Understanding Birth

Description

InJoy’s Understanding Birth curriculum provides comprehensive childbirth education that prepares expectant parents to have healthier and more satisfying birth experiences. Engaging video, life-like 3D animation, and personal birth stories give parents the knowledge and confidence they need to make informed decisions about their labor and delivery.

This complete curriculum standardizes childbirth education across your organization with consistent, research-based content in a variety of teaching formats. Available in DVD, Printed Book + Web App (books and web apps also available on their own), PowerPoint Program, and eClass.

CONTENT INCLUDES:

• Pregnancy: Fetal development, anatomy, discomforts, nutrition, warning signs, preterm labor, hazards, emotions, strength and stretching exercises, and more.
• Labor: Pain theories, 4 P’s of labor, pre-labor signs, onset of labor, stages of labor, and the importance of skin-to-skin contact.
• Birth Stories: How the stages of labor unfold in real life, natural coping techniques, medicated pain relief, and partner support.
• Comfort Techniques: Labor support, breathing, relaxation, massage, visualization, focal points, hydrotherapy, labor & pushing positions, back labor, and partner advice.
• Medical Procedures: Birth plans, decision-making, induction, fetal monitoring, IVs, pain medication, augmentation, second-stage interventions, and nonmedical alternatives.
• Cesarean Birth: Reasons for a cesarean, risks, anesthesia, 3D animation of surgery, recovery, reducing the risk for cesarean birth, breastfeeding, family-centered birth tips.
• Newborns: Newborn hospital procedures, skin-to-skin contact, first feeding, newborn appearance, senses, behaviors, SIDS, abusive head trauma (shaken baby syndrome).
• Postpartum: Involution, lochia, perineum care, rooming-in, baby blues, postpartum depression, healthy habits, breastfeeding, hunger signs, feeding frequency, effective latch, and getting support.