4 pads (200 sheets): $66.00
5 pads (250 sheets): $82.50
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Activity Database
The Activity Database is an online, searchable repository of 100+ activities and teaching ideas that you can use to build or refresh your childbirth education curriculum. The database includes interactive icebreakers, handouts, demonstrations, and other activities. Search the database by activity type, curriculum topic, or keyword. View a tutorial of the Activity Database.
Introductory Pricing (for two years of access):
Members: $109 | Non-members: $159
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Curriculum Resources
Lamaze offers a collection of helpful resources specially developed to help you enhance your Lamaze classes and teaching skills. Explore our collection of 16 resources, ranging from a sample lesson plan and template to evaluation forms, surveys, and more!
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Birthing and VBAC Dolls by Mamamor
MamAmor dolls are powerful tools for birth and breastfeeding educators that can demonstrate birth, breastfeeding and babywearing in an educational, fun, and non-intimidating way.
A variety of birth and breastfeeding positions and presentations of baby can be demonstrated. Some examples include: Natural birth at home/hospital/birthing center, VBAC birth, Cesarean birth, water birth, twins birth, OP presentation, and breech presentation. View the MamAmor Dolls info sheet.
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Video Library
Explore Lamaze’s extensive video library, featuring a wide range of resources for both educators and new or expectant parents. Our videos offer valuable tips, practical advice, and essential information to support you throughout the childbirth journey.
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Blended Learning with Online Lamaze Classes
You can create your own “flipped classroom” with our online courses for parents. Learners gain an understanding of the Six Healthy Birth Practices, comfort measures, breastfeeding, and other Essential Content on their own time, and then come together in the virtual or physical classroom to expand on the topics and practice!
Want more information? Marjaana Siivola presented “Flipped Learning and Online Flipped Learning in Childbirth Education” at the Lamaze 2023 Education Symposium. Watch her session for guidance on how to use a flipped classroom in childbirth education settings.
Lamaze Continuing Education
The Lamaze Learning Center has on-demand courses aimed to grow your skills as an educator. Use the “Pedagogy” filter to search for courses related to curriculum design, the psychology of learning, addressing parents’ fears in the classroom, and more.