"It's everything you need to teach a six night prenatal series!"
12 hours of lesson plans flow as a full prenatal education class or each could be taught as a stand alone class. Class topics include:
Introduction to Labor and Birth
Breathing and Relaxation
Comfort Measures
Interventions and Informed Consent
Breastfeeding
Labor Review and Postpartum Care
You’ll learn to kick start the class with a motivating statement and to use a question or activity to assess your class’s past experience with the topic.
Each section is timed to give you an idea of how long each bit of teaching should take and the optimal pacing for a 2 hour class.
Instructor’s Activities contain a comprehensive script for your teaching and includes activities and questions for the students.
Learner’s Activities describe what the learners are doing (reading, watching, practicing, writing). You’ll learn how to mix up the pace and style of learning to keep the classes engaging.
You’ll find lists of the teaching aids you may wish to have at each point in the class. Options are given for items to use, if you don’t have resources readily available.
Instructor’s References give you the resources used in the creation of this curriculum. As you’ll find, classes evolve over time with changes in practice and feedback from students. Birthwares current curriculum has had years of input from parents and professionals to reach this point.
Based on a philosophy of harm-reduction and informed consent, you’ll inform and share with good humor and respect. Without judgment, you can now offer up-to-date plain language information to provide expecting moms and their support people with the knowledge necessary to make informed choices.
Birthwares 6 Part Prenatal Curriculum encourages you to make the classes your own and, as a starting point for you, guides you in creating your own model of teaching.
Your complete step-by-step lesson plan package also includes these great bonuses!:
ü Childbirth Education Worksheets - a fabulous set of 7 student-driven worksheets for use while teaching childbirth classes. Comes with a Teaching Guide and one each of:
Breastfeeding Worksheet
My "Comfort Toolkit"
Relaxation Worksheet
Hopes and Fears for Labor and Birth
My Philosophy of Birth
Who Makes Up My Support Network?
My Worst Pain Ever!
üPlenty of terrific handouts.
üRecommended links to excellent websites that offer more free resources.
üBirthwares top 5 most popular childbirth teaching aids: (a $53 value!)
Labor Rehearsal Teaching Aid
A set of 30 cards, each depicting a specific moment in labor. This tool is very useful to hand out in Childbirth Class and have the participants work together to lay out the order in which a labor may logically progress. Students love to work as a group on this fun task and it provides a great opportunity to reinforce their learning.
Card examples include:
Hot bath "takes away" contractions
Have urge to push
"Bloody Show"
Labor Scenario Teaching Aid An excellent 10 part scenario-based rehearsal tool, useful for reviewing stages of labor, breathing, and comfort measures. It draws participants into possible scenarios and moments in labor and asks that they brainstorm on ways to address the situation. Written alternately from mother's or support person's perspective. Cards are 4" x 6" on poster stock. Comes with a teaching guide. Very popular with students and prompts discussion.
What Did I Eat For Lunch Today? - Nutrition Teaching Aid
A set of 20 cards depicting what different pregnant women ate for lunch that day. This set has so many uses as a teaching tool. For example, you can pass out the cards to the class, face down, and have each mom turn over their card and share in turn what their pregnant women ate at lunch that day. Discuss as a group what is missing from, good about, or worrisome about the items on each card. This teaching tool gently challenges moms to face possible poor diet habits without putting them on the spot directly.
Comes with a teaching guide.
Card examples range from: Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken and Orange Juice
to: Cigarette and Soda
Labor Decision Tree Prioritization Teaching Aid
A single set of 10 cards to be used as an activity based teaching aid to allow moms to prioritize privately for themselves what their priorities are for their labor and birth. Very useful for aiding the process of creating a birth plan and creating dialogue with a partner and self-reflection on any social, societal or familial pressures. Comes with a teaching guide. Great for those moms who have expressed feeling family or cultural pressures.
Your Decision Tree For Labor
Prioritize from what is least to most important TO YOU at the labor and delivery of your baby.
Card examples include:
What is safest and gentlest for your body
What your partner wishes - their needs met
Comfort Measures For Labor Teaching Aid
A set of 20 cards depicting different creative comfort measures for use during labor, at home or at the hospital. They show the broad variety of everyday items that can provide comfort. Great fun can be had getting the moms and partners to guess what comfort an unusual item could possibly offer.
Comes with a teaching guide.
Card examples include:
Baggie of frozen peas
Corn starch
"It's everything you need to teach a six night prenatal series!"
