- Goal: To prepare expectant parents emotionally and physically for childbirth while promoting wellness behaviors in the family.
- It should make the expectant couple a knowledgeable consumer of Obstetric care, help them reduce or manage pain with no or little pharmacologic intervention, and increase their overall enjoyment and satisfaction with the childbirth experience.
- Must begin with the expectants' base knowledge and ideally done in an interactive group format.
Contents are:
- Review of physiologic changes of pregnancy and fetal growth.
- Personal care during pregnancy, nutrition, hygiene, exercise, rest.
- Emotional changes during pregnancy.
- Labor and delivery a birth process, exercise and breathing technique, medications in labor.
- The post partum period.
- Infant care nutrition and hygiene.
- Plans of birth and birth setting available, supplies to take to birth settings, tour to the birth setting.
- Reproductive life planning.
