Childbirth Education
If you have one, a few, or several, it is an experience in your life you will, of course, remember. There is nothing like a birth of a baby – your baby.
My vision for birth is a smartone. Where you, an expectant mom have all the information (the correct information) you need to make smart choices based on what YOU want. Smart birth is also not being denied information as far as your options in giving birth. The availability of choices also depends on where you live, and your health acre provider. Leslynotes offers a free online childbirth class
SmartBirth is a free Childbirth Class Social Network
Lesly Federici : info@usmileservices.com
SmartBirth ™ =Proactive, mindful birthing. Intelligent, intuitive, with know-how.
Thank you for your interest in SmartBirth ™. This class focuses on mindfulness during the birthing process. A “mindful” birth is the ability to control negative thoughts during your pregnancy and labor experience. Through relaxation exercises, personal confidence, enhanced physical response to labor, and positive birthing experience can be attained.
Scientific research demonstrates how your perceptions of life experiences, based on beliefs and values, can influence your behavior and determine how you may respond to stressful situations, like labor and birth. Also, the degree in which you feel stressed or anxious about birth will also contribute to a cascade of hormonal physiological responses in your body which can have a negative impact on the labor process.
Today, the birthing experience is treated as a medical event in which the OB practitioner guides you through various testing, and medical procedures treating pregnancy and birth in a clinical manner. Certainly, there are times when these procedures are necessary. However, as women become more dependent on these actions and decisions made by the practitioner, self confidence in your innate instincts and abilities to birth your baby lessen and are overshadowed by medical advice.
SmartBirth ™ believes through exploration of personal coping skills, attitudes, understanding physiology during the labor process, and in -depth relaxation skills, leads to a better, healthier birth experience.
Communication with your physician will also improve because of your increased knowledge of the labor process, decreased fear, and enhanced confidence in your own abilities to birth your baby.
Smartbirth ™ focuses on three main areas:
- Attitudes and coping skills
- Stress and relaxation
- Physiology
Classes:
1.
Self Discovery: First, it is important to understand your opinions, attitudes, perceptions about birth, your circumstance, and coping skills as all of these will be with you in the labor room. When you have a better understanding of where your attitudes are coming from, how you respond to them, you’ll automatically reduce an amount of stress. Areas explored:
- Attitudes
- Coping skills
- Perceptions
- Self talk
- How fear and anxiety induce the stress response
- Relaxation skill
2.
Labor Process: Physiology, the stress response, and hormone
Influence, will be discussed. How the relaxation response assists the labor and birth process. Self talk will be explored.
- Fears and negative self talk
- Hormones
- Stress response in labor
- Relaxation response
- Benefits of contractions, timing, befriending them
- Signs of labor
- pushing
- Relaxation skill
3.
Movement and Involvement: Action tools are deep breathing, day dreaming, visualizations, music, positions, using coping skills as a means to work with anxiety. Medications and surgical birth will be discussed but focus will be on ways to avoid them.
However, if you want a medicated birth, education will be provided. Medications are viewed as a tool to use for pain management.
- Deep breathing
- Day dreaming, visualizations
- Positions
- Sound
- Pain threshold
- Medications and C/S
- Relaxation skill
4.
Mom and Baby Health: A healthy family unit is vital for a happy new family! As a new mom you will be challenged with changes in your personal, social, and professional life. Relaxation continues to be a consistent theme through this course. Creating a healthy home for baby is important as well:
- Transition time – first 6 – 8 weeks
- Transition “blues” (postpartum blues/depression)
- Relaxation for breastfeeding
- Relaxation for healing
- Self care
- relationships
- Creating a healthy home
- Awareness of chemicals in the home
- Diapers, bottles, and lotions
- Product solutions
Fees:
SmartBirth ™ classes can be held in person, or online. Classes are scheduled around your schedule. There are no set times. Not everyone can make a class depending on their work schedule or situation, flexibility is built in to accommodate your life style – except for special tele/webnars. Note: Enter the contest for a free Snartbirth ™ course! Go to www.leslynotes.com to enter.
Contact Lesly for more information about classes
SmartBirth ™ Class Social Network Community
- Free membership , no benefits
- Upgraded membership (unsubscribe any time): $25.00/month
Benefits:
- One monthly personal support call
- Unlimited personal support emails
- Access to member only groups
- Free MP3s of breathing Styles
- PDF What to do During Labor Guide e-book
- Free tele/webnars
Lesly Federici RN, BA, CWC
