anyone take/ taking Birthing from Within classes?

Re: anyone take/ taking Birthing from Within classes?

• moroccojade member

  July 2010

  I did. It was phenomenal. 

  Have you read the book?  A lot of the material is from there.  

  There's a lot of discussion on people's notions of birth and pain to start.  You learn a lot of coping techniques.   Labouring positions.  And you practice. 

  We watched some videos.  My favourite wasn't a birth one, but the one about epidurals.  "The Elk and the Epidural".  It's fantastic.  Hilarious but extremely informative.   We talked about the 'laborinth'... and were encouraged to walk a real labyrinth.
  

  We also did a mock cesarean.  Yes, we were all planning med-free, but stuff happens.  We learned how to be mindful and present during all kinds of births.  And the partners learned about what was helpful to say/do in such a situation.
  

  We did some nursing and newborn care stuff... the section on crying was really helpful.
  

  And then our mentor's husband came and took all of our partners to the pub down the road and they talked about their fears in becoming fathers.  We used our time with just us women to really get honest, too.  We did some birth art... usually that's the part of the BFW book that people don't really 'get'.  But doing some in class was really valuable.  We also talked about roles/relationship after the babies came.  It really got DH and I thinking about what things would look like after we became parents.  

  mmmm...  I know there's lots more.  It was 3 years ago and things are getting a bit fuzzy.  But this might help you get a bit of an idea.

   Anyway, it was worth the time and money X 1000.  If/when we have a second we'll take a "Birthing Again" class. 
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• KLDanford@gmail.com

  July 2010

  wow, thanks!  Great info.  I haven't read the book, only googled some info, etc.  Sounds really wonderful, I think we'll probably do it:)

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• marisella

  July 2010

  I had to decide whether to take a Birthing from Within course or another non-specific birthing method course.  In the end, I chose the other course and kind of regret it now.  I've since read the Birthing from Within book and think that those methods will be more helpful for me than the methods we learned in our class.  However, I haven't given birth yet, so who knows.

  For what it's worth, though, I found the book very helpful.
  

  

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