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Natural Childbirth Education

Appalachian Midwife teaching about what to expect of your new baby
Appalachian Midwife teaching mom to know how her baby is laying
Appalachian Midwife teaching about stages of labor

  
       
Childbirth Education
First Trimester
❥ Philosophies of birth Class one
~Medical Mode
l Vs. Midwifery model
❥ Caring for Yourself and your Baby Class two
~Diet, exercise, meditation, education
❥ Second & Third trimester Class Third
~What to expect and signs of danger
❥ Psychological Aspect Fourth class
~Facing fear, and conflicting emotions
❥ The Unexpected Fourth Class
~When plan "B" must be implemented
❥ Signs and symptoms of labor Fifth Class
~Know when to call the midwife,
~Tools for coping with the hard work of labor
~Stages of labor Preparation
❥ Labor and Delivery Sixth Class
~Early vs active labor, transition to the second stage of labor,
~The great Push - Natural ejection reflex, positions of labor, positions for the push and delivery
❥ Postpartum Seventh Class
~Postpartum the immediate hours after delivery, newborn, mommy and breast care, healing
~Postpartum days and weeks, care of baby, care of mommy, care of breasts
❥ The Newborn Eighth Class
~Physical appearance, transition to life on the outside
~ Normal breathing pasterns, sleep and alert patterns
~ Feeding and elimination patterns, care of the penis
~ the five S-s how to calm your baby
Breastfeeding 
~Normal breast variations, normal  colostrum to breast milk changes, breastfeeding positions, normal breastfeeding patterns
Six weeks Post partum 
❥ Return to sexual activity and fertility 
~Feeling normal again and natural child spacing and fertility awareness

 

Appalachian Midwife group classes
Appalachian Midwife teaching about new born care
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