Childbirth education

Question 1

Dick Read

Answer 1

Wrote “Childbirth without fear”

Fear –> tension –> pain syndrome of childbirth

Question 2

Lamaze

Answer 2

Training women to breath and relax in response to pain/fear. Based in pavlovian theory of conditioned response. 
6 Birth practices: 
1. Let labor begin on its own
2. Move around and change positions 
3. Have continuous support
4. Avoid interventions
5. Avoid being on your back
6. Keep mother and baby together

Question 3

Bradley

Answer 3

Husband coached childbirth
Added nutrition and exercise to prenatal education. Criticized for not preparing women well for emergencies
1. Teaches families how to have natural birth (avoid pain meds)
2. Techniques based on how human body works in labor
3. Foci: what to expect and how to avoid pains in labor focusing on a healthy pregnancy and the relationships of pregnant women and her support people

Question 4

Leboyer

Answer 4

• wrote “birth without violence”
• Helping mothers and babies make spirit connection at birth, dealing with consciousness of baby
• Baby is born into a warm basin of water in a dark quiet room, slowly lifted out

Question 5

Kitzinger

Answer 5

Promotes birth as empowering sexual psychosocial experience

Question 6

Birthworks

Answer 6

Emphasis on self confidence, trust, faith, education, introspection
*A process, not a method
Belief that every woman has the innate knowledge of how to give birth, she just needs to connect to it

Question 7

ICEA (international Childbirth Educators Association)

Answer 7

Organization supports childbirth educators and other health care providers who have an informed choice orientation that promotes freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives in family-centered maternity and newborn care

Question 8

Hypnobirthing

Answer 8

Maria Mongan
- women learn to get self into a state of self hypnosis/trance in order to release endorphins, be in state of relaxation that decreases fear/tension/pain.

Question 9

Birthing from Within

Answer 9

Pam England

• childbirth as a rite of passage, preparing for childbirth is a self discovery.
• small group of couples do classes together often involving art, massage, aromatherapy, and develop comradery.
• soul searching through activities so labor/birth is a joyous experience
• Parents learn about birth from mother’s, father’s, baby’s and cultural point of view