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"...teaches
natural childbirth and views birth as a natural process. It is our
belief that most women with proper education, preparation, and the
help of a loving and supportive coach can be taught to give birth
naturally.
The Bradley
Method® is a system of natural labor techniques in which a woman
and her coach play an active part. It is a simple method of increasing
self-awareness, teaching a woman how to deal with the stress of
labor by tuning in to her own body. The Bradley Method® encourages
mothers to trust their bodies using natural breathing, relaxation,
nutrition, exercise, and education."
-American
Academy of Husband-Coached Childbirth®
Class
Goals
The
number one goal of the Bradley Method® is a healthy mom and
a healthy baby!
Your affiliated
Bradley® instructor wants you and your baby to have the best,
safest, and most rewarding birth experience possible. For that reason
we endorse and teach the following ideals in classes:
- Natural Childbirth.
- Active participation
of the partner* as coach.
- Excellent
nutrition, the foundation of a healthy pregnancy.
- Avoidance
of drugs during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding unless absolutely
necessary.
- Training:"Early-birth"
classes followed by weekly classes starting in the 5th month,
continuing until birth.
- Relaxation
and NATURAL breathing.
- "Tuning-in"
to your own 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.
- Parents prepared
for unexpected situations such as emergency childbirth and cesarean
section.
*Your coach
does not have to be your partner, but can be anyone whom you trust
and is dedicated to helping you have a safe and joyful birth.
Educated
parents have the responsibility to make these choices themselves.
They also need to seek personnel who have natural childbirth experience
and who will support their choices. This may take considerable effort
and sometimes requires seeking special personnel or traveling great
distances to achieve the safest possible birth.
- American
Academy of Husband-Coached Childbirth®
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