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      • Overview
      • Cost
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      • Cost
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    • Labor Support Training
      • Cost & Schedule
      • Participants and Comments
    • Lactation Counseling
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Childbirth Education

Why?

If my body already knows how to give birth, then why should I need a class to prepare for this natural event?

Indeed, no class is needed to teach a mother’s body to make contractions. However, during the course of any labor there are many, many decisions to be made - by you! Health care today is based on Informed Consent, and it is up to you as expectant parents to become informed. Learning about the birth process, standard management, and exploring options and choices has the power to improve both, a women’s experience and the course of the actual birth events.

Studies have shown that parents who prepare well for the birth of their baby have better birth outcomes. Countless times have I heard women or their partner say about their birth ‘I wish I would have known that before - then I could have made a different choice!’ Or, in the words of Diana Korte and Roberta Scaer: ‘If you don’t know your options, you don’t have any.’

Birth memories last a lifetime. The first of many parenting decisions and the best investment you can make for yourselves and your unborn child is to take a little time out of your busy day-to- day schedules and become well prepared.

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A Personalized Approach - not a ‘Method’
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Good solid information and practical exercises will help you gain a clear understanding of labor and birth as a normal function of the female body. On this basis of knowledge, you can learn to grow trust in your ability to give birth to your baby. The process of gaining knowledge and developing trust is different for each parent; no single method of childbirth preparation can ever be suitable to every expectant family.

This is why I do not teach a pre-conceived ‘method’. Rather, I take what I call a ‘Personalized Approach’ to preparing you for the arrival of your baby. Through lecture, discussion, exercises, visual aids, and homework assignments you will become familiar with a wide selection of helpful techniques and tools to create an optimal birthing environment for you.

Birth partners learn how to provide positive emotional and physical support for the woman in labor. Breathing and relaxation are being practiced with an emphasis on a normal, natural breathing rhythm that can be supplemented with some directed patterns if the need in labor arises. Visualizations, simple massage techniques, positioning, how to use the birth ball, use of aroma therapy, and the usefulness of water in birth are all part of the curriculum. Then, when the time comes to give birth, you will be able to choose what is most appealing, suitable, and effective for you and your baby’s particular needs.

Class Topics include:

 Physiology of Labor and Delivery
 Effects of the Hormones of Birth on Mother's Body and Mind
 Remedies for Reducing Discomforts and Coping with Pain
 Breath Awareness, Relaxation, Visualizations
 Creating a Family Birth Plan
 Parenting and Bonding with the Unborn and the Newborn
 Postpartum for Mother and Baby
 Breastfeeding

Reading Materials
Included in the fee is the class binder. Reading materials are extensive, relevant, up-to- date, and you will find a wealth of information that is not commonly included in standard pamphlets and re-printed class handouts.


Telephone

406-570-4359

Email

bridgerbirthing@gmail.com