WellPregnancy :: About the Trainer

Making the decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try. - David Bainbridge

The choice is not between anesthesia and unremitting agony. One is not asked to lie in a hospital bed and . . . bite a bullet and suffer. . . Natural childbirth advocates would also say that the perception of the laboring woman as a patient with a medical problem on par with an impacted molar is exactly what has always ... been wrong with medicine’s view of childbirth. – Sandra Steingraber

Contact information:
Julie Brill, CCCE, CLD
781-275-6564

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About the Trainer

Julie Brill, CCCE, CLD has been teaching childbirth classes since 1992 and mentoring childbirth educators as a member of the CAPPA faculty since 2003. She graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Sociology and Women's Studies and completed the Massachusetts Midwifery Alliance Apprenticeship Course. A certified childbirth educator with CAPPA and ALACE, Julie has also attended births as a midwifery apprentice and labor doula. Her perinatal articles have appeared in Midwifery Today, hip Mama, ePregnancy, Spirit of Change, The Boston Parents' Paper B.A.B.Y. edition, Parenting from the Heart, Special Delivery Magazine, and the CAPPA Quarterly.

Julie loves working with birthing families. In her classes, she strives to provide accurate information and tools so each birthing woman can choose the birth that is best for her. Julie believes birth is a normal, natural event with the potential to be extremely empowering. She is the home schooling mom of two daughters, ages fourteen and ten. She and her daughters love exploring the natural world, crafting, baking and eating chocolate chip cookies, and enjoying books together. Julie likes to read, especially historical fiction, knit, spin, travel, cross country ski, horseback ride, hike, garden and kayak. She and her family share their home with a Golden Retriever and their yard with dairy goats.

"I very much enjoyed my childbirth class with Julie. It was a great chance for me to learn more about pregnancy and childbirth. It was the one time each week where I could really focus on my pregnancy, my baby, and what was to come. Most of us who took the class together have stayed in touch and that has been a tremendous support system for me."
-Amy L., Mom and Former Childbirth Student

"Julie has been an excellent childbirth educator in our community for many years. I have referred my patients to her whenever possible. She's passionate about birth, and caring not just for her own clientele but for the community as a whole."
Natasha Hawke, Midwife