At the beginning of the 20th century the promise of safer and less painful labor by the medical community resulted in more women of the upper
classes having their babies in hospitals.
Not exact matches
Learn how to latch your
baby on properly either by taking a breastfeeding
class or reading up on the subject before you
have your
baby, or from your nurse, doctor, or lactation consultant while you're
in the
hospital.
Bradley Method
class is a wonderful and empowering
class whether you
have your
baby at home, a birth center, or a
hospital so it's probably the best step to saving money
in the whole process.
You may or may not
have a really good idea of what you learn
in a childbirth
class, but they will cover a lot of territory, including how to
have a healthy pregnancy, when to go to the
hospital or birth center, and even the basics of
baby care and breastfeeding.
I attended the
hospital antenatal education
classes, which are a crash course
in the midwifery agenda: analgesia is BAD, and you are a BAD mother doing BAD things to your
baby if you
have any (except nitrous oxide / O2, which is acceptable somehow — because it is not particularly effective, perhaps?)
Nicole Green's
classes helped us to move past our fear following our first negative birth experience and gave us both the knowledge we desired and the confidence we needed
in order to
have a wonderful, all - natural,
hospital birth with our second
baby.
A lot of local
hospitals offer basic breastfeeding
classes that discuss the anatomy of the breast, stages of breastfeeding, when your breast milk will come
in, the types of breast milk, how your
baby has an effect on your breast milk, cues to look for when breastfeeding your
baby, and much more.
It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle
class white woman, if they opt to
have their full term, singleton
baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their
baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth
in the
hospital.
Talk to those who are
in your prenatal
classes or are
having their
baby where you are about how they intend to get to the
hospital.
Although
having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're
in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding
class when pregnant,
have a breastpump
in the house before the
baby is born, buy nursing bras that
have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the
hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the
baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing
baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also
have lanolin and / or nipple cream
in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and
in pain).
«We
had two midwives, one doula, one meditation birthing
class, a ton of hippie
baby books, and a lovely home
in the Hollywood Hills that we
had turned into a labor facility... when all our plans fell apart and the serene, natural childbirth we
had envisioned ended with a transfer to the
hospital and an emergency C - section, we arrived home exhausted, delusional, and totally
in shock.»