Pregnancy & Childbirth Program
Pregnancy and Childbirth is one of the most important and defining phase in a couple’s life. It brings about creation of a new life and also innocent unconditional love in all of us. This phase also brings about a lot of questions, anxiety and stress about pain during birth, myths and age old beliefs, doubts about medical interventions and immense distress about the rising Cesarean rates and how birth can be made as a natural and normal event.
Also known as childbirth preparation classes, antenatal classes or Lamaze classes, our Pregnancy & Childbirth Program will include a whole host of topics from pregnancy to newborn care. Some of the areas that the classes concentrate on are learning about labor and lessening fear and giving way to confidence, labor support, making a birth plan, pain medications – pros & cons, informed consent and decision making, hospital procedures, breastfeeding and newborn care.
Our program being independent ( meaning outside a hospital) is also a place where expectant couples gain information, knowledge and skills which empower them to make informed decisions and choose evidence based medical practices that will enhance their birthing experience.
Couples learn and practice prenatal exercises, breathing and relaxation techniques with husbands who learn the different ways they can support their partners during labor and after birth too. Discussions, doubts and a lot of support and fun make the classes a very lively, informal and a very valuable asset to have for a more natural birth. The complete course content is available here. Detailed course brochure is available for download here.
About the educator: The programs are conducted by Deepa Santhosh, who is a Certified Childbirth Educator from a Childbirth professional training organization – Childbirth International Inc. She has been working with expectant couples as an independent educator which allows for a non-biased and complete information transfer to happen with pros and cons elaborated. She also functions as a labor support professional who offers emotional, physical and informational support to the couple during delivery of the baby in the hospital. Deepa has also created the “ Chennai Birth Network – CBN ” where like minded individuals ( in , from or associated with Chennai) who are passionate about informed pregnancy, natural childbirth and breastfeeding support interact to bring about awareness to pregnant women on the merits of evidence based care practice in maternity care.
Who should attend: Expecting mothers - 22-24 weeks on, along with your spouses. Seperate batches will be conducted on a case to case basis.
Next batch start date: March 21, 2010 - Every Sunday for 6 weeks.
Time: 10.30 am - 12.00pm
Limited seats. Register today. Call us at 044-45014350.
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