Childbirth Education Classes:   $295/series

Schedule of Classes

A Brighter Birth classes provide individual attention and are held in the comfortable surroundings of the instructor's home located in the Fan in Richmond, Virginia.

Couples will learn:

• Relaxation, nutrition, and physiology of childbirth
• Positive coaching techniques for labor and birth
• stress control during labor 
• How to be an intelligent consumer of obstetric services, emphasizing positive communication with the birth attendants.

It is the goal of A Brighter Birth for you and your baby to have the best, safest, and most rewarding birth experience possible.  For that reason, A Brighter Birth endorses and teaches the following:

• Natural childbirth
• Active participation by the coach
• Excellent nutrition (the foundation of a healthy pregnancy and labor)
• Avoidance of drugs during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding unless absolutely necessary
• Natural breathing combined with relaxation techniques
• Tuning into and working with your body
• Immediate and continuous contact with your new baby
• Breastfeeding beginning at birth
• Consumerism and positive communications
• Parents taking responsibility for the safety of the birth place, procedures, attendants and emergency back-up
• Informed parents sharing in the making of responsible decisions
• Parents prepared for unexpected situations (such as emergency childbirth or cesarean section)

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