BIRTH PREPARATION CLASSES
YOUR ANTENATAL CLASS (can be tailored to suit your personal requirements)
These classes include handouts, doll and pelvis demonstrations, dvd etc
Session (1)
- Normal physiology of labour and birth. 1st stage; 2nd stage; transition and 3rd stage
- Recognising the beginning of labour/what to take to hospital/ signs and symptoms of when to go in
- Coping at home - breathing, movement, positions, water and massage
- Different types of monitoring in the hospital
- What is meconium stained amniotic fluid?
- Coping with labour - pain relief options (T.E.N.S. machine, entonox, diamorphine, epidural)
- Induction - tips to help you go into labour
- Episiotomy/tear
- 3rd stage of labour (physiological or managed)
- Complications of labour (instrumental delivery, caesarean section)
- Writing your birth plan
Session (2)
- The immediate after birth (cutting cord, apgar scores, skin to skin, vitamin K)
- BCG vaccination; Newborn blood spot screening test and MCADD
- Coping with newborn (cord care, nappy changing, swaddling, bathing, topping and tailing, winding etc)
- Role of Community Midwife, Health Visitor, GP & birth registration
