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Your currently 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 class:
1.
Natural Childbirth
2.
Active participation of the partner as coach
3.
Excellent nutrition, the foundation of a healthy
pregnancy
4.
Avoidance of drugs during pregnancy, birth, and
breastfeeding unless absolutely neccessary
5.
Training: Early-bird classes, followed by
weekly classes starting around 4-6 months.
6.
Relaxation and NATURAL breathing
7.
Tuning-in to your body
8.
Immediate and continuous contact with your new baby
9.
Breastfeeding beginning at birth
10.
Consumerism and positive communication
11.
Parents taking responsibility for the safety of the
birth place, procedures, attendants, and emergency back-up
12.
Parents prepared for unexpected situations such as
emergency childbirth, and cesarean section
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These goals are possible for the vast majority of pregnancy
couples. Occasionally medical intervention is necessary and
appreciated. Modern technology is compatible with natural
childbirth. There is an appropriate time for
intervention and an appropriate time to let nature take it's natural course.
Educated parents have the responsibility to make these choices with input from
many sources including the birth team they have chosen. It is
important to eek out medical people who have experience with educated couples
and will support their informed choices. This takes considerable effort
and sometimes requires researching what is available locally or traveling
great distances to seek the safest possible birth.
Your local Bradley Method instructor
is a professional person or couple trained to help pregnant couples obtain the
birth experience they desire. These instructors have gone through
intensive training by the
American
Academy
of Husband-Coached Childbirth and are required to re-affiliate each year in
order to continue teaching the Bradley Method. This insures you a
professional instructor who meets the high continuing education requirements
of the Acadmey. Ask to see your instructor's current certificate of
affiliation.
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