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| Prenatal Education Classes |  You are expecting a baby; you eat the foods, take a lot of exercises, have a rest and want to give your baby a good start. What can you do for your baby, except of listening to music, reading books and talking to your baby? If you are pregnant parent childbirth classes will help you to learn about and prepare for labor and birth physically, emotionally and socially. Among the most popular childbirth classes are Lamaze and Bradley, named after their developers. Most education classes use one of these two approaches. The Lamaze Method teaches to cope with labor using focused breathing, moving and positioning, massage, relaxation technique and labor support. Women are taught here how to cope with labor pain taking medical procedure or using pain relief medications. The Bradley Method is for women with no medical complications who are going to birth naturally. This method is focused on exercising, nutrition and deep breathing.
Although there are other techniques, among them are Alexander technique, HypnoBirthing, Birthworks.
All the prenatal education programs are presented by educator, who is usually standing out in front of group of parents talking to them. Discussion takes a question-answer form with the educator offering advice in response to parent’s question. The more active parents during classes the more effective learning process. Group is lucky if the educator has a sense of humor. If classes are interesting, fun and provided with variety of visual aids to look at people will go home feeling that they have had a good time. The most important skills taught at prenatal educational classes are know-how to give the birth safely and easily, meaning how to breathe and relax in labor. It is also important to know a row of useful facts about caesarean and other possible complications. If you already decided to attend prenatal education classes you’d better do it in your birth centre/hospital and you will be get acquainted with the medical staff, who will take of you during prenatal and postpartum period. Then you should write a birth plan where you can express your wishes on where you want to deliver, who from your close people will be present and what pain medications you would like to use (if any).
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