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The following is a loose schedule of topics for a four-week class. Your questions and discussions often shape how and when
we advance to a new subject area, so we offer this simply as a rough plan:
Welcomes and introduction to natural childbirth. The boney pelvis and the anatomy of birth. What is normal birth? Birth movie.
Review of normal birth. Hormones & the mind-body connection. Relaxation and coping with challenges. Birth movie.
Variations, complications and interventions during pregnancy and birth. Comfort measures and coping with non-pharmaceutical relief.
Guest speaker telling a birth story.
Decision-making in labor, birth plans. Breastfeeding, newborn care, post partum issues, community, and the challenges of
parenthood. Guest speaker with a birth story.
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know
their inner strength.”
~Barbara Katz Rothman
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