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Gloria Steinem has aptly said, “Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
Birthing classes or antenatal classes are the classes to help you and your spouse prepare themselves for labor, baby’s birth and new parenthood. They focus chiefly on birth, labor and help you sail through the newly acquired parenthood with ease and finesse. They help you your newborn’s requirement and how to handle the baby. Giving birth is a miraculous phenomenon but a little complicated one. Birthing classes can help you overcome all your hidden fears and apprehensions. In birthing classes the experts give you information, about issues related to childbirth, cesarean birth, breathing techniques, vaginal birth, etc.
The antenatal or prenatal classes are important as they prepare the expectant mother both mentally and physically to cope up with labor and the process of giving birth. It evades all the misconceptions associated with pregnancy and delivery processes. You will be given insights on vaginal and C-section birth, potential complications, coping tips and techniques, and how your partner can help you in this hugely transitional phase of your life.
A child birth class would help prepare yourself for labor and birth. You will be provided information on labor, birth, parenting and your fears would be addressed. Especially if you are a first time parent, you would find these child birth classes especially useful as your questions, expectations and worries would be addressed. Techniques and basics covering labor, breastfeeding, newborn care, early parenting, healing etc are covered which would help you make informed decisions. Not only will you be equipped with information by experts, you would also know a lot of facts from hear-say when it would be about labor, birth and newborn care.
The benefits of birthing classes are enlisted as under. The birthing classes provide you a platform to get answers for you various queries and help you explicitly understand main issues related to your baby’s birth.
They disseminate information about the following:
In a nutshell everything related to pregnancy, labor and delivery is covered under these classes’ curriculum.
They also tell you about the ways to handle newborn, breastfeeding, and tackling the emotional aspect of being a parent.
You can start taking a birthing class form the first trimester itself. Birthing classes offered in early pregnancy tells you about the changes occurring during the first trimester of pregnancy while some offer information about the late pregnancy are aimed at issues related to labor, delivery, post-delivery issues, breast-feeding, etc.
Choosing the right type of class depends largely upon your beliefs and personality. If you are a social person and love to meet and share with others, then a small and intimate class is good for you. If you are not fond of talking and sharing too much, then a large class is ideal for you.
Before actually joining a birthing class, you should try to find out what all it encompasses and its underlying philosophy.
The choice of childbirth classes would depend on your needs and location where you are. If it is pain management by natural means that you want to know, then you should enroll yourself with an instructor who can teach you breathing and comforting techniques. In the other case, you might not want someone who is a strict antidrug instructor.
Several other types of birthing classes are also available, based on the above mentioned methods or on yoga techniques to deal with pain. Hypnobirthing courses that use deep relaxation and self hypnosis as pain management techniques are also available at many places.
Finding a birthing class is not a tough task. You can ask about them from your family doctor, obstetrician, friends or midwife. You can find antenatal classes offered by:
Many maternity Hospitals in Hyderabad and Chennai offer prenatal classes for pregnant mothers. Antenatal classes are also offered by hospitals in Mumbai.
Pain is the most important and deadly fear of a pregnant woman and the antenatal classes can help you overcome this fear and help you cope with pain and make the process of giving birth easy and comfortable. Nevertheless a memorable one.
“The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It’s the child that’s remembered.”
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