Labor Shared is Labor Spared!
This course prepares you for a lifetime of birth experiences.
You will learn to help women and their families plan their birth.
You will assist in labor, at birth and with early care of mother and baby.
You learn to cope with special situations, such as early labor, inductions, cesarean, vaginal birth after cesarean, multiple births, prolonged labors and more...
The Birth Assistant Training Course does not prepare course participants or
graduates to do medical interventions, to take medical responsibility, or to
make decisions during the birth process. The Birth Assistant Training Course
does not prepare course participants or graduates to teach Birth Education
Classes.
Birth Assistants are para-medical professionals, hired by the
birthing woman and responsible to her.
For your first birth.
Become up-to-date with current and comprehensive information about labor & birth. Learn skills to cope with the birth process. Gain confidence in your pregnant body’s ability to labor and birth. Plan the birth of your choice. This birth preparation course allows you and your partner to anticipate with confidence the process of bringing your baby into the world.
Second birth and beyond
Complete review and update of birthing skills and techniques! Each baby is born only once, so each baby deserves the very best birth!
Having a cesarean is having a baby!
Experience the special joys of your cesarean birth. Learn about the many choices you have. Create a positive attitude for your birth by meeting other expectant cesarean couples. Information about cesarean birth process reduces your anxiety.
Prepare for a VBAC—Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
Your cesarean birth may have been planned or unplanned, positive or disappointing. You want a vaginal birth this time. Create a new, unique opportunity for your VBAC attempt.
Make breastfeeding work!
Your want to breastfeed your baby. Don’t be surprised, breastfeeding is not simple. Breastfeeding is a long process of learning and adjustment. Good information prevents early breastfeeding problems. Breastfeeding is the healthiest for mother and baby.
Babies don’t come with “CARE INSTRUCTIONS” included!
If they did, much of the anxiety that expectant parents feel would be alleviated. Find out what to expect once the baby has arrived! Lots of practical advice, useful ideas and hands-on experience with anatomically correct baby dolls.
Becoming a big brother / sister means change in the family
This is the sweetest class! Big brother and big sister develop pride in their new role in the family arrangement. They begin to understand how the baby gets in and out of the mother. We are not specific! Kids are fascinated by what baby does inside his/her mother.
Your pregnancy test is positive, what now?
This class explores all the issues of pregnancy. inside his/her mother.
Find
out About
Reproductive Anatomy & Physiology /
Conception & Pregnancy /
Prenatal Exercise /
Labor and Birth Process /
Hospital Procedures /
Birth Assistant Skills /
Postpartum Care of Mother /
Newborn Characteristics and Care /
Emergency Childbirth /
Cesarean Birth and VBAC /
Medications /
Hospital Tours /
Birth Class Observations /
Birth Experiences
Course Information
- Start Date: 2nd Sunday of September
- Hours: Sunday mornings 9:30 -12:30
- Duration: twenty 3-hour classes (completed within nine month)
- Optional: nineteen mentor sessions 12:30 -14:00
- Fee: $ 1600 (payable in other currencies)
- Pre-registration: required (limited to 10 participants)
- Instructors: Shoshanna Goldbaum and Joani Abelman
- Course admission procedure: contact us
- Course Requirements: review questions, selected reading, take home and monitored tests, research project & paper
- Diploma awarded upon successful course completion
DISCLAIMER
Birth Israel presents educational information. Birth Israel is non-therapeutic.
Registration and non-refundable deposits may be required. Prices are subject
to change without prior notice. All courses / classes are subject to change
or cancellation without prior notice. Birth Israel restricts class size to minimum
and maximum number of participants. Birth Israel accepts no liability for injury
or accident incurred as a result of participation in its activities.
