Labor & Birth, Comfort Measures and Epidural LIVE (Memorial Hospital West)
About this Event
This in-person class is designed to help you and your partner prepare for the natural labor and birth process with up-to-date, evidence -based information. Includes important pregnancy warning signs, how to recognize when labor is approaching, the stages of labor, and when it's time to head to the hospital. The class also covers effective labor positions, breathing techniques, and pain relief options-including nitrous oxide, IV medications and epidurals.
Topics Include:
- Making a birth plan
- Labor support person’s role
- Preterm labor signs
- Warning signs of labor
- How to know when you are really in labor
- Effacement, dilation and pelvic station
- Timing contractions
- When to come to the hospital
- How to know and what to do if your membranes rupture.
- Stages of labor
- Early, active, and transition phases and second stage of labor
- Pushing positions
- Role of your labor partner
- Delivery of the placenta and skin to skin after birth
- Immediate postpartum recovery
Have your partner attend with you.
Price per couple. (Space is very tight, please no more than 2 people per ticket)
Memorial Hospital West - Enter through Main Entrance
Family Birthplace Conference Room - 3rd Floor
Please allow time for parking / security check in
(official ID required for hospital entry)
Questions: 954-844-7110 | [email protected]
Keywords: MHS, LIVE, Family Birthplace, IN PERSON
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 10.00
