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Peaceful Child Birth Classes Your baby will have only one gestation and only one birth. You, the parents, are the persons who will determine the quality of those imprinting experiences. You will choose your caregivers and the place of your baby’s birth. You will decide how you will nourish your growing fetus, nutritionally and emotionally. You will make many decisions that will determine the ease or the difficulty of your baby’s labor to enter this world. Education is the key. With knowledge, you will make better choices for your pregnancy. With knowledge, you empower yourself to communicate more effectively with your providers. With knowledge, you increase your ability to nurture and protect your pregnancy, your labor, and your newborn. Labor does not have to be an agonizing or medication-dulled experience. Labor is work. It can be a joyful progression, a spiritual experience. Your body can thrive through the experience. Your relationships can grow beautifully throughout the pregnancy and labor. Utilizing the information offered in the Peaceful Childbirth Classes, you will become an advocate for yourself and for your child. Fathers and other support persons will learn how to support the laboring mother. Mom’s confidence in her innate ability to give birth will increase. This is a twelve-week series of classes, meeting one time each week for 2½ hours. You will watch videos of natural births, read relevant information, and learn about the following topics:
· The principles of conscious parenting and natural childbirth · Nutrition and exercise for pregnancy · Development of the baby and of the mother’s body throughout gestation · Prenatal brain development and what you can do to support it · The progression of the stages of labor and how to work with your body throughout · What support persons can say and do, and what they can avoid saying and doing, to give the laboring mother the best support · Relaxation exercises to use throughout pregnancy and labor · Medical interventions and options which might be offered to you in a hospital setting · Newborn parenting: breastfeeding, infant massage, immunizations, and other issues
The instructor of these classes is Barbara Roberts, M.A. Educated as a counselor for children and families, Barbara has taught childbirth classes for fifteen years and parenting classes for ten. The mother of three, Barbara teaches principles she has used successfully throughout her own pregnancies and the rearing of her children. For More information you may E-mail Barbara Roberts at 513-479-3826 |
