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| Welcome to Child Birth Care
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PLEASE NOTE: Child Birth Care will resume it's services in the Spring of 2008.
Child Birth Care is perinatal resource center with an office located in central Washington DC and in Chevy Chase/Bethesda. 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 classes, belly casting.
We also offer a comprehensive postpartum program: infant massage, postpartum 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 and much much more.
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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PLEASE NOTE: ALL OF OUR PRENATAL OFFERINGS WILL COMMENCE IN THE SPRING OF 2008
Prenatal Yoga 4-Week Series
Sundays
Date: TBA
Time: 1:00 - 2:15PM
Wednesdays
Date: TBA
Time: 12:30 - 1:30PM
Cost: Four sessions $60
(individual classes $20 each)
Location: Studio Serenity
2469 18th St. NW. Washington, DC 20009
Childbirth Education Class --
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.
Weekend Intensive:
Dates: TBA
Time: 2:00 - 7:00PM
Cost: $165
4-Weeks Series:
Dates: TBA
Time: 7:00 - 9:00PM
Cost: $195
Location: Studio Serenity
2469 18th St. NW. Washington, DC 20009
HypnoBirthing
An easy relaxation technique that prepares you for a more comfortable and easier birthing experience. Proven effective for thousands of women who have given birth naturally, HypnoBirthing provides you the confidence and resources that you need for your birth to be easier, natural and generally much faster.
Dates: TBA
Time: 2:30 - 4:30PM
Costs: $195 per couple (plus $40 for book and CDs)
$400 for private class
Location: Studio Serenity
2469 18th St. NW. Washington, DC 20009
Infant Massage Class for Moms and Dads!
Date: TBA
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Costs: $35 per family
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 encourged to attend. Connect with your baby on a whole new level!
Private session: $75/60 min
Location: Studio Serenity
2469 18th St. NW. Washington, DC 20009
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
Birth Choices: An Open House Orientation
Come to our Open House evening and meet local birth & postpartum professionals, doulas, learn about their services, fees and offerings and how your labor and birth may benefit from their support.
Date:TBA
Time: 3:00 - 4:30PM
Cost: $25 per person
Location: Studio Serenity
2469 18th St. NW. Washington, DC 20009
Please note our website is constantly updated. Please visit often, watch it grow !
Thank you !
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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.
Active Birth
We advocate an 'active' birth in which the mother is allowed to freely move around during labor because women all over the world in every culture on earth since time immemorial have labored and given birth in an upright position, sitting, kneeling and squatting.
It was relatively recently, only 200 or so years ago, that women gave birth in hospitals and in the 'stranded beetle' position. This position made it convenient for obstetricians to "deliver the baby" but it did not ease the birth process for the mother or the baby. To the contrary: the supine or semi-reclining position can potentially slow down or even stall labor and lead to further complications, interventions and fetal distress.
Modern Obstetrics
Todays increasingly high-tech approaches of modern obstetrics can further discount a woman's natural ability to give birth - sometimes at the expense of mother and child. Birth outcomes are often dictated by insurance companies, hospital policies and routine interventions, instead of the family's birth plan. Parents are frequently confronted with undesired birth outcomes, such as Ceasarean Sections. This can rob parents of some, or all of the transformative power of their birth experience. Many expecting parents yearn to experience birth differently.
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.
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| Can a Doula help me ?
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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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