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| Welcome to Child Birth Care
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Child Birth Care is perinatal resource center with an office located in the heart of Washington DC. We offer holistic services to expecting families: from childbirth education classes, prenatal yoga, breastfeeding classes, labor and birth doula services, Hypnobirthing classes, pregnancy massage, infant and newborn care.
We also offer a comprehensive postpartum program: infant massage, postnatal yoga classes, lactation consultation, baby & mom/me yoga, postnatal aerobics, parenting classes, parent support and play groups, postpartum doula support. We have free lending library and audio visuals: videos, CDs, DVDs available for home use.
Child Birth Care is here to help you have a healthy pregnancy, a better birth and to give you and your baby the best possible start in life. In everything we do, our concern is for you to have a wonderful start to creating a loving family. This is the central focus of Child Birth Care.
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| CLASSES AT A GLANCE
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OmMama Yoga
Pre & Postnatal Yoga
Sundays: 2:45-4:00 pm
Fee: $60, drop in $20
Childbirth Education
Our classes help women gain confidence in their ability to give birth, and birth companions become skilled in ways they can make labor safer and more comfortable.
4 Week Series
Wednesday nights: 7-9 pm
Dates: 5/13-6/3
Fee: $195
Infant Massage
Join this fun class and learn how infant massage can help your baby sleep better, naturally relieve digestion, shorten fussy times and stimulate important neuro- muscular development. Dads are strongly encouraged to attend. Connect with your baby on a whole new level!
Sunday: 1:30-3 pm
Date: 5/24
Fee: $35 per family
Class has filled.
HypnoBirthing
HypnoBirthing is an easy to learn deep relaxation technique that prepares you for a more comfortable and easier birthing experience.
Saturdays: 2-4 pm
Dates: 5/16-6/06
Fee: $195
(plus $40 for book and CDs)
Class is full.
Birth Choices: An Open House Orientation
Come to our Open House evening and learn about local birth choices, fees and how your labor and birth may benefit from different offerings. Meet local birth & postpartum professionals, doulas, learn about their services and contracts.
Sunday: TBA
Time: 1:30-3 pm
Fee: $25 per person
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| MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOUR BIRTH
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The transformation from woman to mother is one of the most complex passages a woman will ever make. Physically, emotionally and spiritually a woman is called upon like never before in her life.
How do you prepare for something as unpredictable and vast as giving birth?
Many Choices
Women today have a wide range of choices how they want to give birth, which include both holistic and medical options. Understanding how interventions work, will enable a family to make the best decisions for the health of the mother and for the baby -and to be as active as possible, responsible, empowered and involved in all aspects of the care. When this is the case, your birth is an 'active birth' whether you go through it all naturally, opt for an epidural or have a caesarean.
Our Goal
We strive to provide families with the knowledge and wisdom to recognize when drugs and interventions are needed and how best to use them to minimize any risks or potentially harmful side effects. The goal is to avoid the unnecessary or even "routine" use of drugs and interventions and empower a woman to seek a birthing environment and care team that best suit her personal needs.
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| INTERESTING FACTS
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Studies indicate significantly better outcomes for childbirths when supported by a doula:
50% Reduction in ceasarean-sections
60% Reduction in epidurals
25% Shorter labor
40% Reduction in forceps
30% Reduction in analgesia use
40% Reduction in induced labor
Source:
Klaus, Kennell, and Klaus (1993)
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