Preparing for Birth
Fremont Center

Class Overview:

This class is designed to help prepare expectant parents for the practical, physical and emotional challenges of childbirth. Participants will receive instructions in all aspects of childbirth and receive training in specific skills to cope and respond to the sensations of labor and delivery. All PAMF childbirth educators are certified teachers in the psychoprophylactic method, also known as Lamaze. Lamaze skills are taught with additional support information and techniques gathered from the teachers' many years of collective experience. Areas of instruction include:

  • Labor and delivery
  • Coping with labor: Lamaze skills, comfort measures and support
  • Hospital births: policies, procedures and options
  • Electronic fetal monitoring
  • Medications and anesthesia
  • Medical equipment and procedures: IV's, forceps, episiotomy, etc.
  • Understanding the medical indications
  • Options for birth
  • Cesarean birth: indications, practical tips during and after
  • Postpartum: most class series include a reunion class of former graduates to come and share their experience about birth, postpartum, breastfeeding and/or early parenting

Location:

Fremont Center
3200 Kearney Street
Conference Room, Building 2
Fremont, CA 94538
Education Office: 650-853-2960
Main phone: 510-490-1222
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Cost: $160 per couple

Speaker/Instructor: Barbara Hill

If you cannot find what you are looking for or have questions, please e-mail the Education Division at education@pamf.org or call 650-853-2960. (Leave your name and phone number and someone will return your call as soon as possible.)

Pre-Registration

You can pre-register for classes by filling in the form below. Please note this request form does not automatically enroll you in the class. We will make every effort to accommodate your request for a particular class. Your registration will be finalized with a confirmatory e-mail or phone call from PAMF, as well as collection of any necessary class fees.

You can expect a confirmation within two business days.

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Weekly, Saturdays
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Class listings are for 2009

May 30 - June 13, 2009

July 11-25, 2009

August 1-15, 2009

September 12-26, 2009

October 3-17, 2009

November 7-21, 2009

December 5-19, 2009

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