Embracing Birth: Hybrid

Service Description

This series focuses on the need-to-know information on normal labor and birth and how to identify and support every stage and phase with practical, hands-on and emotional tools and techniques. It is a hybrid series which includes segments from our comprehensive childbirth class as well as one of our most popular classes, Comfort Skills for an Easier Labor. December 4th, 5:30-8:30 PM (Class One): We will review the signs and progression of normal, physiologic labor and birth. We will also explore the hormones of labor and discuss tips and techniques for partners and support people. December 11th, 5:30-8:30PM (Class Two): A deep dive into comfort measures. We will explore and practice practical, natural pain relief techniques to facilitate a calm, comfortable environment that supports normal, physiologic labor and birth. Our second class includes a comfort measures rehearsal where you and your partner will get to put what you've learned to practice while working through "contractions" as a team! As a bonus, attendees will receive exclusive access to a pre-recorded class that reviews medical inductions, interventions, and pain management options that they can watch on their own time as well as a recorded comfort measures rehearsal they can follow along with at home to continue practicing for labor. This series is best for families planning to birth at home or at a birth center and serves as a great refresher for families who have had babies before. Learning Objectives: -Understand and be able to identify the stages and phases of normal, physiologic labor and birth. -Identify contraction patterns, emotional signposts of labor, and when to go to their chosen birth setting. -Identify ways to prepare the mind and body for birth. - Know when to call the birth team or head to your chosen birth location. - Discuss the value of comfort measures in labor. - Review a variety of comfort measures for labor and birth. - Demonstrate and practice comfort measures for use during labor and birth. - Discuss how we can overcome barriers to providing comfort measures in various birth settings. - Integrate what we have learned into a comfort measures labor rehearsal. BONUS: - Exclusive access to private digital resources including a comfort measures labor rehearsal - Comfort Measures booklet packed with resources - 2 free classes from the Injoy app- Understanding Your Newborn and Postpartum Health REGISTRATION INCLUDES BOTH CLASS DATES