PAMF's Health Education Classes
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- Class Category: Prenatal (Before birth)
- Location: Palo Alto
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Classes
Breastfeeding - Secrets for Success (Palo Alto)
Designed to provide expectant parents with the knowledge and tools they need to get breastfeeding off to the right start, topics will cover:
- Prenatal preparation for breastfeeding
- How to survive the first week
- How to know if baby is taking enough milk
- How to avoid problems - such as sore nipples & engorgement
- How to ensure a great supply
- When to be concerned
- Reading your baby's feeding signals - a guide to baby talk
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Moving Through Pregnancy (Palo Alto)
This three-session series covers a wide variety of topics relating to pregnancy, infant care and safety. Patients are encouraged to take this class as early in their pregnancy as possible in order to take full advantage of the education, support, and referral to clinic and community resources.
Class Fee: $70 per couple
Click here to view class dates and to register online. For questions about this class, call 650-853-2960.
Preparing for Birth (Palo Alto)
Prepared Childbirth classes are designed to help expectant parents ready themselves for the practical, physical, and emotional challenges of childbirth. Participants will receive instruction in all aspects of childbirth and receive training in specific skills to cope and respond to the sensations of labor and delivery. Lamaze skills are taught along with additional support information and techniques gathered from the teachers' many years of collective experience. Areas of instruction include (described in general terms):
- Labor and Delivery: Process, signs of labor onset, ... more
Preparing for Birth - A Refresher (Palo Alto)
This series offers "just the basics" and is only suitable for those who have previously been through a comprehensive childbirth program. Also covered:
- Labor & Delivery
- How is it different?
- When to go to the hospital
- What about my older child? Proper care ideas, support, visits, etc.
- Labor & Delivery management, options, plans
- Breathing, relaxations skills
- Comfort measures for birth
- VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) if needed
morePreparing for Childbirth Without Medication (Palo Alto)
The focus of the session will be on alternative pain-coping techniques such as breathing, position changing, relaxation, massage, and visualization. The class will also address issues such as birth plans and advocacy.
Class Fee: $55 per couple
Click here to view class dates and to register online. For questions about this class, call 650-853-2960.Your Baby's Doctor Talk
As part of the Preparing for Birth program, you are invited to attend any of the following lectures given by physicians from PAMF's Pediatrics and Family Medicine Departments. These talks should help you become acquainted with some of our physicians, as well as give you information regarding newborns, baby care, choosing a doctor, etc. The presentation that will follow the physician will be led by a childbirth educator and will focus on immediate postpartum issues. You are welcome to attend as often as you like.