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Know what your body is doing, why it’s doing it and what you can do about it. This three day series is held monthly and at Blue Sky Yoga studios in Ruston and Monroe. During these three hour classes you will learn:
🙂 Basic anatomy of the pregnant body
- Why does the 3rd trimester affect EVERYTHING?
- How can you get relief from common discomforts?
- Does food and exercise really matter? If so, how?
😃 Mechanisms of physiological labor
- What should you do when the nurses say you are not in labor and to go home, but you are having painful contractions?
- How do pain medications work and why is it sometimes denied?
- What methods of unmedicated measures work for different parts of labor when medication is not used or doesn’t work?
🤨 Routine hospital procedures
- What are the benefits and risks to the most common procedures offered?
- Do birth plans get you the experience you are hoping to have?
- How can you communicate your needs to your providers so they will listen?
☹️ Complications
- When is a cesarean really necessary?
- Can anything be done to minimize the risk of having a cesarean?
- Who can you turn to when birth does not go as planned?
🥰 Basic newborn care
- How do you know when something is normal or not?
- What do you do when the baby won’t stop crying?
- Are your plans for feeding the baby realistic?
- How do you navigate night time feedings with safe sleeping for the baby?
🤔 Postpartum, the overlooked trimester
- What is the difference between baby blues and postpartum depression?
- Why is everyone always talking about postpartum depression anyways?
- Have you prepared for your postpartum as much as you have for your birth or wedding?
Classes are live, online and interactive. Whiteboards are used so we can problem solve concerns together. Most importantly, you get your questions answered in real time. The fee is 99.00 for the series and includes all materials. Some insurance companies will reimburse the cost upon completion. Documentation of completion and instructions for insurance reimbursement is provided by request.
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Everyone should have access to childbirth preparation
Midwife Louisiana, LLC has put a lot of effort into making quality, pertinent childbirth education that is affordable. Below is link to a YouTube series of three childbirth education classes, each under one hour, taught by a Canadian midwife that cover the basics of physiologic labor, birth and postpartum. Although, the free version does not have all the topics listed in our series, it can help make do when life’s circumstances won’t allow for any added expense.
The video series was filmed in 2015 and mentions pelvis types and their relation to predicting the kind of labor or potential complications the birthing person will have. This is outdated information. If interested, the latest research of pelvis types and childbirth can be found here.