How to Prepare for Your Birth So You Can Go Into Labor Feeling Ready, Realistic, and Confident in Your Own Abilities and Instincts
In this unique, interactive, content-packed class, you'll learn:
✓The most important things to know about what's going on in your pregnant, birthing, and postpartum body
✓How labor really works and the essential tips and tricks you and your birth partner will need to help you cope
✓What to expect when things don't go exactly as you planned, and how to avoid some of the most common complications
✓How you can make informed decisions and still feel empowered no matter what
✓How labor really works and the essential tips and tricks you and your birth partner will need to help you cope
✓What to expect when things don't go exactly as you planned, and how to avoid some of the most common complications
✓How you can make informed decisions and still feel empowered no matter what
You're going to LOVE this class, especially if you...
✓ Are holistically minded and conscious of what goes into your body and how it can affect your baby
✓ Are up at night thinking about how your birth is going to go and wondering if you will be ready
✓ Have talked to your husband about whether he feels ready to support you through it all, even if labor is long and hard or throws any curve balls your way
✓ Spend hours reading or researching online for how to manage your pregnancy discomforts or labor and birth
✓ Are up at night thinking about how your birth is going to go and wondering if you will be ready
✓ Have talked to your husband about whether he feels ready to support you through it all, even if labor is long and hard or throws any curve balls your way
✓ Spend hours reading or researching online for how to manage your pregnancy discomforts or labor and birth
The topics we will cover...
- Introduction to maternity care
- The physiology of pregnancy
- Development of the fetus
- Prenatal and postpartum exercises
- The physiology of labor
- Coping techniques for labor
- Nutrition for pregnancy and breastfeeding
- What your birth partner / labor coach needs to know: basic things to remember!
- Visualization and relaxation during pregnancy and birth
- Complications during pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and the newborn
- Common medications and interventions during labor
- Postpartum physiology and adjustment
- Newborn physiology and adjustment
- The basics of parenting an infant and young child
- The basics of lactation and infant feeding