Newborn Care Workshop
With Janine Garb
What to Expect
A Hands-On Newborn Care & Fourth-Trimester Workshop
You’ve prepared for birth. Now let’s prepare for what happens when you bring your baby home.
Workshop gives growing families the practical skills, realistic expectations, and trusted support they need for the newborn weeks. You’ll practice essential baby-care skills using dolls and real supplies, learn how to recognize and respond to your baby’s cues, and create a plan that supports the entire family—not only the baby.
Hands-on practice includes:
Holding, carrying, and handling a newborn
Diapering and understanding what you may find in the diaper
Bathing and basic skin care
Umbilical cord care
Dressing baby comfortably
Swaddling safely
Using common newborn-care supplies
Deciding what your family actually needs—and what you can skip
Because caring for a newborn isn’t about knowing everything. It’s about understanding what you’re seeing, feeling confident in the basics, and knowing where to turn when you need support.
You’ll Leave With
Hands-on experience with essential newborn-care skills
A clearer understanding of newborn cues and behavior
Realistic expectations for feeding, sleep, and soothing
A practical plan for sharing care and protecting recovery
Trusted resources for common questions and concerns
A personalized postpartum support map
More confidence—not because you’ll know everything, but because you’ll know how to respond, adapt, and ask for help
Workshop isn’t about becoming a perfect parent before your baby arrives.
It’s about developing the practical skills, supportive roots, and confidence to grow together.
Meet the Facilitator
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Janine Garb
Janine is a postpartum doula, mother of two, and the founder of Post & Past Doula Care. Her passion for supporting new families grew from her own experience navigating the often-overlooked realities of postpartum. She knows firsthand that while birth is a single day, becoming a parent is a lifelong transition.
Through compassionate, evidence-informed education, Janine helps families feel more prepared for life with a newborn while honoring the emotional, physical, and relational changes that come with welcoming a baby. She believes babies thrive when parents feel supported, confident, and connected, and that partners play an essential role in that journey.
As the facilitator of Seedlings Newborn Care, Janine combines practical newborn care with real-life experience, creating a welcoming space where parents can ask questions, build confidence, and discover that they don't have to figure it all out alone.
Janine lives in the East Bay with her growing family and is honored to walk alongside parents during one of life's most transformative seasons.