Education

I cover topics for first-time parents, mothers preparing for VBAC, those desiring unmedicated birth, those desiring homebirth, hospital birth, or birth center birth, and those preparing for a medicated birth.

Topics Include:

Food and Fitness for Pregnancy

Choosing Where to Birth: Home, Hospital, Birth Center

Tests and Procedure Awareness

Informed Consent and How to Talk with your Providers and Caretakers

Phases of Labor, Contractions, Labor Patterns, Laboring Positions, Feeling Safe During Pushing

Comfort Measures

Relaxation Techniques

What Partners can do to Support

Complications, Variations of Labor, Common Practices, Induction, C-Section, VBAC

Siblings At the Birth

Establishing Priorities, Writing a Birth Plan

Newborn Procedures, Postpartum Care and Recovery, Life with a New Family Member