Inspired Natural Childbirth Preparation

Class e-Binder

Class 1: Laying the Foundation for Your Best Pregnancy & Birth

Required Reading:

• The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
• 10 Natural Childbirth Myths
• What Women Aren't Told about Childbirth
• Choosing a Caregiver
• Nourish the Future
• Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow's Children
• Optimal Fetal Positioning: 3 Pregnancy Principles

Suggested Reading:

• Pursuing a Natural Pregnancy - Protein
• Weston Price Diet for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
• How to Cook Whole Food from Scratch- and Keep Your Day Job!
• Taking the Fear Out of Eating Fat

Class 2: Natural Pregnancy & Birth

Required Reading:

• Organic Pregnancy Tips
• Yale Study Links Prenatal Ultrasound to Brain Damage
• Comparing Choices in Childbirth Settings
• Bringing Homebirth into the Hospital
• Off Her Back
• Waterbirth

Suggested Reading:

• Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy: A Critical Assessment (abstract only)
• How to Avoid the Top 10 Most Common Toxins
• Alarm Over Gender-Bender Chemical in Household Cleaning Products
• Natural Sea Salt Versus Table Salt, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Hidden Names for MSG

Class 3: Labor Support & Comfort Techniques

Required Reading:

• Labor Union: The Story of a Bradley Dad
• Birth Doula FAQs

Class 4: Birth Choices & Planning

Required Reading:

• Sample Birth Plans
• The Myth of a Vaginal Exam

  Suggested Reading:

  • Can You Have Your First Baby at Home?
  • They Saw It All (Article about siblings at birth)

  Class 5: Variations, Complications & Interventions

  Required Reading:

  • Cascade of Intervention in Childbirth
  • Problems and Hazards of Induction of Labor
  • Saying "No" to Induction
  • Let the Baby Decide: The Case Against Inducing Labor
  • Premature Rupture of Membranes
  • Artificial Rupture of the Membranes (Amniotomy)
  • Informed Decision Making, Informed Consent or Refusal

  Suggested Reading:

  • Treating Group B Strep: Are Antibiotics Necessary?
  • Birth After Cesarean: A Primer for Success
  • Attachment Parenting and the C-Section
  • Charlotte's Grace (Stillbirth story)

  Class 6: Your Newborn

  Required Reading:

  • Routine Newborn Baby Care Procedures
  • Cord Blood – Why Delaying Cord Clamping Benefits Your Baby
  • New study on stem cells in cord suggest delayed cord clamping after birth
  • Vitamin K- An Alternative Perspective
  • Midwife Informed Consent for Vitamin K
  • AAP Position on Circumcision
  • Circumcision Decision

  Class 7: Comfort, Coping & Working Together in Labor

  Required Reading:

  • Tracking Your Tigers: Effects of Fear on Labor
  • Conversations at the Hospital

  Suggested Reading:

  • Using Self-Inquiry for Letting Go of Fears

  Class 8: Birth Stories, Breastfeeding & Beyond

  Required Reading:

  • What Attachment Parenting Is- The 7 Baby B's
  • What is Attachment Parenting?
  • The Importance of the In-Arms Phase
  • Perinatal Mood Disorders Fact Sheet

  Suggested Reading:

  • Postpartum Depression Self-Assessment
  • Who Wants to Sleep Alone?
  • Sleeping with Your Baby
  • What to Feed Your Baby
  • Growing Wise Kids: Nourishing a Growing Baby
  • Dr. Suess for Nursing Moms
  
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