Preparing for Birth Class
Palo Alto Clinic
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:
Palo Alto Clinic
795 El Camino Real
Level 3, Hearst Center for Health Education
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Education office: 650-853-2960
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Cost: $160 per couple
Speaker/Instructor: TBA
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.