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Pre-Baby Couples Intensive

In Oregon

|Postpartum Planning

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You have probably spent months preparing for the birth and making sure your baby will have everything they need.

You may still feel completely unsure about what happens when you come home.

How will you know if your mental health is changing?

What should your partner pay attention to?

How will you divide nights, household responsibilities, visitors, and care for the baby?

What happens when one of you returns to work?

How will you communicate when you are both exhausted and neither of you feels like you has anything left to give?

The Pre-Baby Couples Intensive helps you have these conversations now, while you still have the time and energy to make a thoughtful plan together.

Think of it like premarital counseling for the transition into parenthood.

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Your plan will be based on your real life, not an ideal version of postpartum.

During the prenatal intensive, we will create a working document that covers the areas most likely to affect your family.

❋ Mental health and emotional well-being

We will identify your mental health history, personal risk factors, early warning signs, current providers, and the steps you want your partner to take if something begins to feel different.

❋ Sleep and recovery

We will talk about how to protect meaningful periods of rest, divide nighttime responsibilities, support physical recovery, and adjust the plan when one partner returns to work.

❋ Your support system

We will identify who is available, what kind of help each person can realistically offer, where support is still missing, and which professional resources you may want arranged before birth.

❋ Your relationship and shared responsibilities

We will talk through communication, household tasks, feeding support, the mental load, work expectations, and how each of you wants to be supported when you are tired or overwhelmed.

❋ Visitors and family boundaries

You will create a shared plan for hospital visitors, help at home, grandparents, in-laws, privacy, advice, and how you will communicate boundaries as a team.

You may already know that postpartum could be a vulnerable time.

Perhaps you or your partner have a history of:

  • Anxiety or panic attacks

  • Depression

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

  • Bipolar disorder

  • Intrusive thoughts

  • Trauma or post-traumatic stress

  • Difficulties with sleep

  • Previous postpartum depression or anxiety

  • A traumatic birth or pregnancy loss

  • Major emotional changes during pregnancy

You may be managing well right now and still know that pregnancy, birth, disrupted sleep, hormonal changes, or the pressure of caring for a baby could affect you.

However, waiting to see what happens does not feel reassuring. You want your partner to understand what your symptoms can look like.

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You can absolutely love each other and still underestimate how much a baby will change the relationship.

The two of you may have different pictures of what postpartum life will look like.

One person may expect nighttime responsibilities to be shared. The other may be thinking about an early return to work and how they will function the next morning.

One person may want family nearby every day. The other may want privacy, quiet, and time to recover.

One of you may show care by solving problems. The other may need emotional reassurance and someone who can listen without immediately offering an answer.

When these expectations remain unspoken, both people can enter postpartum believing their partner understands what they need.

The service includes three appointments for both partners and a personalized postpartum wellness document that develops with your family.

2-hour Prenatal Intensive

Typically scheduled between 30 and 33 weeks of pregnancy

Before the appointment, you will each complete a questionnaire about your mental health, relationship, support system, work plans, family dynamics, and concerns about postpartum.

During the session, we will assess expectations, identify areas that need more conversation, and begin completing your personalized plan.

Please note: The timing can be adjusted based on your pregnancy, due date, and availability.

60-minute early postpartum session

Usually scheduled during the first two weeks after birth

This appointment gives us space to talk about what postpartum actually feels like.

We can check in on mood, sleep, recovery, bonding, feeding stress, relationship dynamics, visitors, and whether the support you arranged is working.

We can also make room for your birth experience, especially if something felt frightening, disappointing, confusing, or outside your control.

The exact date will depend on your delivery and recovery.

60-minute postpartum follow-up

Scheduled around the transition that needs the most support

This may happen as visitors begin leaving, sleep deprivation builds, or one partner prepares to return to work.

We will revisit your plan, address new concerns, and make decisions about any ongoing support your family may need.

Please note: This intensive does not replace ongoing therapy, psychiatric treatment, medication management, or medical care

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Starting the intensive can be simple.

In this 20 min free call, you can share where you are in your pregnancy, what you are most concerned about, and what you hope to have in place before your baby arrives.

I will answer your questions and explain how the intensive works. Both partners are encouraged to attend the consultation, but not required.

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Before the prenatal intensive, each partner will complete a questionnaire separately.

The questions will help you reflect on your mental health, relationship, family experiences, support system, work plans, and expectations for postpartum.

Your responses help us find the conversations that need attention before the baby arrives.

Complete your questionnaires

We will meet virtually and build your personalized postpartum wellness and relationship plan.

I will guide the conversation, help you compare expectations, provide education about postpartum mental health, and help you identify support that needs to be arranged.

Attend your two-hour prenatal intensive

We will meet for two one-hour postpartum appointments.

These sessions allow us to adjust the plan around your real experience, address concerns early, and support both your relationship and mental health as you settle into parenthood.

Reconnect after your baby arrives

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    -Shardé Werth, LPC

  • "Kaitlyn brings such vision to her work with mothers. Her experience as a mother, her clinical background, and her passion for supporting moms on the journey is the best combination!"

    -Debbie Nicholls, LPC

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Investment

$750

The Pre-Baby Couples Intensive includes:

  • One 2-hour prenatal planning appointment

  • Two 60-minute postpartum appointments

  • Separate pre-intensive questionnaires for both partners

  • A personalized postpartum mental health and relationship plan

  • Educational resources and individualized support recommendations

  • Updates to your working plan after the baby arrives

Payment may be divided across the three appointments.

A private-pay specialty service

The Pre-Baby Couples Intensive is offered as a private-pay package and is not submitted to insurance. Superbills are not provided for this service.

The intensive combines preventive postpartum planning, relationship preparation, mental health education, personalized resources, and a customized working document. These parts of the service do not fit neatly within standard insurance-based psychotherapy.

HSA or FSA cards may be accepted, although clients should confirm eligibility directly with their plan.

Questions You May Be Asking

  • The intensive can be especially helpful if a previous postpartum experience involved depression, anxiety, OCD symptoms, birth trauma, limited support, relationship strain, or a transition that felt much harder than expected.

    We can use what you learned from that experience to prepare differently this time.

  • No. You may have a strong relationship and simply want to communicate early about the changes ahead.

    The intensive can also support couples who already notice differences around family boundaries, work, household responsibilities, or expectations of parenthood.

  • You can still participate.

    The intensive can complement your existing care by helping you and your partner organize your postpartum support plan.

    With appropriate written permission, collaboration with members of your treatment team may be considered when clinically helpful. Medication decisions and medical recommendations remain between you and your prescribing or medical providers.

  • No.

    Some couples choose the intensive because anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar disorder, trauma, or a difficult previous postpartum experience is already part of their story.

    Others simply want to feel more prepared before the baby arrives.

    You do not need to wait until you are worried something will go wrong. The intensive can help you understand what postpartum may bring, strengthen communication with your partner, identify support early, and create a clear plan for your family before you are trying to figure everything out while exhausted.

  • That is okay for the consult call.

    However, this particular service is designed as a couples intensive because shared communication and planning are central to the work.

    Both partners should plan to attend the prenatal session and the two postpartum appointments.

  • This service focuses on parental mental health, relationship preparation, support, sleep, boundaries, communication, and the transition home.

    It does not replace medical care, childbirth education, newborn-care instruction, or lactation support.

You can’t control every part of postpartum, but you can enter it knowing what to watch for and what you will do next.

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