500 Federal Street, Suite 200
Troy, New York 12180
Telephone: (518) 270-5540
Fax: (518) 271-0580

 
Childbirth Classes

Childbirth Classes - FREE

A unique 5-week course designed to help prepare teens, young adults and their coaches for the experience of childbirth.  This course includes instruction, demonstration, and practice of comfort measures and relaxation techniques used during labor and delivery.  Classroom experience will be reinforced with helpful educational hand-outs and the viewing of video clips.  The course concludes with a guided hospital tour of a local childbirth center.  Participant should be in her third trimester of pregnancy. 

Class Outline

Brief overview of fetal development and normal discomforts of pregnancy

  • Relaxation techniques, labor coping strategies and comfort measures
  • What is labor--including signs & symptoms
  • Choices in childbirth
  • Local hospital tour of labor & delivery unit

Click Here to Return to Services


©2004-2007 Alight Care Center - Created by no3rdw