Birthing Classes

A4 Hospital encourages all of our expectant parents to attend our free birthing classes, also called antenatal classes.

We are excited to travel with you in your remarkable journey as parenthood!

Service Details

Our birthing classes at A4 Hospital focus on building confidence and support for our patients in preparing for labor and delivery, breastfeeding, and postnatal care. Pregnancy is a joyful journey. We ensure to make it even more joyful by providing our best education possible.

Attending birthing classes at A4 Hospital creates an opportunity to share your thoughts and eradicate fears with others who are in a similar state. These programs are face-to-face sessions.

Our birthing classes are designed in a flexible approach allowing busy parents to enhance their chances of acquiring such education. It is always recommended to book your classes when you enter into your third trimester.

The birthing classes at A4 Hospital are often provided by our well-trained and registered experts in birthing such as nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals. Sometimes, our doulas will also train our patients in the birthing classes.

The topics covered in our birthing classes are:

·       The signs of labor

·       The stages of labor

·       The process of labor and delivery, including anesthesia

·       Importance of healthy food

·       Managing the pain through yoga

·       The responsibility of the support person during labor

·       When to visit the hospital

·       Things to take to the hospital before admission

·       Lactation education

·       Newborn care

Our Birthing Classes Overview

Session 1: Labor and Birth

Apart from the signs of labor, our trainer focuses on educating our patients in all aspects of labor including interventions such as episiotomy instrumental births, and epidurals. The birth support persons are also welcome to attend these sessions. Our trainer also discusses c-sections or cesarean births.

Session 2: Labor Management

This session focuses on pain management and the techniques to help you relieve the pain. Our skilled physiotherapist will join us in this session, teaching some prenatal yoga poses to relieve back pain. Our physiotherapist will also teach some breathing exercises to assist you during labor and delivery. And, we also discuss some various positions that help you in labor.

Session 3: Breastfeeding

This session focuses on the benefits of breastfeeding for both new mom and baby. We also discuss the right position to lactate the newborn, ways to stimulate, feeding patterns, attachment positions, and more. We also talk about the foods that secrete more breast milk. 

Session 4: Life with a Newborn Baby

This session focuses on how to take care of the baby after going home. The topics include sleeping positions, dressing according to the weather, hunger signals, bathing, and so on. We also educate our new parents about how to build a personal attachment with the baby.

During the session, the mom-to-be patients will be given an opportunity to ask their questions along the way.

 

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