Class Highlights:
**Nutrition
**Exercise
**Staying Healthy and Low Risk
**Pregnancy Basics
**Labor & Birth
**Pain Management
**Effective Coaching Tips
**Breastfeeding
**Postpartum
**Medical Consumerism, meaning what your rights are as a patient

Maureen's Classes will center around the following topics:

• Comprehensive prenatal nutrition and exercises so that you and your baby can stay healthy and low risk
• Consumerism - what your rights are as a medical patient
• Pros & Cons to the most commonly applied interventions - How to integrate sound obstetrical practices with natural childbirth, for a safe and satisfying experience
• Labor & birth mechanics - so that you and your partner understand the physical changes that take place during the birthing process and post partum period
• In depth coaching techniques and hints
• Dealing with pain -
  • • Relaxation techniques - the key to comfort in labor
    • Labor support techniques - enabling your partner to actively support the birthing process
    • Proven skills - empowering you to cope with labor
    • Medication options - the benefits, the risks and choices of various pain medications available
• Labor's emotional aspects, so that you and your partner ca recognize the emotional sign-posts of labor and work with them, rather than against them
• How to avoid an unnecessary cesarean, as well as options for a family-centered cesarean birth, should that become necessary
• Your Newborn - bonding, breastfeeding and becoming a family.  What to expect after the baby is born, during the immediate post partum period

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