$20.00
Understanding Birth is now offered as a Online Self Guided Class until in person classes become a safe option again...Now $20.00 (Reg. $35.00)
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.
Now families have access to comprehensive, trusted information and tools for to guide them through childbirth—when and how they choose! The Understanding Birth web app provides convenient learning from any mobile device or computer.
Web app includes 18 months access to approx. 150 web pages, videos, Parent's Toolbox, resources, notes pages, PDFs, instant parent polls, and optional weekly emails. Web app offers. Parent's Toolbox, including a contraction timer, birth plan, and hospital bag checklist and more.
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.
**Please allow 48 business hours for us to generate a personal access code for your family.